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Change Log A log of what changed with each new version from newest to oldest. Remember, G-Wizard tells you when you need to upgrade with a message in the top right corner of the screen. If you need the latest version, it can be installed from this page. Updates to this page are generally only made on the more major releases. Detailed notes on intermediate releases are available on the CNCCookbook User's Club forums.
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1/1/12: Release 1.621 Release 1.621 is a bug fix release: - Fixed a bug where the install link sometimes wouldn't appear on mandatory releases. - Fixed some bugs associated with saving or accessing ballnose and other non-standard geometries in the Cut KB. - G-Wizard now rechecks the server whenever you change your login. Older versions sometimes required you to exit and restart to force it to check with the server. In addition, two minor things were added: - The smallest Surface finish on the scallop height ballnose calculator was reduced from 0.0001" to 0.00001". - We added EN45 and 9260 spring steels to the Materials DB by request. 1/1/12: Release 1.620 Release 1.620 is a minor feature and bug fix release: - Renamed "Cap Screw" tab to be "Fasteners" under "Quick Reference". - Added 2 new columns to "Fasteners" database that lists the drill size for normal fit and close fit. - Added buttons that appear for the flat head cap screws that will take you to the chamfer calculator with parameters already filled out for depth and angle. - Fixed a bug where the Geometry menu did not display the correct choices in the Cut KB and Tool Crib. - Fixed a bug where exporting the Cut KB to a .csv file sometimes gave errors. - Fixed a bug where going from "Normal" to "Rigid" actually was slowing down feeds and speeds for ballnose and other geometries. 12/18/11: Release 1.611 Release 1.611 is a bug fix release. 12/4/11: Release 1.610 Release 1.61 fixes some bugs in the V-Bit support and adds Dovetail cutter Feeds and Speeds. 11/23/11: Release 1.603 Release 1.603 is a bug fix and fit and finish release: - Updated some areas on the Cut Optimizer and Setup to be in metric. - Eliminated the optimization button from Cut Optimizer. It will automatically recalc if you change any parameter on the popup. - You can now see how many HP your G-Wizard Lite subscription will be able to handle in the Setup About box. If you subscribe to G-Wizard, you automatically get an additional GW Lite HP for each year of subscription you purchase in G-Wizard. If you let the GW subscription lapse, the product will still operate as GW Lite, but it will be restricted in the amount of HP it can calculate for a cut. - Extended the timeout on the calls back to our Cloud so that it is less likely GW will complain of needing a connection in cases where the connection is just slow. 11/5/11: Release 1.601 Release 1.601 is a bug fix release. The spindle power interpolation wasn't quite right. I also added a direct EXE download for Windows users to bypass the installer for those whose popup blocker interferes. 10/30/11: Release 1.600 Release 1.600 is a feature release: - Added a new tool type for lathes: Parting/Grooving. Nothing too special here, just support for a very common operation on lathes. The hints will remind you that you can run OD grooving (not parting) a little bit faster than ID grooving. - Reworked the adjustments to spindle HP and added a new type. You now have 3 choices: - No Adjustment: Use the peak power at all times. - Weight Adjusted: Look at the machine's envelope and weight and de-rate lighter weight machines. Folks with small machines like Taigs, Sherlines, and the smallest Siegs report this helps a lot. - Power Curve Adjusted. You may model a power curve with one peak. Set Low RPM to the lowest rpm your spindle can do, Low HP to the HP (or KW for metric users) at that RPM, Peak RPM to the rpm of your machine's peak power, Peak HP to the amount of power available at the peak, High RPM to the spindle's fastest rpm, and High HP to the HP at the High RPM. G-Wizard will then interpolate the available HP Limit based on the rpm selected in feeds and speeds. This is helpful on single speed machines with very peaky power curves. If you have more than one speed, you could try a different machine profile for each speed. - Added Aluminum 6082 in O, T4, T451, T6, and T651 conditions to the Materials DB. Also added FX-XTRA from A Finkl to the Materials DB. - Fixed a bug in the ballnose scallop calculator where it was being way to conservative on calculated stepover. Thanks Kvom! 9/18/11: Release 1.550 Release 1.550 is