gSender 1.5.0-Edge-7 looks good at first glance, various UI improvements. Running on my house Mac (no CNC connection) so canāt do much beyond browse the UI and menus for now.
Opened a gcode file that has rotary (A-axis) and the visualiser has not populated - might be because I have no machine connected. However, a warning popped up saying āfile contains Rotary, you must enable Rotary modeā - I cannot do this, nor do I want to. My machine is permanent 4-axis, so there is no valid swapping of Y axis to perform A function - that would in fact be harmful to my machine.
[Edit: hadnāt noticed āfeather modeā in visualiser was on. Turned this off (greyed out) and the 3D file opened without giving the above mentioned error]
I will install this -7 Edge on my workshop Mac tomorrow and see if the same behaviour is there with the CNC connected (grblHAL, USB connect, Franken-OKO, permanent 4-axis XYYZA with proximity sensors on XYYZ and A, self-aligning YY during homing, spindle, coolant/mister)
@AndyCXL FWIW, I have the Vortex closed loop version on a Mk1 with the SLB. In gSender, I do not use rotary mode. I use 4 axis mode. Like yours, my machine has all 4 axes live all the time.
If it hasnāt been requested yet, could we PLEASE have a setup option to allow screen blanking?
I am currently fighting with Windows to let me edit the file that controls this functionality. Every time a new version lands, I have to re-learn (yeah I am old and forget things) how to get gSender to blank the screen..
Just to be clear, I am talking about screen blanking and not suspension or anything else.
Does Edge have the ability to turn the spindle off when you pause a job? will the spindle startup again when the job is resumed
You can do this in Pause/Resume automations (in both Edge and main) with the caveat that pause events change pause behaviour (we canāt simply immediately feed hold because we need to be able to send the event code so it stops sending but completes the planning buffer vs holding immediately if thereās no event)
Would very much like to test it, but [gSender-1.5.0-Edge-7-arm64.AppImage does not run on may Raspberry Pi 5. It just does nothing. What am i doing wrong?
Maybe I am missing something. What is the reason that there is not a toggle switch to change between inches and mm on the main page where the visuzalizer and jog dials are? It seems that you still have to go to the settings page to do that.
I have encountered that gSender Edge 7 keeps asking me to unlock the job at the top of the screen while the job is running. Iāve had this happen numerous times in a job.
What are the minimum requirements to run gSender Edge 7 on a Mac computer?