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user-inactivated  ·  2228 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: October 24, 2018

    I asked a vendor for his price on an esoteric piece of software that makes it easier to hand-code G-code, the 60-year-old plaintext language that runs CNC. I was told, by the vendor, that in a well-run lab you never need to hand-code G-code therefore I shouldn't buy their software.

Now I'm curious what this software does. There's an emacs mode for g-code, but all it does is syntax highlighting. It probably wouldn't be too hard to teach it to hand your script off to camotics to simulate it. That looks to be the extent of what everything in the first page of google results for "g-code editor" does.