a feature release: - The major new feature is the "Notebook" tab under QuickRef. Notebooks let you bring in your own reference information to G-Wizard so it'll be handy. By default, every notebooks has a link to CNCCookbook's home page, the Doc Page for the software, and the Release Notes for the software. You add your own files or download data from our list. Initially, Notebooks support web pages, CSV files, and .txt (Notepad) files. - Initial data available for download to your notebook includes: Imperial and Metric O-Rings, Shaft and Keyway Standards, and Split Lockwashers in Inch Sizes. If you have some worthwhile data to share, please forward it via email and we'll add it to the database. - New tooling data was added for Titan Excelerator 601 endmills, Melin MVH Series 4 Flute endmills, and Imco M525's. - Fixed some unit conversion bugs. - Drill chart now shows a maximum of 3 (instead of 4) decimal places on metric measurements. - Fixed a bug that caused paste to paste twice into fields. - Added taper information for BT 30/35/40/45/50, CAT 30/40/45/50/60, and NMTB 30/40/50 tapers to the Taper Calculator under Geometry. - Added support for V-Bits used by engravers. This has been a frequently requested feature. They're accessed by selecting an endmill, and then using the geometry pulldown to specify a V-Bit of appropriate tip angle. 30, 45, 60, and 90 degrees are supported. This is the same pulldown used to select a ballnose. Internally, G-Wizard will compute the effective diameter based on the cutting depth, angle, and overall tool diameter. Recommended depths for engraving are 0.005 to 0.010". Feedrates are adjusted down in light of the geometry of a V-Bit (it's crude compared to a helical endmill). If you have a particularly delicate tip or difficult workpiece, try setting the Gas Pedal slider all the way left. If you are running a spring-loaded engraving holder, you can as much as double the feedrate. 9/10/11: Release 1.545 Release 1.545 is a usability fit and finish release. It's been a while since we had a GWC release, and I have a pretty big feature in the works (Notebooks), but I didn't want to hold up these user-suggested revisions for that: - Stickout is no longer locked when selecting a Tool Crib tool. It takes its default value from the Crib, but you can change it if you need to. Thanks Joe! - The slot number (T# for a g-code program) appears on the item name for Tool Crib tools so you can easily see which one you're using when programming or working with your CAM package. Another one from Joe! - Added a dedicated button to set up all the particulars for the MeshCAM integration. For MeshCAM users, this lets you set up clipboard copies from Feeds and Speeds in a format that MeshCAM understands. Got another CAM integration waiting in the wings for an announcement from the CAM manufacturer too! - Fixed a nasty bug that made all the cap screw data disappear in metric mode. Sorry George! - GW will now remember if it was maximized when closed and will restore that status the next time it is opened. Thanks Grant! Expect another release of GWC fairly soon with Notebooks and perhaps a little more. 7/27/11: Release 1.540 Release 1.540 has several nifty new things: - There's a new Cut Depth Mini-Calculator for turning. - The HSM calculator is slightly changed. It no longer messes with SFM or Chipload--these are left as they were without HSM compensation. Instead, correction factors are applied to RPM and Feedrate. The amount of the multiplier for each is also now displayed in the calculator. This makes it easier to enter custom SFM and Chipload based on manufacturer's tooling recommendations and then apply the HSM multiplier downstream. Thanks to William for the suggestion! - If you select a particular Alloy and Condition from the Materials DB, your selection will now be displayed below the Materials drop down. - You can run G-Wizard for up to 2 weeks without an Internet connection. What's new in 1.540 is it will start to warn you 3 days in advance of when the 2 weeks runs out. This was based on feedback from customers who didn't want last minute hiccups with G-Wizard not running when they got in on a Monday. 3 days will let you know Friday to take care of it over the weekend if need be. - Your Cut Depth is now limited to be less than Stickout. - The number of decimal places on feedrate is reduced when in metric--there were too many and it made it hard to read sometimes. - We added a "Made by CNCCookbook in America" notice because we're proud of our roots. 