New here, I’m usually on /r/hobbycnc but I’m a FluidNC-er (and Estlcam-er) so some folks suggested I share this here…
Made a new machine this year with a FluidNC Corgi board. Previously I had a Duet machine - the FluidNC board is much easier to work with but I still found the UI missing a few things for my workflow.
I tried adjusting a bit but ultimately opted to code up a new UI (concede with help from Claude!)
So far so good - got lots of hours on this and it works well. I haven’t yet tried squeezing this onto the FluidNC board itself - it will probably fit but for now runs on Caddy on my computer as I still tinker with it.
Thanks! It’s certainly different but geared around my own workflow. Some of the things I added:
Changing nudge distance with one click (each click on a unit sets that as the default)
The dot grid just moves the spindle to a place on the table with one click
The files list is sortable/searchable; remembers dates uploaded and used; and the tool used (parsed from the gcode comment)
Easily move zero to tile workpieces (TBC some sort of auto tiling UI)
The obvious omissions are macros and terminal - I can still access the existing UI if required but I don’t actually need them since the features here cover my use cases
It’s actually not based around the existing WebUI at all - I started from scratch. It’s the sort of project that technically I could do but never got round to - until I had AI to do the donkey work!
