Yeah - I guess as a someone who considers my machining "non professional", I've never even really consider GRBL for a machine because "running G code" and "running a mill/router/lathe" feel like different categories. the lack of a reasonable GUI and access to the configurations and macros to handle things like tool changes etc. has never made me interested in GRBL. (I've only ever played with GRBL in the context of a router that needed to be run by UGS) and that felt so limited as to be useless.
That said, I'm on the brink of converting both my mill and router from UCCNC to Centroid just to be into some software that is more "machine operator aware" meaning that it offers more features targeting making my life easier as an operator, rather than simply running gcode in a machine-agnostic way.
G41,G68, S curve acceleration, and basic things for parking positions, pause, resume, single block, separate feed rate and rapid rate overrides, etc. Those would be pretty basic and important. Also, good gui driven probing routines, TLO calculators, and a sane tool library.
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Yeah - I guess as a someone who considers my machining "non professional", I've never even really consider GRBL for a machine because "running G code" and "running a mill/router/lathe" feel like different categories. the lack of a reasonable GUI and access to the configurations and macros to handle things like tool changes etc. has never made me interested in GRBL. (I've only ever played with GRBL in the context of a router that needed to be run by UGS) and that felt so limited as to be useless.
That said, I'm on the brink of converting both my mill and router from UCCNC to Centroid just to be into some software that is more "machine operator aware" meaning that it offers more features targeting making my life easier as an operator, rather than simply running gcode in a machine-agnostic way.
which features are the ones that interest you?
G41,G68, S curve acceleration, and basic things for parking positions, pause, resume, single block, separate feed rate and rapid rate overrides, etc. Those would be pretty basic and important. Also, good gui driven probing routines, TLO calculators, and a sane tool library.
i see, thanks! i wouldn't have guessed those at all