My programmer brain is going off the deep end on how useful variables and loops could be in GCode. I know FluidNC doesn’t support this. I’m looking for feedback on if this is crazy or not and what current functionality exists elsewhere. I want to be able to do things like this without having to c…

[image] Jonathan Jones: Now we need one for setting Y squareness LOL. But I’m not even sure how you could go about that one I’m wondering if you can get away with measuring a single diagonal. If you can assume that the motors are moving the exact distance and you’re moving Y on the rail side…

A single one is fine. The reason I have people manually do two is so they can see the actual error. Like a magnified less than 1mm error across a 8 foot diagonal really should drive home the accuracy at that point. But on paper if some said a little less than a mm and off people scream about crap ac…

I’m more thinking about the new user who might be intimidated messing with pull off settings and all in fluidNC. Your Z code takes all that away and does it for you. That’s what made me think about the Y axis. I have no issue doing it with the big X like Ryan shows. So please don’t go out of your wa…

Yea, this is on my list to try at some point, but not at the moment. I was also thinking this functionality could be used for probing a grid of the spoilboard to see high and low spots similar to 3d printers. No mesh leveling or anything like that, but it might lead you to shim table legs or decid…

[image] Jason Yeager: My time and interest ebbs and flows, so someday. I get that completely!! What you have done with the Z leveling is amazing and very much appreciated!!

The input prompting stuff may come later, but this is super helpful. [image] WebUI v3 Extension - Hold Monitor Jackpot Board / FluidNC This came up in another thread about automating Z leveling with gcode. It would be nice to have a popup display with an appropriate mess…

I have always thought the most automatic thing in V carves or sheet work is to probe a grid only over the pattern. Automatically defining the grid to probe before the job and doing a mesh level would be awesome. Marlin has custom grid gcode. At one point I thought of trying to add it to octoprint wh…

[image] Jason Yeager: There’s a fix to the $CD=config.yaml bug in the FluidNC Fix1320 branch. This just got merged into the main branch so that’s promising.

[image] Jason Yeager: This just got merged into the main branch so that’s promising. Awesome! I just got back in town so looking forward to trying it!

Fix is in the new 3.8.3 release. I haven’t installed it yet. [image] Release v3.8.3 · bdring/FluidNC Bug Fixes Serial XModem Uploads Better failure handling by sending EOT character G93 (Feed rate inverse time mode) Fix Inverse time mode was incorrectly being applied to G0 moves. …

GCode Variables and Loops

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jeyeager (Jason Yeager) September 15, 2024, 8:10pm 56

The input prompting stuff may come later, but this is super helpful.