With PlanetCNC TNG user can create his own custom tabs.
Tabs are displayed on main user interface and can include any parameter used by software whether its tool offset value, number of g-code line or absolute position of machine. By default, software will display tabs “Speed” and “IO”.
User can create maximum of 5 state files, meaning, you can display up to 5 custom tabs. File with extension .state1 creates first tab file, .state2 creates second tab file all the way up to .state5 file.
To create new custom tab go to your PlanetCNC TNG installation folder and create new text file and change its name to PlanetCNC64 or PlanetCNC32 and its extension to “state1“: PlanetCNC64.state1 or PlanetCNC32.state1
It is worth mentioning that the text before .state must be the same as name of your settings file. So, if your settings file is named: MyCNCRouter.settings, then your corresponding .state file should be named MyCNCRouter.state1. This way you can link multiple state files to corresponding setting files.
Now open this file and copy/paste bottom example text for an easy start:
If we look parameter “_abs_x 3” you can see that at the end we add number 3. Since this parameter is X axis absolute position value, this number means number of decimal places.
If parameter uses Boolean logic you add instead of number a letter B.
Now that we created state file and we configured it, “My new tab” tab should appear after we restart PlanetCNC TNG software:
If we click “My new tab” tab we can see the parameters displayed:
Parameter 1 displays X axis absolute position
Parameter 2 displays Total run time of g-code file
Parameter 3 displays SPU value of X axis
We can change names of parameters to make them more understandable:
Now parameter names are much easier to understand:
You can download state file with all parameters here: All parameter .state file
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