I agree that what you describe would be great, and really lift AXIS up to a whole new level when it comes to previewing gcode for >3 axis machines. One stumbling block is that there are a lot of different possible machines (maybe as many as 120 for machines up to 5 axes; I haven't completely thought this through). Another is that things that are currently straight lines in the preview (e.g., G0 X0 A0) may or may not become curved in this kind of preview.
With that complaint about the difficulty of the feature out of the way, I hope I'll be able to work on this feature sometime in the next month or so. I think it would be a pity for emc2.3 to not have this implemented, at least for a few specific machine configurations. My first "target" will hopefully hit all the hard parts: the 5-axis machines that can be commanded in XYZ AB UVW coordinates. Jeff ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