7/11/11: Release 1.53 Release 1.53 has a number of customer-suggested changes as well as some work under the covers to prepare for bigger features that are coming. - Made a change so that manufacturer's data needs to be brought in via csv spreadsheet import. Manual editing within G-Wizard has been disabled. Over time, we've found it's just a lot easier and less error prone to edit the CSV sheets, so we're discontinuing support going forward for manual edits. For more information on the format of these sheets, see our Manufacturer's Data Page. - Fixed a bug that could cause the default taper list to pop up empty sometimes for metric users. - Add unit conversion for the remaining fields on interpolation so they all show in metric. - The drill chart now has options to select inch or metric endmill sizes. This makes it easy to use the drill chart for setting endmill size. Since it handles more than just twist drills, the button is now called "Sizes". - The old "ballnose" and "parabolic" check boxes have been changed to a single combo box that will be used to capture geometry options for tooling. At the moment, it only handles the ballnose on endmills and parabolic on twist drills, but this is how we'll handle a much larger variety of geometries in future releases. - CSV import files used to only accept Imperial units. You now have the option to use metric on any column. For columns normally in inches, just add "-mm" to the column name and it will be in millimeters. For surface speed (e.g. SFM), you can use "-mpm" for "meters per minute." This should make dealing with manufacturer's tool data easier for metric users. - Made a number of changes to make the tool information import more robust with better error checking. - Made a usability improvement to Cut Optimizer so it has 3 radio buttons for the different options instead of 2 radio buttons and a checkbox--makes a lot more sense when you read it. Thanks Travis! - It was possible when calculating tapping feeds and speeds for the feedrate to get out of sync with the rpms, which is a sure way to break a tap. I've now disabled overrides when tapping, and if the required feedrate is unavailable due to a limit, it will set the feedrate to "0" to signal there is a problem. 6/13/11: Release 1.52 Some really good stuff in 1.52: - We've added a Plunge Roughing mini-calculator. Plunge Roughing is a very efficient roughing strategy for machines and setups where rigidity is a problem. This calculator will be in Beta for a while so folks can validate the results. I checked it against a number of online sources, and it seems conservative, if anything. - We've taken the HSM constant tool engagement calculator out of beta--it's finalized now. The last step was to validate it not only with our own users, but with online data sources such as this database on the eMastercam group. - We now suggest a twist drill size to use with reamers in the hint area at the bottom of feeds and speeds. This was a customer-suggested feature (thanks, John!). - Another customer-suggested feature is the ability to select sheet metal gauges in the Weights and Volumes calculator. You select a gauge from the popup list and this sets the material thickness for further calculations. This also provides a handy reference for sheet metal thickness. - Added units to the hardware profile page to make it more obvious what to enter. - We now have support for Through Spindle Coolant (TSC) and Programmable Coolant Nozzles (PCN) like SpiderCool or Haas P-Cool. These can add a lot of productivity to a machining center, especially drilling holes. To use the features, you must indicate they're enable for you machine on the machine profile (Setup tab). You then access them with checkboxes just to the right of the mini-calcs. - Fixed a number of customer reported bugs and made other minor tweaks for usability and appearance. 5/19/11: Release 1.51 This is a minor release that includes: - Several bug fixes including improvements to the metric units handling around machine weights and rigidity adjustment. - Correction to data for M16 threads. - Added SA516 Group 70 to Low Carbon Steel. This is a pressure vessel alloy. - Minor usability improvement: remember thread size when switching between internal and external threads. 5/10/11: Release 1.5 Version 1.5 of G-Wizard Calculator was just uploaded. I'm going to wait a few days before I activate the upgrade notices to make sure there are no issues. There's several new things in this release, but the main reason I'm being cautious is there are code changes to the login to support our upcoming new login server which should register new users and new subscribers faster. We don't have the faster part working yet, but getting this out there is an essential part of the process. 3/30/11: Release 1.045 It's been a little while since we had a new G-Wizard Calculator release, so this one is a doozy. G-Wizard gets a Gas Pedal The biggest news is that G-Wizard got a Gas Pedal:
