PathPilot quick tips. I wanted to show you some new features in PathPilot 2.2.2,
or newer. Right away we wanted to start by showcasing the new support for
the 1100M plus and the 770M plus. So in the newer config chooser you can see
there's actually two new choices, and these are the M models that have the
servo upgrades for faster rapid installed. So this is an 1100 M plus so
we're gonna pick that and launch PathPilot and show you the rest of the video.
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So here we are in PathPilot 2.2.2. We're running on 1100 M plus.
And wanted to lead off by showing you some of the new features in the tool
table. On the offsets tab we have a thousand tool, tool table. Really handy.
Plenty of room. But can get kind of large if you leave gaps between tool numbering
sometimes it's kind of easy to think I'll start your drills at a hundred, or
your end Mills at five hundred, or something like that. So in this
particular tool table there is a number of gaps, and it can lead a little bit to
a lot of scrolling around. So I've got a program loaded here. And once you load a
program, you'll notice a few things. One is that the tools that are used by the
current program, the tool number is shaded a little darker. So that's one
clue that these are used, but we also added a new combo box up here that you
can drop down and say hey show me just the tools used by the current g-code
file. And we collapse and pull out all the rows that aren't used. So it
lets you zero in and focus on "what are the tools that I need to have ready
prepped in the ATC or sitting in my holders for this job." You can also filter
it with tools with descriptions. So you know the blank rows that you haven't
filled in and done anything with, we basically remove all of those, and it
lets you focus on just the tools and the tool numbers that you actually want to
be able to see. So those are the new features on the filtering. We also
powered up the search. We had a search capability before
but it was a little hidden and limited. Now there's a nice big search box at the
top and search is improved in a couple different ways. It's case insensitive so
you can search any mixed case will find things. It searches across any of the
columns for which you type in as well. So a good example is I know I've got a two
millimeter drill in here somewhere I don't know which one number it is I
forget. I can just type 2.0 mm, and boom. It's taking me to tool 160, because it's
found the two millimeter right in there. You can also search easily for things
like, let me type in endmill. So it finds the first end mill, but I know I've got a
lot of them and that's not the one I'm looking for. So if I want to search fine
next or find previous the up arrows and down arrows pop you between those the
Enter key also takes you forward and then escape just start your search back
over again. So some really handy ways of just being able to zero in and manage
your tool table a lot easier. The other big feature that we've added, is the
override sliders, and now take you all the way up to 200%. So formally we cap
them at a hundred and fifty, when they start to get to be unusual values, we
color them yellow for you, just to alert you that these might be a little bit
unusual, but 200 percent instead of 150 helps you dial in feeds and speeds. On
that the other area that we did was enhance the context of the g-code. Here
I've got a file loaded. As I start to run and stop, and I'm dialing in, maybe this
is the first time I've run this file. A lot of times you might be stopping
prematurely at different spots as you're like, oh you know figuring things out.
Formally, whenever you click stop, we would always just rewind the display and
put the display back up at line one. And it kind of, if you broke a tool in the
middle or something, sometimes it's hard to understand, "well where did I leave off."
Now with 2.2.2, or newer, when you run a program...
if I click stop, we just leave it exactly where it was. So I know, "hey I was just
machining line 29," right. If you hit cycle start again, it does
start over at line 1, and we always show you which line that's going to be by
showing you the green line. That's the start line, but we now don't clear those
other indicators of where you left off or scroll. So kind of helpful. If you if
you want the other behavior, if you just click the reset button we always rewind
it automatically for you. The other feature we added was reminding
you, when you're dealing with very large g-code files, that for performance
reasons, sometimes PathPilot by default limits the number of toolpath lines. The
default I think is a hundred thousand, and so in this program you can tell when
in the CAM program, I had five of these circles, and I loaded it up, and I'm
confused, because I only see three. But now we remind you all the time by
putting in the upper right here, that the preview is limited. And the the fastest
way to now get rid of that limit, and say I don't care how many lines, I just want
to see the whole file. So if I'm the g-code window you can right click and
say load all preview lines. We also put that underneath the touch accessible
menu for touchscreen users. So if I say load all preview lines we go back to the
file we remove the limits, we load all the lines, and then you'll see five of
these here, there's our five knobs, and the file preview warning is no longer
visible. So hope you enjoy a couple of the new features here in PathPilot 2.2.2.
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