yep true - I simply copied TimS’ typo - it is -gcc for GCodeClean
And lo - a new GCodeClean has been released: v0.9.6 - Release FileNotFoundException & Tweak Tolerances · md8n/GCodeClean
FileNotFoundException is now returned as Exit code 2 (Exit code 0 means success).
The default or user supplied tolerances are now tweaked into more limited ranges of ‘sensibleness’ based on the units in use in the GCode (mm / inch)
And a little update to the README
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I’ve added a linux-arm build to the releases - v0.9.6 - now including linux-arm
This should work out ofthe box on a Raspberry Pi (32 bit) - if someone wants to test it
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For random intermixing of metric and imperial I’d just set a flag/store a conversion factor, either 25.4 or the reciprocal . Stay with the original units, convert the aberrant ones. If the hand gcoders care they can use another utility, and with a bizarre CAM program that flops around anybody that complains can do the same. I suspect you’ll only see it in testing but there are strange people out there…
I’ve been using a non-Maslow rotary axis router lately, a Bob’s Revolution, that uses XZA axes, haven’t tried GCodeClean with it but I’m guessing you don’t support rotary axes. Could be fun, in a hair pulling out kind of way. It was just converted to FluidNC and an ESP32 controller and other than some home switch issues (of course, they’re abominations, and one is sticky), and UGS’s visualizer dying on nearly 150K lines of gcode files it’s been working pretty well.
I’ve literally just been thinking about the issues of a rotary axis. I haven’t started exploring anything yet though
I’m having fun with the Revo. My eventual goal is to do ornamental turning, but I’ve been planning on that for around 10 years or so and never gotten to it. VCarve will do OK rotary wrapping, haven’t tried Scorch’s gcodewrapper yet, and UGS (at least with grbl)'s visualizer displays it properly but can’t jog or zero the A without writing macros.
I can send you some large test files if/when you need them. I don’t even want to think about how arcs would work on it. It also seems that you have to keep track of cutting speeds yourself since A is in degrees per minute and not units as the bit spins. Not sure if VCarve actually does that, but so far it hasn’t proven a problem.
My plan, in the first case is to ‘fail’ the run. I am going to assume that this would be something rare. And then later if someone squeaks enough about it I’ll convert everything to a single unit (whatever they started with)
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