RiceCNC 3.20.22
Device: Mac OS
Category: Business
Price: $29.99, Version: 3.18.22 -> 3.20.22 (iTunes)
Description:RiceCNC is a system for controlling Computer Numeric Control (CNC) milling machines having a low level step/direction or discrete stepper motor drive interface. Because USB delays prevent direct motor stepping, this integrated hardware/software solution uses an intermediate micro-processor board to relieve the host computer and USB interface of real-time considerations.An inexpensive ($26.95) Digilent "Chipkit" UNO32 µP board is available from Newark element14 or directly from Digilent. The high end 32 bit µP has impressive performance capable of micro-stepping four or more motors concurrently at high audio frequency while interpolating linear and cubic bezier paths with double precision at a rate of 500 times a second.The required UNO32 firmware is included in the application package. A companion product, the "Uno32-DB25 Connection Kit" is available on eBay that provides cables and connectors facilitating easy interconnection of the UNO32 with a typical motor driver board having a 25 pin parallel input, e.g., HobbyCNC and MaxNC. It also enables connection to relays and driver boards having current-loop inputs, e.g., CW230.The app supports interactive jog, run, linear, circular and drill cycle coordinated movement for simple machining operations. Multi-touch trackpad dragging can be configured to control continuous jogging such as to follow a pencil line.For more complex and repeatable operations, the app supports CNC programs using a subset of the RS-274 (G-Code) dialect with many extensions for program control, cubic bezier curves and readability.
What's New
Adds polar coordinate mode (G codes 15 and 16). Adds Grand Central Dispatch multi-threading to improve host software performance. Program modals sheet changed to table layout.
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