The G-Wizard Gas Pedal... The Gas Pedal is the Tortoise and Hare gizmo at the bottom. If you move it towards our conservative tortoise, it emphasizes tool life and surface finish. If you haven't been machining very long and are trying to learn, this is a good position to start out in. If you move it to the right towards our aggressive hare, G-Wizard tries to emphasize Material Removal Rate. The Gas Pedal has 4 positions. Just so you know, G-Wizard before the Gas Pedal is position #3, which is the default. So, there is one more aggressive position, and 2 less aggressive positions available on tap. What it's actually doing under the covers when it goes conservative is scaling back the chipload a lot and the surface speed a little. Reasons to be conservative: - You're a beginner - You want to emphasize surface finish over MRR. Slowing down chipload a lot versus surface speed will give a nicer finish. - You can't afford to break a tool, either because the tool is expensive, or because the workpiece is expensive and would be damaged. Being conservative doesn't guarantee you won't break a tool, but it certainly helps. - Your using inexpensive tooling and machinery. Reasons to be aggressive: - You know what you're doing - You've got good tooling, a solid machine, and a good CAM program generating your g-code - You're ready to crank it up Small Machine Rigidity Compensation As we all know, small machines just aren't as rigid as larger machines. When I say small, I mean small--smaller than any commercial VMC out there. Small begins with any machine that weighs less than 3000lbs. Anything bigger ignores it. If you leave the weight set to 0, it gets ignored too. If you fill out the machine profile completely, but especially in the areas of weight and travels, G-Wizard will adjust your horsepower downward (and hence the aggressiveness of your cuts, which are HP limited) if your machine likely falls below normal VMC rigidity standards. There is a checkbox next to the weight field on the Machine Profile (first Setup tab) that tells what it is derated to. The Small Machine compensation takes into account that with smaller machines, not all of the weight goes to rigidity. After all, that motor sitting atop the spindle head isn't making things more rigid, nor are the servos or steppers hanging off the sides of the axes. The smaller the machine, the more it assumes there is "non-rigidity increasing weight." In addition, it takes into account travels. There is a sweet spot envelope for each weight class that maximizes the rigidity. Expanding travels beyond that point penalizes the rigidity, even though it makes the machine a little heavier. These rigidity compensation calculations are by necessity approximations. We don't have your machine available to do Finite Elements Analysis on. But, based on data collected from a lot of machines, we think it will help folks with small machines to operate more within the limits of those machines and hence be more successful. If you've got everything dialed in and don't need the help, by all means turn off the rigidity compensation by clicking the checkbox next to the weight field. Rigid Fixture or Machine Bonus Comp For the opposite end of the spectrum from small machines with minimal rigidity there is a new combo box between the "Feedrate" and the "Simplify/Advanced" button. It has two choices: Normal and Rigid. Use the "Rigid" choice advisedly to boose your speeds and feeds. If you have a particularly beefy machine, perhaps a big solid Mori Seiki or most Horizontal mills compared to most Vertical mills, flip it over to "Rigid". If your fixturing is particularly solid, you can flip over to "Rigid". What we're looking for are above average machines and setups to take advantage of this feature to drive higher speeds and feeds. Chatter Pitch Calculator So you hit some chatter and it's leaving noticeable marks on your workpiece. Consider this an opportunity, because now you can calculate the speed to run your spindle to minimize that chatter. It's easy with the G-Wizard Chatter Pitch Calculator:
