Grblhal in fusion 360

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Hello!
I am waiting for my altmill and bortex to arrive, but meanwhile I am trying to learn everything I can. Although I am profflicient with several cad programs, I am new to cam and g-codes.

I was told by Sienci support that in order to use g-sender I need grblhal, but fusion has only grbl in the library. Also, I need a post processor for vortex.

Can someone help/lead me?

Thanks

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I use grbl for fusion but the altmill gets fed grblhal from gsender.
Can’t help with the vortex question.

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So do I just select grbl when creating the g-code in f360 and gsender converts it to grblhal?

Thank you for your response.

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yes and no
select grbl in fusion
gSender doesn’t convert anything, it talks to your machine in grblHAL which is part of the gSender setup. When you connect to the Altmill you need to specify to connect using grblHAL. Once that is set up, I believe it remembers to keep using grblHAL.
When you select ‘connect’ in gSender, you get a sub menu listing the ports available but underneath is an option for ‘firmware’. Click on that and select grblHAL

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As I understand it, GrblHAL can handle a superset of GRBL GCODE commands, so things created with a GRBL postprocessor will work fine (and has in my case) with my SuperLong Board). CAM programs could create GrblHAL postprocessors that could use enhanced commands.

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Thank you, Jens.
I guess I will have to wait until I get my Altmill to check how it works.

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Thank you, John.
That is the very reason for my question. When I contacted @SienciLabs, they told me that to use g-sender I needed to make sure to use grblhal. Problem is that Fusion 360 doesn’t have a choice for grblhal. It has a couple of grbl options, but not grblhal.

@@SienciLabs also said that they had a pos-processors for Vectric, but not for Fusion 360. Apparently I will need one for F360, but I have no idea how to create one.