Maybe I shouldn’t bother posting any more always feels like an attack when I do post suggestions.
I would prefer nitty gritty control as well. But they have made it abundantly clear they operate more like apple then google. So my suggestions still on lines of the apparent way they want there users to interact with the tool via over simplifications but at least mine has some rhyme or reason vs a arbitrary 1000 scale that means nothing just so that then can mask power and speed between the pro and basic and also keep tight lipped about actual specs as they change what max speed is etc… (warning fake numbers so do t attack) If they say max speed is 782 and it shows 782 in the ui and then they say well ya know that’s wearing down x bearing and they slow it down to 653 now the us has a change and people complain he my machine go slower. But if they use a arbitrary 1000 scale no one visually sees anything change because at the same time they re scale the PG material… And yo anyone else useing non PG they say o that’s the breaks maybe your material changed and you need to re calibrate… And just hide and mask that they actually nerfed the machine. After all I don’t recall speeds ever being published or guaranteed out put power
They did just recently lower the max cutting speed from 197 in/min to 157 in/min. According to another post it may be increased in the future. Not sure how that will be handled in the UI but I would bet that they won’t set it up to cause a user impact.
Right so exactly… Had they been doing fake numbers would any one have known that there was a change they would just change the 1000=new lower speed and then re scale all the pgPG to accommodate and then never have to tell anyone they made it 20% slower (I did not do the exact% math)
It’s kind of funny that you quickly added the “I did not do the exact math”. Self protection?
Been thinking a lot about all the back and forth discussions, not necessarily this thread specifically. I’m betting that there is not a single comment in the forum where someone couldn’t argue about a point. “The sky is very blue today.” “No it’s not, it’s actually more aqua.” No the sky doesn’t have a color, it is because molecules in the air scatter blue light from the sun more than they scatter red light." “No, Blue to one person might be perceived as purple to another, so it’s arbitrary.”
Thinking one needs to have an argumentative personality to appreciate it.
BTW: Zero disagreement with anything you said and hoping you never read my posts as an attack. I often forget to put the smiley faces on posts and sometimes people read my dry humor based on their moods.
Yup, thus we need both sliders. I like the nice sliders but the arbs are going to be the death of me. They really need to let one of the programmers have a day to add several real unit numbers to the readout.
Would there be a way to set pew pew power as a anchor point and as you slide one bar it slides the other so the time on target powered delivered is still at the anchor?
I think at this point, it’s starting to come back full circle to ProofGrade settings if automation is the intent. But anchoring power and changing the ratio of the other functions that make up power doesn’t have the same results. I just put a post in Beyond The Manual with sample photos.
I agree with this 100%, as its true, and Ive found that older proofgrade settings (1 power/150 speed) give much better results than some of the newer settings (100 power/335 speed) when engraving bitmaps on proofgrade ply.
However, it would be nice to have an auto scaling curve to take advantage of if someone has already done the legwork. …As long as it doesnt remove any current control and only adds that additional sliding scale.
I see it kind of like the ‘maintain aspect ratio’ button in photoshop/illustrator. If you have the button turned on sliding one scale would inversely slide the other to match as closely as possible. Could be cool…
I have lost countless hours of my life defending (mostly unsuccessfully) logic and reason in UI design. Enough hours of interaction with actual users has made me seriously doubt logic and reason as inherently good. Heck, I had a long argument with a programmer at another company that just assumed the numbers sent by a lab device were always in the same units. I said the user can change ours, that is why we send the unit of measure with the number. They just ignored the unit of measure field. The unit of measure cluttered up the screen especially since you didn’t know how long it was going to be and different manufacturers used different abbreviations.
I prefer real units of measure and non-round numbers don’t throw me, if anything they comfort me, but I’m not convinced they made the wrong decision. Round numbers are beloved by people. All of their marketing materials have been directly aimed at the not a regular laser cutter crowd. As I am a big believer in having a product vision and sticking to it I can see it.
sure, and while i get that having an option for every preference needlessly clutters the UI, i think some things are worth a checkbox buried in an advanced menu somewhere.
