Request to add in future versions...
Ability to enable or disable a virtual 'Block Skip/Block Delete' to verify my program.
Option to force decimal points for certain words (X,Z,U,W) while assuming a defined decimal precision of the machine. Some of our old programs have a mix of some blocks with decimal points and some without. It becomes a problem when it was written for a machine with 4 decimal precision and we want to run it on one with 5 decimal precision. I've created a script for this (I'd be willing to share) but it's slow, sometimes NCPlot warns me the script is taking too long to complete and asks if it should continue running it.
Convert program from English to Metric including the correction of feedrates and Surface Speed. Some of our old programs for metric parts were converted to English for programming and gauging. We now have metric gauging and would like the programs to be metric as well.
Ability to select two features and see the distance between (including angles). I often find myself clicking on a rough pass, remembering the number, then clicking on the finish pass, then doing the math in my head to see how much is left for finishing.
Option to choose one color per tool. For example, I'd like to know that whenever I see red I know it's Tool 1 regardless if it was the 1st tool programmed or not.
Ability to optionally add/modify an automatic header that simply says the Date, Time, and Programmer's Initials of when it was modified.
Option to automaticly 'Zoom All' when loading a program. A program that has excessive clearance for rapid moves zooms the whole image out with the current 'Zoom Extents'
I'd like to see a more convenient way to pan the image. I'm a Gibbs Cam user and have gotten very use to holding down Ctrl while clicking and dragging the image to pan. Maybe this could be implemented.
This one's simply a minor annoyance... why is the shortcut key for step forward (F7) the key BEFORE the shortcut key for step backward (F8). I'm a shortcut key using guy, but this one throws me off.
All-in-all NCPlot is an excellent program that has save me countless hours of time and has greatly eased the headaches of programming.
Thank you,
Jon Morgan