v2.5.0

Z raise at end of homing sequence

SmartBenches manufactured from June 2023 will have a slightly different Z Head configuration. 

Raising the Z Head at the end of the homing sequence ensures that all users can immediately access the spindle motor clamping crossbolt, without having to do a manual move. 

Patches

• The Z height widget in the Shape Cutter app has been updated to stop it from appearing outside of the widget's limits.

• If you successfully manage to load a file with more than 10 million lines, the Console will show a specific error message. 

• If the YetiPilot popup is still open at the end of a job, it will now close itself.

• "YetiPilot is disabled" widget on the go screen would change to "failed health check" after the job had started; this has now been patched.

• Fix for jobs that contained LED commands causing GCode errors

• Patch for SmartManager showing total job time. 

• Fixed infinite 'Please wait' popup when USB stick does not contain update file.

• Having Pro + health check enabled would have still triggered a health check if a user had loaded an SC1 spindle motor or stylus. This has now been patched. 

• Empty checkbox image changed from light to dark blue, and has been made bolder so that it shows up clearly. 

Technical

General

• Refactoring of set dollar setting functions

• Refactoring of set datum functions

• General info, error, and warning pop ups can now be dismissed by clicking off of them.

• Updated build steps (for Windows) and added a requirements.txt file for all the dependencies.

• GRBL settings bake will adjust settings based on firmware version and motor currents (and throw an error if this is not possible)

Patches

• When getting the list of latest releases, the software no longer assumes that a beta release exists in the 10 latest releases, to avoid an unwanted exception.

Added functionality to job data module

• Store persistent information about cancelled jobs.

• Functionality to scrape GCode lists and get position and modes at any point in the list.

Set up of screens for job scrape testing

• GRBL line selection screen.

• Nudge screen to make minor adjustments in X and Y.

Integrated production tools

• Reduced warm-up for ZHQC and LBQC to 1 min 30 instead of 30 minutes.

• Raised lower temperature threshold for calibration by 10 degrees (after removing warm-up).

• Added automatic reset when entering calibration in ZHQC.

• Added digital spindle test button to factory screen.

• Ensure that all spindle speed tests also automatically detect and account for 110V spindles (including those in ZHQC)

• Set up ZHQC bake GRBL settings functions and ZHQC Z Head cycle functions to accommodate shorter ZH cage ($132=130.0)

• Adapt final test so that it works for ZH cages with $132=130

• Shorten initial wear-in time for overnight test to 2 hours (based on 1 year of data)

• General UX improvements in factory screen

Technical notes

Git tag: v2.5.0

Official release name:

Git commit:  3c457d5