Touch-first control software for your KFLOP or Kogna machine — with a native phone pendant included.
The full Control screen running a real job.
Your phone is the pendant — a free app for iPhone & Android, included. Pairs to your machine over WiFi in seconds.
Works with your existing KFLOP/Kogna setup — same motors, drives, I/O and configs. You're adding a screen, not changing your electronics.
DRO, jog pad, toolpath viewer, program list, feed and spindle overrides, and machine state — one dense cockpit built for a shop touchscreen. Everything that matters mid-cut is already in front of you. No menu-diving with a tool spinning.
Watch the toolpath render and follow the tool as it cuts.
The E-STOP stays on screen at all times.
A machine state machine gates every control, so a button that looks live is live.
Soft-limit approach — the machine eases into its limits instead of slamming them.
Limit checking — HelmCNC checks your program against the work envelope and warns you before a job would run past the limits.
Generate toolpaths right inside HelmCNC — no separate CAM package. Surface a slab, flatten a spoilboard, import a DXF and cut it, or drop in a quick rectangle. Set depth, tool and lead-ins, preview, and send to the machine.
Draw a part and generate the toolpath right in the app — no CAM package.
Browse, preview and load G-code straight from the machine.
Tool table, lengths and offsets, all in one place.
Your buttons for homing, probing, park and custom routines.
Live KFLOP I/O, positions and status when something's off.
Axes, units, limits and connection — set once, forget.
A native app for iPhone and Android — download it free from the App Store or Google Play. Pair to your machine over your local WiFi in seconds; nothing cloud, nothing to sign into.
Run and pause jobs, jog, and nudge feed & spindle — plus programmable buttons for vacuum, dust extraction, coolant/mist and your own outputs, right from your phone.
Jog with your thumb — the joystick and jog buttons are right there.
Watch progress from anywhere in the shop.
Watch the cut live through your phone's camera.
E-STOP always on screen.
Free on the App Store & Google Play · runs on the phone you already carry
Full CAM workspace — nesting, tabs, ramps and simulation.
V-carving, rasters and photo engraving from the same cockpit.
Camera-based work alignment and edge finding.
Guided setup with a reference puck and auto work-zero.
Not shipping today — listed so you know where HelmCNC is going, not to pad the box.
Everything in V1, including the native phone pendant. 24 months of updates included.
Six monthly payments ($270 total) and the license is yours — the same perpetual license. Own it in 6 months.
After the included 24 months, an optional $19/yr keeps updates coming. Skipping it never disables your software — the version you bought works forever. And there's a 14-day, full-featured trial before any money changes hands.
This is HelmCNC's first release. Desktop updates ship often — they download quietly in the background and turn on the next time you open the app. The phone pendant updates through the App Store and Google Play. And we build to customer feedback: tell us what you need and it goes on the list.
A Windows PC and a Dynomotion KFLOP or Kogna controller. If KMotionCNC runs your machine today, HelmCNC runs on the same board and the same wiring — nothing about the electronics changes.
It keeps working — forever. Renewal only adds new updates. The version you own never expires, never phones home to check, and never stops.
It activates against your controller board. That pairing is what lets us sell it once instead of renting it — your license lives with the machine it runs.
Yes. 14 days, full-featured, nothing crippled and no card required — long enough to run real parts and decide it earns a spot on the shop PC.
Planned. The controller layer is pluggable — KFLOP and Kogna ship first, and other controllers follow from there.
Email support@helmcnc.com — a builder answers, not a ticket bot. Not happy in the first 30 days? We refund it.