I was wonder if Avid has ever considered placing a countdown timer on the Graph interface?
There’s plenty of room on the left side.
I just think it would be helpful to have a time reference at-a-glance.
Any thoughts on this for future updates?
There’s an “elapsed time” when running a G code job, and when you graph there’s a time estimate, it’s in the very top in the GRAPH menu
I’ve seen the elapsed time in the GRAPH screen but after the job has started and is running, it’s not displayed in the Graph screen. What am I missing?
@corbin is looking into to a countdown timer.
Working on some runtime info.. - Centroid Community CNC Support Forum
Right now, CNC12 will give a fairly accurate estimate of how long the run takes (as Eric mentions), you can see where the job is on the screen as it runs, and you do the math in your head.
When the machine is idle press Graph from the main screen. There is a time for the job there at the top.
When you’re running a job there is an elapsed time on the screen
Yeah! I’m on vacation for a little while, but I hope to finish up the timer when I get back home. The source in my repository is up to date and can be built with Visual Studio.
I had this on my mach4 screen, and it was very helpful to keep track of bigger jobs.
Would be nice to have something similar on CNC12.
Yeah Jim, that’s what I ended up doing, in a little always on top window. Did you get Visual Studio installed? You can compile and run the app.
No, i haven’t done anything in the way of updates to my cncA12 environment, I have been too busy lately.
I’m also a little leary of having yet another unattached app in the environment. We already have cnc12 which is kinda locked in there as a fixed size and not minimizable, then the VCP which is a fixed size, but minimizable. Is there any way to run cnc12 within another shell so that we could have space for cnc12, the VCP, and then some space for user customizable apps that use the API? Then make that whole parent shell minimizable?
Or are you using multiple desktops? Or maybe a 4k monitor os the best way to have some extra screen space since cnc12 seams to be a fixed mumber of pixels? I’m just getting tired of the messy desktop this all creates.
If you have multiple monitors you can set CNC12 to be on a particular screen
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That’s going to be on the menu of “must have” and to-do’s list! Thanks!
Getting ready to buy another monitor. What is the preferred resolution or mode (i.e., 16:9) to display the CNC12? Anything in particular that I need to be aware of?
16x9 and a native resolution of 1920x1080. No need to go more as CNC12 won’t use it. Ref: CENTROID CNC control CNC PC Performance requirements
I have this touch screen monitor and paid ~$275 last November. It is a perfect touchscreen monitor and IP54 rated for dust exposure as a bonus. Looks like this particular one isn’t available, but if a similar model is I would highly recommend it. I have a second almost identical monitor from Philips for my acorn/CNC12 dedicated laser system also.
Good idea on the touch screen and IP54 specs. I’ll keep an eye out for something similar.