To use the Chatter Pitch Calculator, you must be able to see the chatter marks on your workpiece well enough to measure the distance between them. Enter that value in the top choice. Enter your surface speed (SFM) you were using when you made the cut, and lastly, enter how many flutes your cutter has. The Chatter Pitch Calculator will them recommend a series of spindle speeds that will minimize that chatter frequency. It recommends some speeds that are faster than where chatter occured, and some that are slower. In the example screen shot, the chatter marks are extremely close together, implying a very high frequency. Most real cases will involve much lower chatter frequencies, and hence much lower spindle speeds would be recommended. Here is why it is an opportunity, whenever you can quantify chatter like this. So long as you keep the same type of toolholder, same type of tool, the same tool stickout (be sure to measure and record it!), this chatter frequency will be reproduced regardless of the workpiece and fixturing. That means that for this tooling combination, you've now found a set of spindle rpm ranges that should be relatively chatter free, hence you can run quite a bit faster in those. Coating Recommendations When you select most carbide tools, G-Wizard will indicate what the recommended coatings are for the material being machined. Web Site URL's We've had several shops request information on what URL's G-Wizard accesses so they can keep their firewalls tightly focused on only allowing access to known URL's. To facilitate this, the Setup Files tab now lists the URL's that G-Wizard is accessing. It does standard HTTP operations on these URL's, so no additional ports are needed other than what is used by a web browser. Bug Fixes Several customer reported bugs were fixed: - Some errors in the taper data. Also add data for 5C and R8 tapers. - Fixed a bug accessing the unit conversion popups for the scientific calculator. 3/12/11: Release 1.041 Bug fixes and a few minor features and refinements: - Additional low-carbon steels added to the Material DB: A36, A569, A1011. - Added an acceleration field to the hardware profile. This field is used as the default acceleration in the Interpolation Mini-Calc. - Some metric refinements for the cut optimizer. There were a couple values (power and MRR) that didn't switch to Metric, and the default deflection values for Roughing and Finishing have been changed to be friendlier "round" numbers when in metric. Thanks for the suggestions, Scott! 2/25/11: Release 1.040 Check out the new Ramping and Interpolation Mini-Calcs. They're very cool! They're documented on the Feeds and Speeds doc page. I added default profiles for the Tormach PCNC 1100 since we have so many Tormach users as well as the IHCNC mill. The specs for VMC were changed to be the specs of a current Haas VF-1 and Lathe is a Haas TL-1. Unfortunately, you can't get at them unless you're starting with a clean install and no preferences files. Eventually you'll be able to download profile information from our "Cloud" like you do Tooling and CNC Controller profiles for the editor. Numerous bug fixes and tweaks based on customer feedback. For example, there was a bug that would cause multiple copies of some popup windows to appear. Another that was annoying caused the selected machine profile to revert to "VMC" if you shut down with the Setup page showing. 2/21/11: Release 1.039 Some fixes of various kinds and a new "Tips" feature. The software will nag trial users less often, ands shows a Tip window instead. Subscribers get the tip window too. You can go through all the tips in the window with a button if you like. You can also turn tips off with a check box in the Tip window. To turn them back on, there is a checkbox on Setup About. 2/16/11: Release 1.037 Tweaks and bug fixes coming out of the Manufacturer's Tool Data crowd sourcing exercise. 2/15/11: Release 1.036 Quite a lot of additional bulletproofing for Tool Table Import added in this release. 2/14/11: Release 1.033 Unplanned minor release. Fixes a bug and adds the ability to import tool tables as CSV files. Export one to see what the format should look like. Various folks are playing with these formats in order to be able to connect to their CAM program, Mach3, or other software. 2/11/11: Release 1.032 Couple of items to help some customers: - Under Quick Reference there is a new tab "Thermal" that has a thermal expansion calculator. Useful to tell how much your parts (or potentially your machine and tooling) may move with temperature changes. I've written a brief description for the Quick Ref docs of how it can be used. - Added new entries to the Material DB for A514 and T1 under "Steel - Low Carbon Alloy (8620)". - Added an import button on the Custom Inserts / Tooling popup for the Tool Crib so it is handy to download more manufacturer's data. 2/1/11: Release 1.031 - First cut of a new facility to directly download manufacturer's information into G-Wizard is available. Visit the Tool Crib and click the Import button to see the catalog. You