Has anyone here upgraded from a PRO version? Thoughts?

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Hey Tom, hey all,

@Geige

I rarely have to home, the machine homing is so reliable and repeatable. The tool changes become just a short disruption instead of a task you want to avoid. Especially if you add a tool setter, the machine will jog to the tool change position, then you change the tool, press one button and walk away. No more splitting toolpath into different files, upload, home Z.

There is so much potential to make a mistake when changing tools on the buildbotics and screwing up the cut.

I have a working rotary, I don’t even have to home that, the coordinates are saved in my G59 coordinate system.

Every CNC machine has to be homed after power up. Exactly once per uptime. This is because the carriages could have been moved while the machine was off.

Manual tool change during a g-code program works fine on the Buildbotics-derived Onefinity Controller, if you have a working tool-change routine e.g. like this one.

I agree that the Masso brings many good things that the buildbotics does not offer, e.g. some of those that I described here.