GUI for PlasmaC - QtPlasmac

I'm excited to hear what you think.

I really like the clean lines which for my eyes give a good contrast

Couple of comments.
Definitely need a home all button. Thats all I use and is how 2.8 and master are designed to be used. Gmoccappy is annoying here though becasue there are 2 key strokes at top right to turn machine on and then 2 key strokes at bottom left to home all. Keep them close together. It annoys me every time I turn the machine on (which is the only time I home it)

Need to display the voltage set point and buttons to adjust it up and down. I found on material I had not cut before this allowed quick tuning of the set point (which I later used to modify the cut height eg adjustment on the fly of 3 volts meant I changed cut height by 0.3mm)

Don't loose Phill's laser reference buttons. Thats all I use to pick 0,0.

The concept of testing ohmic sensing to trigger the enable relay is going to be obsolete (it is for me now) with hyper sensing with a THCAD-5.

Need a decent size button to accept MDI input. Gmocappy is woeful in this area with a tiny tick which is too small to use on a touch screen and thats what its designed for. I often select an earlier entered line and can't enter it without a mouse.

I don't understand why we are wasting screen real estate for a spindle and associated tools on a plasma machine. If you must retain it, put it on a secondary tab that is not displayed by default.

I think the onscreen estop/machine on probably needs to be retained to keep Linuxcnc happy. If you do hit estop, you need to hit a screen button to confirm its been cleared to continue.

I'm sure I missed a lot!

I personally prefer the colour scheme in V1. to V2 as I find it easier to read.

snowgoer540 wrote:

rodw wrote:

I don't understand why we are wasting screen real estate for a spindle and associated tools on a plasma machine. If you must retain it, put it on a secondary tab that is not displayed by default.

Are you commenting on my concept specifically, or the Plasmac GUI in general? Just ask because I didnt have any spindle stuff on my concept.

On both. I did not see the laser reference on yours.

I am way late here so I may have missed some points.

1. How is the machine taken out of or E-stopped?
2. How are the axis/machine homed?
3. How are the work piece offsets entered?
4. What about the reverse run? This is a very use full feature for cutting error recovery!

High contrast and brightness rule for old guys.

John

snowgoer540 wrote:

Clive wrote:

I personally prefer the colour scheme in V1. to V2 as I find it easier to read.

Please take a look again and see if you still find it hard to read, I suspect some of that was due to it being a screen shot, and not the real deal.

Yes that is much better and is good but my preference is V1 because for me the yellow around the boxes stands out.

I personally don't like touch screens.

I am no commenting on the content as I think that is for the pro's that do it for a living .

I do hope this will get finished Thanks for the work you are putting into it.