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Centroid CNC Email News August 2024
USB-BOB is now on sale! The Centroid USB-BOB operator control interface board is now available with CNC12 Beta Software
Regular Price $339 Early adopter special $299 Purchase Here!
Check out the USB-BOB User Manual here.
Also check out these community videos from our Forum users to see the USB-BOB in action!
Watch the USB-BOB Mill video here!
Watch the USB-BOB Lathe video here!
Centroid Performance Racing made the cover of August's PRI Magizine
Read the PRI August edition here!
Centroid CNC12 v5.19 rev3 BETA CNC software is now available for public testing for use with Acorn, AcornSix, Hickory, Allin1DC, Oak and MPU11
1.) Hickory now has a Centroid CNC Setup Wizard (Very similar to the popular Acorn and AcornSix Wizard)
2.) USB-BOB support in CNC12 and the Wizard (Acorn, AcornSix and Hickory)
3.) New CNC Router specific CNC software for Acorn, AcornSix and Hickory
4.) Plasma CNC12 software and THC hardware now available for use with AcornSix and Hickory!
5.) Hickory CNC controller Support for Clearpath EC EtherCat servo motors
6.) Improved G code backplot with added features such as Travel Limit, Work Envelope, Spindle Position indicators
7.) Hardware pairing with Autosquaring “canned” support added to the Acorn and AcornSix Wizard.
8.) G64 smoothing added to Lathe CNC12
9.) Language file improvements such as the ability to relabel the CNC12 Function keys
10.) Added ability to “link” the Rapid and Feedrate Override control for both on one control and unlink them with a button push.
11.) Spindle Speed Variation now available as standard feature
12.) Added C axis setup to the Lathe CNC setup Wizard
More info about v5.19 here.
https://centroidcncforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=67&t=10491
Uwe Mattern shares how he performed a rotary engraving job on an angle
Link to engraving thread:
https://centroidcncforum.com/viewtopic.php?p=90387#p90387
Tamar Bar posted this Video showing his Centroid Acorn based CNC Fiber LASER tube cutting machine
Check out the Plasma Rotary video here!
Video: Centroid’s Interactive Conversational Part Programming “Intercon” vs. Fusion 360 by Uwe Mattern
Check out the Fusion vs Acorn video here!
Sean Beres reports, "The Centroid CNC First mill was putting in a heavy days work today, machining some 8x8 plates! Definitely knows how to make a huge mess but I've been immensely impressed with its performance"
Check out the Knee Mill photo gallery here!
Avid, New Controls “Unofficial” Launch
Eric at Avid writes:
I’m calling this the “unofficial launch” announcement because we’re still finishing up our media, documentation, and final preparations to ship these things. I thought you folks here on the forum would appreciate a bit of a sneak preview of what’s coming up, and to answer some of your questions.
With that let’s get into what we did: We swapped our entire controller lineup from Mach 4 and the Ethernet Smoothstepper to Centroid’s Acorn control system 13. This has been a HUGE undertaking for us that has consumed every corner of this company.
Read More here! And check out the videos below:
Watch the AVID Touch Plate video here.
Watch the AVID WMPG video here.
Watch the AVID Plasma EX video here.
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