A Widescreen Blender-Style Interface

If what I might have done so far will mean anything, then let me finish what I started. I Have to be done with this in a month or two, and I am leaning toward finishing in less than one.

Tommylight, are you not asking one contributor to circumvent another?
If I have an issue, it's not with the level of compliment paid, it is about common respect.

If people go around me, when my proposal is 7:11 done, it may send a message to others, that a LinuxCNC contributor should not ask for the opinions of others, should not be considerate of the needs of the users.

Thank you, Tommy.

My wish is to continue making the the few remaining menus, and submit my proposal to the LinuxCNC community, before forks from the my designs are counter proposed. It is also my wish to lead this design until then. There is a difference between a suggestion and a counter-proposal, and there will be plenty of time for those after I am done. When I am done, I won't even defend this design. In fact, I likely won't be able to work on it.

People comment on how the interface looks, well I've merged a lot of ideas. I've come up with a way of displaying a few controls. One of those has only been improved upon recently.

I feel that the strongest thing I bring here: is just taking the time to come up with an interface as a system, and that has taken time. In the end, the programmers will have to make changes. If I am successful, this will not be the last interface in this series, but I strongly feel that it would be to LinuxCNC's advantage to have a complete outline before writing or in this case programing the book.

I think that the most time-efficient way to do things: is to already know what to do, and if what I will propose what to do is not the right thing to do, then why not let me show you the pitfalls.

Perhaps, when the drawings are done, there could be two sets of milling diagrams: one for automatic tool changers that reference what need to, and one that references the collet, or what-have-you for use in manual mills.

I am sure that it's just a newbe thought, I wondered if a user could use the extra variables in the table for something.

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Andy, nice power draw bar setup. Is the tool held in there by a spring, and the air just opens it

Oddly, I am familiar with them. There's a few in the fine axis, a few pages pack on this thread.
It's good to see people make something other than landmines from them.

This is a progress report:
Most of the menus are laid out. There are machine controls for Torches and Mills, as well. There are overlay panels for Large Screen, Keyboard, and Large jog.

What's left to design: 2 menus and a few tweaks.
* Setting Menu: Next on the list for most user settings, such as increments, paths, and choosing a plugin. This menu will only be a rough guide as the programmer(s) will be able to include often-used settings here.
* Machine Menu, may have controls for HAL-related things, as Halscope and Halmeter.
* Plug-In, not much to do, this menu will only display whatever the plug-in will do with either 1/3 or 2/3 of the screen, not much to do.
* Help Menu, there not much to do as it will just display a help file.

Some tweaks:
* Remove PyCAM button. Too much will have to be done to Pycam for integration in this version, perhaps the next.
* Add copy/cut and paste buttons, and a few User buttons on MDI. There's room for them, might as well.
* Check Probe and Tool Menu.

Notes:
* For something like NCam, it could either 1/3 or 2/3 or, most of the screen--except the machine-specific controls on the right. The probe menu is also large, and the largest the design supports.

I've read a lot of your feedback, and am trying my best to do the best I can for LinuxCNC. Thank you to Lcvette for making the great looking lathe tool. Thank you for your patience, help, feedback, and support.

(For those with large monitors, the thumbnail image is in 4K. The interface itself was designed for 1920x1080 widescreen, and above.)