I have been using NCPlot v2 beta 24 a lot the last few days and I love it. I have an older CNC lathe and I prefer to write g-code for it by hand. There is not a lot of memory in my Fanuc controller but it has some nice canned cycles that make the job easy and Scott has added some of them into the beta 24, thanks. My lathe does not have any graphics option either.
I am having a hard time finding anything to fault in the beta 24. It works so well. I write a few lines of code and look at the plot, then I write a few lines more and check the plot again. Plotting can be done many ways. I find the F7 and F8 keys to be the most useful of all. Their functionality is not the same as the plot tool bar counterparts in a very important way, they auto repeat if you hold the key down! It is just like using the animate push button except the animate delay parameter does not kick in (BTW, I think it should).
I find the plot tool bar to be a little small and so I am going to preset the following alternative concept for Scott to consider;
* break the plot tool bar into three tool bars and increase the size of the buttons by 300%. Make it so that the new tool bars can be docked anywhere on the page, particularly at the bottom of the graphics window.
* update the icons to be standardized, see below, I only modifided the icons shape, I did not make them any bigger.
I know my tool bar graphics idea could be more modern and 3D enticing but I suck at art.
Cheers
Dave