Hi all,
I am getting some line overflow error in ChiliPeppr grbl workspace. It’s driving me crazy. Seems to happen when i have curves generated using makercam. Any idea what i could be ?
I think grbl may limit lines to 50 characters, although I’m not sure.
I’ve heard something about too many decimal points, but not sure either. Got a tinyg waiting to be hooked up. I guess I’ll have to try that
I’ve run into this many times. If you find the tool in the forums that rounds all the numbers to a certain number of decimal places (in order to make the lines shorter) I think your issue will go away.
The tinyG has a setting called Chordal Tolerance. $ct. It can make the tinyg skip arcs or do some other weird stuff. I have mine set to about 0.005"
@Bill_Dussault He’s using Grbl, so the TinyG settings won’t help him.
@Frank_Graffagnino Thanks man. That fixed all the problems
@Jarret_Luft what if we just add the rounding technique to ChiliPeppr? We already parse the gcode for mm/inch, swap out % signs, etc and then resend it to the workspace if we changed anything. Maybe we should take it a step further and look for this stuff. It’s a pretty easy regexp.
@Jarret_Luft I tried it at first, but couldn’t even get svg to show up or make it work in any way. Tried it again just now and seems to work pretty well. Maybe my comp just needed a restart or something. I think chili is on github right? i think ill just clone it to local add some decimal removal and see if can use it like that without having to take an extra step
@Jarret_Luft Yeah, i was going to do it on the chilipeppr side of things. Looked for it but couldn’t see one for grbl. Thanks for the heads up on the gcode widget
That’s interesting. Didn’t realize there is a difference between what I had offline and what is on the site. I’ve been using them interchangeably. Using the fixed version would remove the need to round.