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CamCraft 0.14.0 - a clean-room CAM system that turns 3D models into
NC programs for CNC milling and turning.

What's in this release

A minor release: a Probe operation, per-operation coolant, G76 threading,
wear-mode cutter compensation, a Tormach post, 3-2-1 work-offset alignment,
an MCP server for AI agents, and a long run of rapid, drilling and lathe
safety fixes. Thanks to bherbruck, mkinney and seelesturm for their
contributions.

New

  • Probe operation (#108): face, edge, outside-corner and bore/boss-centre
    finding with a touch probe. The Fanuc post writes G31 skip touches with a
    no-contact alarm, can set G54-G59 or stop for the operator, and stops when a
    result is out of tolerance. Posts that cannot probe refuse it by name.
  • Coolant per operation (#112): Off, Flood (default), Mist or Through
    tool. Every post writes the machine's own code, with M9 before each tool
    change and at program end. A coolant the machine has no code for blocks the
    post by name.
  • G76 threading (#34): the Fanuc Lathe post can write a thread as a
    two-block G76 cycle (post option "Threading", default G32 passes).
  • Wear-mode cutter compensation (#38): the contour's tool-centre path
    posts under G41/G42 Dn / G40, with the register holding only the wear delta
    (Fanuc; other posts refuse by name).
  • Tormach PathPilot post and 770MX machine (#131, mkinney). A machine
    file in inches now posts inch (G20) programs through posts that read the
    machine's units.
  • Controller tool numbers (#221, mkinney): a tool can carry its own
    T/H number; two tools posting one number are refused.
  • Align a work offset 3-2-1 (#187, bherbruck) from a picked face, edge
    and vertex or bore.
  • Box stock per-side allowance (#198, bherbruck), and the Stock page
    shows the models' size and extents (bherbruck).
  • camcraft-cli mcp (#128): a stdio MCP server that lets an AI agent
    open or import a model, set stock and tools, edit operations, generate,
    verify and post - every change undoable.
  • Unsaved changes (#107): the title shows *, and closing, Ctrl+Q, New
    or Open over unsaved work asks Save / Don't Save / Cancel.
  • 3D finish scallop ceiling (#37): a stepover at or past the ball
    diameter, or a tolerance at or past half the ball radius, is refused by
    name.
  • UI: Create cells darken without stock and open the Stock page (#216);
    a chunkier, readable origin triad (#195); pinning ribbon cells is undoable
    (#143, mkinney).
  • Stock view: the rotary simulation states (and can enforce) its
    flute-rotation bound (#20); shading reads a true distance gradient (#22).

Fixed

  • Rapids are judged more strictly: against the tool's whole footprint
    (#106), along the whole length of sideways rapids (#140), and for turning
    in the meridian plane against the revolved bar (#103). Any rapid into
    uncut stock blocks the post.
  • Ops go Stale when what they read changes: a stock edit (#156) or an
    earlier op of the setup changing (#109) marks dependent ops Stale, and the
    post refuses them until they are regenerated; one Regenerate All brings a
    job current. Saved projects may show some ops Stale once after upgrading.
  • Drilling reads the stock earlier operations left (#89). A cross drill
    is judged against the finished part (#117) and enters box stock at the face
    (#85). It no longer gets the axial-hole check on a lathe (#80), reads its
    holder per station (#119) and unwelded STL rounds at their true surface
    (#121), and hops clear between off-centre holes (bherbruck, #81).
  • Lathe: turning ops approach from, and rough down from, a bar wider
    than the part (#130). A boring bar's body is checked on its cutting feeds
    (#146). Facing faces the stock allowance above a finished part (#122,
    bherbruck).
  • Axis fit: it no longer leans on one cross hole (#116), reads short bars
    from their facing flats (#152), and refuses normals that only meet at one
    point (#208). Fine-meshed balls (#237) and D-flat bars (#246) read
    correctly again (bherbruck). The rotary wrap names a seam feature or skin
    hole instead of "the mesh is open" (#54).
  • New operations post after their setup's existing ones, not in name order
    (#167, bherbruck).
  • Project files round-trip every float exactly (#169).
  • The Heidenhain DIN/ISO post declares the TNC's .I extension (#52,
    mkinney).
  • Idle frames no longer redraw, resizing stays responsive, and rotated face
    and edge picks no longer freeze (#164).

Changed

  • With a single part (or its named source model), moving or rotating the
    part now carries a non-model stock along in the same undo step (#164).

Known limits: the probe op is not yet created from a picked face, edge or
cylinder (#171); on CPU-rendered stock previews a paused scrub may stay stale
until the mouse moves.

Report a bug or ask for a feature

  • Found a bug? Open a bug report: a
    toolpath that looks wrong, a crash, or a refusal you think is mistaken.
  • Want a feature or an enhancement? Request it:
    say what you are trying to machine and what is in the way.
  • Not sure? Ask on Discord first.

Thanks

Thank you to everyone who contributed to this release:

Contributors

NeoTech, linuxguy123, and 3 other contributors
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