Professional machinist GUI

I probably dont understand how the releases and source is structured. I was under the impression the 2.6-pre was just available as source and one builds it in your own RIP location.
If I want to use Gscreen, I would need the 2.6 source. Is it available as a package or do I have the cat by the tail here?

andypugh wrote:

I am not entirely sure I would want to be installing any development branch on a customer machine.

Neither would I, but I have to start development of a custom setup and when I saw the Gscreen stuff, it looked to be the right way to go. So hopefully the release will happen by the time I am ready with the machine.

What is the time schedule for new releases if any?

I use the development version on customers machines without problems , all tested beforehand of course
for the same reason , I wish to use gscreen .

I just don't upgrade the customers machine and turn all updates off afterwards
I keep a customer build version separate from my full development , so it's quite easy to keep track of any problems before it happens

This is a pretty good way of doing it (if master has features you need). In fact that is really how the major releases are done.
eg 2.6 will be whatever master is when the time comes then master will continue to develop while 2.6 will get stabilized and bug fixes.
At least in theory - the last time 2.5 got a lot of new features added and there was no official stabilizing period. Anyways it seems to work out.

By and large Master stays pretty stable. So if you grab a snapshot and just use it and only update if there is a bug to fix, your pretty safe.
It seems enough people actually use master that bug reports come in fairly quickly. For instance I just fixed a bug i introduced in AXIS because a user pointed it out to us. (metric display was wrong).

Gscreen will never officially be introduced into the 2.5 series. It will be in the 2.6 series and that is a long way off I bet - unfortunately there isn't even a rough guide line for releases - bug fixes or major.

Chris M

most likely. Are you using master? the fix has been pushed already.

The dro is wrong in metric mode but the machine tracks properly.

Tthe goal for this is to have a GUI that operators/machinest can use with little to no training not to make everyone happy. You can never make everyone happy. I have chosen a few guys here operators and machinest that i show and disucss these things with I dont talk to everyone in the shop.

I have added some closeups of the Haas control plus.google.com/photos/10704930871463576.../5818585863458903217