v1.9.4 (unstable release)

New Features

• Support for evaluating expression after the % symbol (b3d3934). This enables preliminary support for Manual Tool Change (#118)

  Example:

  G90
  %wait  ; Wait for the planner queue to empty
  %x0=posx,y0=posz,z0=posz  ; Save work position to x0, y0, and z0
  %zsafe=10
  G0 Z[zsafe]  ; Go to zsafe
  G0 X200 Y200
  %wait  ; Wait for the planner queue to empty
  G0 X[x0] Y[y0]  ; Rapidly move to x0 and y0
  G1 Z[z0] F10 ; Slightly move to z0
  

• New macro variables (9655a7f)

  • Wait for the planner queue to empty:
    %wait
  • Specify the bounding box:
    %xmin=0,xmax=100,ymin=0,ymax=100
  • Save work position:
    %x0=posx,y0=posy,z0=posz
  • Move to saved position:
    G0 X[x0] Y[y0]

• New command line option for specifying CNC controller (322f1a0):

  cnc --controller Grbl
  cnc --controller Smoothie
  cnc --controller TinyG
  

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug that cannot load port settings from .cncrc with current versions (3e1d0d8, resolves #156)

  {
    "ports": [
        {
          "comName": "/dev/ttyAMA0",
          "manufacturer": ""
        }
    ]
  }

• Windows: Fixed a CSS bug that set incorrect table width and height to the workspace table (b3e7138)

Improvements

• Reorder widgets by clicking on the sortable icon (91fbcef, resolves #155)
• Add a confirmation asking user whether to delete the widget (e69e981)
• Append %wait (G04 dwell command) to the end of G-code content (519063c, cbb3e8f, resolves #137)
• Normalize command line arguments for packaged Electron app (c6d1ffd). Now you can specify command line options to Electron app.

v1.9.3 (unstable release)

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug that caused slow performance when switching between 3D view and G-code view (e247af2, fixes #154)

Enhancements

• Centralizes workflow state to the backend server (7737668, 38c5524, resolves #137)
• Appends timestamp to the query string for loading JS bundles (cf3f0a9)
• Logger enhancement with namespace support (79a2d0a)
• Removes redundant properties from the controller state (0dca391)

v1.9.2

Bug Fixes

• Resolved a warning message of Using html-webpack-plugin-after-html-processing without returning a result is deprecated. (c9f610d)
• Fixed a bug that caused error when trying to browse the watch directory (b2e5e8c)
• Fixed a compatibility issue that Notifications API are not supported on iOS (bf9f67f, resolves #153)
• Mobile-friendly enhancements (ca0fb6b, 2003a08, resolves #153)
• CSS bug fixes (578077e, 3f2e951, e8eec8f)
• Fixed a bug that sometimes OverlayTrigger is always visible on top of the Axes widget (72f0579)

v1.9.1

This update contains improvements and bug fixes, including:

• Grbl-Mega support
• Wait for the bootloader to complete before sending commands (resolves #151)

v1.9.0

Note: The project now renamed from cnc to cncjs, and will drop Node.js v0.12 support in a future release

This update contains improvements and bug fixes, including:

• Preliminary Smoothieware support - Ethernet and ESP8266 are currently not supported
• TinyG and g2core support
• Laser widget support
• Automatically controls the display of Grbl, Smoothie, and TinyG widgets
• Adding support for toggling 3D view for G-code display
• Adding support for sending push notifications after command completions
• Resolved an issue that caused TinyG freeze with G2 or G3 arcs
• Macro now supports variables for specifying G-code boundary and work position
  • G-code boundary: xmin, xmax, ymin, ymax, zmin, zmax
  • Work position: posx, posy, posz, posa
• Improved camera controls for 3D view
  • Switch between orthographic and perspective projection
  • Switch between rotate and pan
• Adding the ability to mute audio, and rotate and flip video from webcam widget
• Adding support for displaying workspace settings
• Adding support for managing commands to run server-side scripts
• Adding support for managing events to trigger gcode or system commands
• Improved RESTful APIs
• Improved stability when recovering from error and alarm mode
• Resolved an issue that coolant buttons in spindle widget did not reflect the state of the mist coolant and flood coolant properly
• Fixed a bug that will accidentally remove the last connection from the connections array
• New keyboard shortcuts
  • Select Jog Distance
    ctrl + alt + cmd + d
  • Jog Forward
    ctrl + alt + cmd + f
  • Jog Backward
    ctrl + alt + cmd + b
  • Select A-axis
    ctrl + alt + cmd + a