can also still import the CSV files locally via a button on the catalog popup. - Added additional error checking as well as error logging to help diagnose problems in the field. There is a new "Log" button below the About box that will bring up the error log. Ordinarily, it should be empty. If you are having a problem, I may ask you to email me whatever is reported there. - The Export button now includes a variable for ballnose in the data it puts in the clipboard or saves to a file. 1/30/11: Release 1.029 - Added "Plunge" and "Ramp" cut types to Cut KB. - Added the ability to control your upgrade notifications. There are three choices: o Immediate: Notify immediately of any new release availability. o Feathered: You will be notified from 1 to 7 days after a new release is available. This has been the default. It gives time for any obvious bugs to be discovered before everyone upgrades. o Severe: Only mandatory upgrades are flagged. You'll miss a lot of upgrades this way as I don't mark very many as mandatory. - The Feeds and Speeds drill chart popup now scrolls to the current tool diameter (or closest to it) on popup. You can double click a drill to close the popup and enter that drill's diameter. Thanks KVOM for the suggestions! - Fixed a bug where changing IPR in the surface finish calculator for lathe was not saving back to Feeds and Speeds. - Fixed a roundoff bug that would cause the cut optimizer to periodically announce it couldn't find a solution even though it had. - Manufacturer's data is now release and not beta. - Renamed "Setup Other" tab to be "Setup Integrate". There are a whole host of new options there to be used to facilitate integration with CAM programs. These are probably not real useful to end users until the CAM program integrations are finished, though you can make it easy to copy Feeds and Speeds data to Excel. - Added a CSV file (spreadsheet) export facility to Cut KB. Press the "Export" button to save the current search results. - Added a CSV file (spreadsheet) export facility to Tool Crib. Press the "Export" button to save the current tool table. 1/20/11: Release 1.025 - Cut KB is Live! 1/18/11: Release 1.025 - Final installment on Cut KB UI mockups (except for Chatter tab, which will be down the road). - Several new custom tool data files are available for download: MariTool 3fl High Helix Carbide Finisher Ingersoll 6D2C or 6D2G 45 Degree Facemill Widia SEHT/SEHW42 Insert 45 Degree Facemill: Note that the Glacern FM45 is similar and can use this profile - Bug fixes. Be sure to pick up this release if you're using the custom tool data, as some of the new data won't import without the bug fixes. 1/13/11: Release 1.024 - New additions to the materials database: Steels--1108, 1109, 1115, 1120, 1126, 1132, 1139, 1144, 1146, 1151. Hastelloy C22 - Add Cut KB Entry mock-up now includes rating stars so you can rate the desirability of the cut. This provides 4 ways of quantifying the Cut KB Entry: Rating (0-5 stars), Comment, Wear, and Chatter. - Did some serious work on the Cut KB UI layout to try to get the most important stuff to the top left and to make it overall look better. These screens are somewhat complex as is Feeds and Speeds. There's just a whole lot going on there! 12/30/10: Release 1.023 1.023 has a bug fix for the cut optimizer. It was not optimizing though the deflection values on the feeds and speeds page were accurate. The optimizer now also figures the deflection allowance based on cutter diameter for very small cutters as 0.001" was too much for a micro mill. 12/22/10: Release 1.022 1.022 has a bug fix for the cascading menu HSS/Carbide tools--they weren't updating when material was changed. It also has a feature to export the spindle rpm and feedrate when a button is pressed. A customer is experimenting with some scripts that make it easier to integrate G-Wizard with their CAM system. This export feature is off by default and should be considered experimental. Contact us before you start depending on it! 12/18/10: Release 1.020 1.020 was almost 3 weeks in the making, so it's a big release. There may be some bugs as a result. If you need to revert to the prior version due to a bug, there is a link right under the install button on the GW Install Page. Be sure to report the problem either via email or the User's Club so it can be fixed! The major new functionality is Custom Tool Data. Docs are already up on the Setup page. This feature allows you to enter your manufacturer's recommendations for surface speed (SFM) and chipload (IPT) for a particular tool. You enter these values by material and by diameter for chipload. You need not enter every possible