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I think I mentioned this before. I'm confused by the download of the latest Gearotic in the download section of the Gearotic website. The file name when downloaded is Gearoticsetup2. Yet you say you have released Version 3. I would have thought it would change to Gearoticsetup3. I only check in once ...

Hi Art:
Things are fast and furious over there I guess?
The stable version on the website reports itself as 2.30020 when installed.
Typo in the subject title above?

Sage

Art:
I played around a bit more and discovered what is causing the frozen video screen.
Everything works ok until I'm tired of playing and I try to start over with another capture. I went and selected the camera again and instead of live video I got a snap shot in the center of the screen. From ...

Yes 2.298. I had to uninstall to get rid of the older version. An install over top did not update the program.
Windows 8.1 also complains about it being a suspicious program so I had to do the "install anyway" option.
I also restarted the machine after installation.



EDIT:
I ran it again this ...

I have an Asus laptop Win 8.1 with built in camera.
I'm seeing a few issues.

The camera seems to work but nothing shows up in the resolution pick dropdown.
When I turn on video sampling I get my face in one frame in the middle as a snap shot (no live video) I assume this is proper.
I left the ...

<edit> you were answering while I was typing - none the less...

Ya-Nvr-No:

I don't even know what a B-axis is so I'll leave that question up to Art.

But I've noticed something else that doesn't make sense to Me.
I went through the options selecting the X++ X- Y++ and Y- options and then go back ...

Hi Art:

I figured out why the rotary table pictorial was disappearing. I think the 4th axis selection is not being saved in the project file. I select it generate the code and do a save but next time I start the program and load the project file the 4th axis is not selected. I hadn't noticed it was ...

BTW
One other thing. I noticed you have a pictorial of the rotary table configuration behind the gear to be generated. At least I thought I saw it show up a couple of times. Then it seemed to stop appearing. I was going to analyze whether it was correct according to the X or Y option but it stopped ...

Ok. That was it. I figured you had it configurable in there somewhere. Great work.

But I'll throw one more curve at you. I usually cut a stick of gear material while I'm at it and part off a few spares. So I would probably specify a really wide gear. The problem is you have the program doing bi ...

Ok. The Gcode is most definitely X and Y switched. I edit the Gcode and now I have the rotary on the left side with the gear blank horizontal along the X axis behind the cutter. The code drives the cutter in X left and right along the blank, moving in Y in cut depth steps toward the blank. Then it ...