Using Path Pilot for CNC Upgrades

Have you looked at qtdragon recently?
linuxcnc.org/docs/devel/html/gui/qtdragon.html
My bug report was resolved with a workaround in 24 hours this week.
Nice modern interface, choice of probing, VFD spindle support

And today after a couple of weeks Debian fobbed me of on an issue i raised for our community reminding me they offered no warranty.

Linuxcnc is one of the few open source applications that is not subsidised by a closed source supported version and it shows. Its a great shame.
The speed with which technology is changing where upstream issues overtakes us is a bit alarming...

HIYA Rod, Couple of questions about QTDragon. Does it use hotkeys. IS the screenset editable.

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Yes the screenset is editable using qtdesigner. cmorley, one of the developers has spent all day for me fixing some bugs in the embeddable panel handling I found.. After that, I managed to get a panel built. Still got a lot to do about formatting. Working with panels seperates your customisation from the core code so its maintained for you. But I thought this is not a bad start in one day. 
 
It does have a few hotkeys but remember its designed for touch screens so they are not needed. I think context sensitive pop up keyboards can also be enabled.
Hopefully I'll get this connected up tomorrow and one last issue with the spindle fixed. My probe should arrive later in the week.

 

Thanks for all the great replies! I partially made this thread because I knew people were visiting Tormach for the LinuxCNC meetup. 

I have used other interfaces and the Tormach interfaces while pointed at their machines are very slick and it is easy to find videos online for users. Plus a VMC is a VMC a lathe is a Lathe. So, what machine it was designed for doesn't really matter unless you want to get to a really big machine.

I have purchased a USB drive from Tormach and used it on personal machines, but not any customer machines. I usually GMOCcapy which works but is missing features and feels kind of dated. I have also used Probe Basic as well but had issues with new hardware getting some of the components to work. I had to build from source and it is a hard no go using an arm controller. I'll look at QTDragon see how it goes.

CNC4Life wrote:

 I usually GMOCcapy which works but is missing features and feels kind of dated. I have also used Probe Basic as well but had issues with new hardware getting some of the components to work. 

Yes, I tried to go with probe basic as I know a couple of their team quite well. But in the end, it just was not workable for me on my hardware. I had a look at qtdragon and their recent developments were pretty gobsmacking. Chris (cmorley) has been fantastic and has fixed a couple of bugs I found and has been very patient teaching me how to congigure a custom panel. I think the next person needing a custom panel will find it much easier than I did with the changes made. Hopefully, my GUI will be finished in the next couple of days and then a 1080p panel monitor on order should finish it off.

I have used gmoccappy in the past with a touch screen and a 21 inch monitor. I was frustrated by the distance your habd had to travel on startup (power on, home all etc) as controls were so far away and often on different tabs. I think qtdragon on a 1080p monitor will be the standard moving forward and knock axis off its perch...

 

Is the QTdragon available as a complete install or do you have to build it from scratch.

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