material or chipload for every diameter. You'll need to do at least one material and at least either one chipload value for a diameter or a surface speed. With that said, it's worthwhile to at least fill out all the entries for a material so you have them for future use while the data is handy. You can also enter Custom Tool Data by importing a comma separated file (Excel will create these). We will be building a library of these files as we get in information. See the details on the Tool Data Download Page. We recommend you create your tool data as csv files rather than directly in G-Wizard. The reason is that the file is reusable and easier to see and work with in Excel. Plus, if you send us your csv files, we'll add them to the library. Other Changes: - The Tool Menu now cascades to show HSS or Carbide on less commonly used tools. Commonly used tools still have both entries at the top level to save keystrokes. Tools that used to use a checkbox to signify carbide (Taps and Saws) will need to be reconfigured in the Tool Crib using the new menu. This gives us some new carbide choices that were not in prior versions, such as Carbide Spade Drills. - The Tool Menu is now scrollable for times when you're accessing a Tool Crib with a lot of entries. - Fixed a bug in figuring weights and volumes for Tubing. - Made quite a few changes to the surface finish popup for turning tools. You can now enter nose radius directly, but the menu is still available to select standard radii. In addition, the popup will remember the nose radius for the duration of the G-Wizard session (but will reset if you exit) so you don't have to keep re-entering it. - Fixed some serious bugs in the Preferences backup code. In some cases it would save all the preferences as a single file instead of writing a set of files. If you've been backing up your Preferences (always a good idea), you should be sure to take a new backup with this release. - Fixed a bug reported on the User's Club where chamfer diameter was always in inches. - Quite a few fit and finish detail changes in various areas of the Tool Crib. For example, I tried to make sure the "Delete" buttons had some whitespace around them so they are harder to accidentally click. - Added some Nitralloy entries to the Materials DB. 11/30/10: Release 1.010 The big news for 1.010 is the new HSM function on the Feeds and Speeds. It can be used to figure estimated cutter engagement angles and to adjust feeds and speeds for cornering, or when constant tool engagement toolpaths (e.g. Surfcam and similar CAM) are available. I'll be writing up more documentation for it shortly and will post a note. 11/23/10: Release 1.009 The main thing here is a UI mockup of the upcoming Cut KB feature. If you go to the Feeds and Speeds page, you'll see a new button at the bottom "Cut KB". 11/21/10: Release 1.008 Just two areas of change. First, the Files tab under Setup was overhauled to make it easy to backup and restore your setup preferences. Second, I added some new entries to the Materials DB per user requests. These were primarily in the area of new aluminums such as 2219. If you are ever looking for a material and can't find it, send me a note. 11/16/10: Release 1.007 This is a bug fix release. There was a display problem on the Twist Drill geometry calculator where it showed a scroll bar on the diameter. 11/12/10: Release 1.006 Version 1.006 is now up. It has the remainder of the Materials database uploaded and some fine tuning here and there. 11/10/10: Release 1.005 Ver 1.005 brings more materials online for the new materials model introduced with Ver 1.004. We started with just aluminum and 1.005 adds: 11/9/10: Release 1.004 New Material Model: A greatly expanded and much more comprehensive Material Model is coming. What the new model does is two things. First, a lot of folks had trouble indentifying how to map their particular material into the broad categories of the old model. They wanted more exact names for the various alloys. 11/2/10: Release 1.002
- Serial #: Provides a spot to enter an arbitrary serial # associated with the tool. This is useful if your tool management system or process uses serial numbers. - X Comp: Compensation measurement for cutter comp on CNC machines. - Z Comp: Compensation measurement for tool length on CNC machines. These three fields are all part of some upcoming Tool Data Management features for the G-Wizard G-Code Editor. If you're not using CNC, just ignore them. If you are a CNC'er, keep an eye posted for updates and you may want to try the G-Wizard G-Code Editor Beta Test. 10/30/10: Release 1.001
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