v1.9.0-rc.6 (candidate)

Bug Fixes

• Rollback Electron from 1.6.2 to 1.4.15 (resolves #146 and #151). This will resolve an issue when running electron app on Mac/Windows with cncjs versions from 1.9.0-alpha.5 to 1.9.0-rc.5.

Version History

cncjs	electron	electron-builder
1.8.14	~1.4.14	~11.2.4
1.8.15	~1.4.14	~11.2.4
1.8.16	~1.4.14	~11.2.4
1.8.17	~1.4.14	~11.2.4
1.9.0-alpha	~1.4.14	~12.2.0
1.9.0-alpha.1	~1.4.14	~13.5.0
1.9.0-alpha.2	~1.4.14	~13.5.0
1.9.0-alpha.3	~1.4.14	~13.5.0
1.9.0-alpha.4	~1.4.15	~14.5.1
1.9.0-alpha.5	~1.6.2	~15.1.1
1.9.0-beta	~1.6.2	~15.4.2
1.9.0-beta.1	~1.6.2	~15.5.1
1.9.0-rc	~1.6.2	~15.6.2
1.9.0-rc.1	~1.6.2	~15.6.2
1.9.0-rc.2	~1.6.2	~16.0.1
1.9.0-rc.3	~1.6.2	~16.0.1
1.9.0-rc.4	~1.6.2	~16.3.0
1.9.0-rc.5	~1.6.2	~16.3.0

Note. Electron 1.5.x ~ 1.6.x are running on upgraded versions of Chrome and Node and may have some instability. See electron-v1.5.0 for details.

v1.9.0-rc.5

• Drops delay@2.0 because UglifyJS doesn't support ES2015 syntax (f2c118e)
• Checks serialport connection before sending periodical commands (e51a9fb)

v1.9.0-rc.4 (broken)

Broken

• delay@2.0 is no longer ES5 compliant (f4c0639)
  See sindresorhus/delay#17 (comment)

Bug Fixes & Improvements

• Adds sanity checks for workspace settings (a81e984, #150, #151)
• Resolves a deprecation warning: Calling an asynchronous function without callback is deprecated (6804c95, #150, #151)

v1.9.0-rc.3

This update contains a critical bug fix for 1.9.0-rc, 1.9.0-rc.1, and 1.9.0-rc.2

Bug Fixes

• Fixed an issue that caused RegExp exceptions on Node.js v4 and earlier versions (7e10f4b, #146, #150, #151)

v1.9.0-rc.2 (broken)

Broken

• const re = new RegExp(//, 'g') is not supported on Node.js v4 and earlier versions

Bug Fixes

• When the apply TLO option is checked, send G49 to cancel TLO before running a G38.x probe command (7913f6e)
• Fixed a bug that stored the user input array in an array (dd50330)
• Smoothie: Resolve a Laser Test issue that cannot flush G-code commands in the queue after sending the fire command (99a21c7, #107)

Improvements

• Display workspace settings (6cf1d27, #48)
• Don't send G-code commands in Alarm mode (7f40218)
• Preview commands before running Z probe (2df1d81, #147)
• Update Z-Probe commands for setting tool length offset (3980a8f, #147)
• Adds context support (6072ac5, 3143c55)
• Adds an error code for laser mode when VARIABLE_SPINDLE is disabled (f3e0298)

Screenshots

• Z-Probe Preview
  
• Workspace Settings