I hope D00 falls on its face and never happens, or stays on option.
Just like Haas... Take a control that is super easy to use and there are tons of them out there and make wholesale changes.
And a touch screen? Really? Did a single shop complain about how the knobs and buttons on the C00 work?
One of the reasons I keep buying Brothers is because they are just like a race car. Everything on them has a purpose. There's no fluff. No stupid graphics or video games or dxf translators or any other marketing bullshit, they are simple and just work all day every day. But now with the touch screen D00 I get this nasty feeling in my gut that the marketing department has taken over.
The backend of the Speedio is pure magic. I am convinced there are magic Japanese pixies running the thing and they come out and smoke cigarettes when I go home.
The front end?
The UI?
Fucking awful
It is like someone who mythologizes the wonders of 1988 DOS controlled the design. Enter one menu to manipulate files, back out two steps and enter another[visually identical] menu to actually edit files.
Now mind you I learned this control while simultaneously learning G code after 30 years of programing exclusively heidenhain, so that added a layer to my frustration.
In the mid 1980s, that is 35 years ago, Heidenhain built controls that when you hit enter in the last character of a program line, you had perfect executable code. Program gets munged in communication, control parses it on the way in and you will get the error 'wrong program data' before getting anywhere near pushing the cycle start button.
No helical threading cycle?
No circular pocket cycle?
Come on.
I could go on but look, I don't regret getting the machine for a nanosecond. But pretending that the UI on the control is something to be happy about?
Get real.
Perhaps when you guys come from a 1979 Fanuc control it seems like the cats meow, but coming from a machine that was designed as if, you know, actual humans will interface with it, it comes up short.
While ease of use has little to do with efficiency of program run, it helps prevent mistakes.
Mistakes cost money
Mistakes cause crashes and downtime.
It is a truly great machine, but the things that will make it better are an improved operator interface, and that sounds like the direction they are going.