CNC: Tool Offsets, Coordinate Systems, Confusion

[EasyTarget]

IF we are making suggestions here; this is mine. I do a lot of manual jogging when making PCB's etc. The ESP3D derived jog control panel on my esp32 based controllers webUI is excellent; heartily recommended, very intuitive to use.

The blue buttons at the right are Macros, the little buttons beside the machine position are for zeroing individual or all axes. Per-axis homing is also supported and has proved handy on occasions.
Not shown is how each concentric ring is a different amount; and a clear animation hilights exactly what you are about to click on, and what it does.

This is slightly out of date; the latest version shows machine as well as workspace position, I like having the macro editor right there in the panel too.
I just switched to using this after using the jog controls in LaserWeb a lot; those are similar layout to the Duet WebUI, easier to mis-click, I do have some foundation for preferring the bullseye approach.

[Ryan Lock]

@EasyTarget Thanks for the suggestions, i will take them all on board. I have had a few other people prefer the bullseye approach to jogging as well. I have stuck with the current Duet Web Control jogging in our control to speed up production. But definitely something for the future. I have also got a lot of request for keyboard jogging.

[EasyTarget]

@Ryan-Lock said in CNC: Tool Offsets, Coordinate Systems, Confusion:

I have also got a lot of request for keyboard jogging.

Listen to those requests! It's something on my wish-list too.

[Ryan Lock]

@EasyTarget Haha i will figure it out

[droftarts]

When Adrian Bowyer was developing the first firmware for the Duet, I tried to get him to put a bullseye similar to Pronterface's into RepRapFirmware, to make it easier for people transitioning from Pronterface! Never happened...

Ian