great to hear! Can someone do a video of the Touchy interface with all the new
features please?
Paul
- Original Message -
From: Chris Radek
Date: Sunday, April 1, 2012 12:09 pm
Subject: [Emc-users] RELEASED: LinuxCNC 2.5.0
To: emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net
>
> LinuxCNC 2.5.0 is released!
>
> You will not get an automatic update from EMC 2.4 to LinuxCNC
> 2.5.
> To update your Lucid or Hardy machine to 2.5, you need to take a few
> steps, documented here:
>
> http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?UpdatingTo2.5
>
> Be sure to check the "Changes to your configuration" section at the
> bottom of the page.
>
> (I also updated the LinuxCNC Live CD to contain 2.5.0 and to receive
> updates from the new 2.5 repository, but the easiest and fastest way
> to update an existing install is definitely to follow the instructions
> above. The updated CD will be available sometime later today.)
>
> I want to give my very sincere thanks to everyone who has contributed
> to this release. All of you who have contributed to
> documentation,translations, rebranding, new features, and
> bugfixes should be proud,
> and I appreciate you all.
>
> Also I want to especially thank Seb K, who traveled many hours
> and has
> been working with me tirelessly for almost three days solid to
> get the
> final glitches out of the rebranding, packaging, and release process.
>
> Some of the most important changes in 2.5.0 are:
>
> * AXIS: dynamic tabs can embed other applications,
> including virtual
> control panels
> * AXIS: make the gcode readout resizable
> * AXIS: many speedups in preview generation
> * AXIS: new OpenGL preview with antialiased fonts
> * AXIS: optional blending in the program preview can make
> very complex
> programs easier to see
> * AXIS: prompt when homing a joint that's already homed
> * AXIS: Selectable tool touch off to workpiece or fixture
> * AXIS: show all offsets and rotation separately in the
> BIG DRO
> * AXIS: show G5x and G92 offsets graphically in the preview
> * AXIS: user-configurable MDI history file
> * AXIS: A comment (AXIS,notify,message) will print
> "message" when the
> preview is generated, instead of just at run-time.
>
> * Configs: many configuration updates for Smithy machines
> * Configs: update motenc sample configs for encoder index
> * Configs: add filtering (image-to-gcode etc) to hostmot2
> samples * Configs: univpwm sample uses new encoder
> velocity for pid
>
> * GladeVCP: a new framework for making virtual control
> panels with the
> Glade screen designer
>
> * Gremlin: AXIS's program preview is now separated out as
> gremlin, for use with GladeVCP/Touchy/etc.
>
> * HAL: fix rare problem with freqgen output getting stuck "on"
> * HAL: gearchange component: support up to 32 gears
> * HAL: make commanded (unaffected by spindle override)
> spindle speed
> available on a pin, for gear selection etc.
> * HAL: make limit3 parameters into pins
> * HAL: new axis.N.motor-offset pins can be used to detect
> position loss
> between homings
> * HAL: new component bldc_sine: commutation for BLDC with
> encoder feedback
> * HAL: new mux16 component
> * HAL: new time comp, which converts seconds to hr/min/sec
> * HAL: new watchdog component
> * HAL: remove deprecated hal_m5i20 driver
> * HAL: new component for ShuttleXpress USB jog dongle
> * HAL: support names= options for encoder_ratio,
> sim_encoder, at_pid, siggen
> * HAL: a new component, message, to display user messages
> from HAL
> * HAL: a new component, multiswitch, to toggle through
> bits with one button
>
> * Halshow: add menu with load/save/exit
> * Halshow: fix the tree to not cut off after a certain depth
>
> * HAL: standardize on maximum hal name length
>
> * HALUI: allow direct-value input to spindle and feed
> overrides and
> max velocity
> * HALUI: handle the situation better when many command
> inputs change
> simultaneously
>
> * Hostmot2: fix a rare problem in stepgen mode setting
> * Hostmot2: fix stepgen moving VERY slowly when it should
> have been
> stopped
> * Hostmot2: handle failed card registration better
> * Hostmot2: support for multiplexed encoders like on the 7i48
> * Hostmot2: support for onboard diagnostic LEDs
> * Hostmot2: support for three phase PWM
> * Hostmot2: improve watchdog reliability and defaults
>
> * Interpreter: fixes to always use . for a decimal, no
> matter the locale
> * Interpreter: fix G83 peck retract to match fanuc
> * Interpreter: fix G98/G99 to match fanuc retract planes
> behavior * Interpreter: fix "run from line" when the start
> line is between a
> sub definition and its call
> * Interpreter: give correct errors when rotary axes are
> commanded to
> move in canned cycles
> * Interpreter: improve arc endpoint radius-mismatch error
> checking * Interpreter: maintain G5x and G92 of
