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martin2250 / GrblHeightProbe2

PCB autolevelling toolchain for GRBL based CNCs
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Suggestions #25

Open intensite opened 8 years ago

intensite commented 8 years ago

Hello, I tried your amazing software for the first time today after watching the 2 videos on Youtube. If you permit, I would like to make recommendations to improve ease of use for newbies with little gcode experiences.

1- A soft reset button, since GRBL produce alarms and sometime even $X will not reset. It is impossible (at least I don't know how) to send CTRL-X on the console prompt. 2- A reset Zero button (working position) aka G92 X0 Y0 Z0 3- This one might be a bit too much but, a set of jog buttons in relative coordinate would have saved me a drill bit when, while being well above the work surface, I sent a z-5 command without specifying G91 prior to.

Thanks again

martin2250 commented 8 years ago

Hi, thanks for the suggestions. I generally try to keep the interface of (at least this) program as slim as possible. I find myself barely using straight G91X0Y0Z0 but instead some odd coordinates. I had a better idea: I'm currently working on a full blown GCode Sender (like UGS) with autolevelling integrated, I'll make the text showing the current position editable. Also both other suggestions will be implemented there, but I don't know when I'll have time to work on either (currently pretty busy at university)