gSender adjustments

gSender ❓ Question
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It would be nice if I could make small changes to a tool file in gSender.

Example: When cutting a Dado, if the Dado is found to be too narrow, it would be nice to make the required change and re-run the tool.

Does gSender have this function that I’m unaware of?!?

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@JohnnyL I have moved your question to the gSender Question category.

I assume that you want to be able to edit gcode in gSender, correct? If so, Chris announced in February that the current Edge version has a built-in gcode editor, invited people to try it out and send comments.

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Thanks for moving my thread to the correct location.

I guess I need to look into gSender Edge to see if that would work for me.

This may be too “in the weeds” for me, but I’m up for any new challenge to broaden my CNC knowledge.

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@JohnnyL I made an assumption that may not be valid, John. That’s why I asked. I assumed that you could read, understand and edit gcode. Edge will allow you to edit the gcode. You still need to know which lines to edit and the new values that you want in them, of course.
If you are looking to gSender to be able to edit the toolpaths that you created in your CAD/CAM program, IMHO I can’t see that ever happening.

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Yes @JohnnyL I’d agree with Grant here that outside of tool radius compensation (something which is firmware-side but is always something on our mind to look into in the future) having the ability to adjust the fit on dados after the g-code has already been generated is usually not the role of a g-code sender. How I’d see it is you have these types of typical options:

  1. Go back to CAM and adjust your cutting offsets then re-generate the g-code
  2. If the sender had dado generation built-in, then adjust the offsets within the generator within the sender, then re-generate the g-code
  3. Tool radius compensation (already mentioned above)
  4. Technically you could re-run the same g-code with a marginally larger diameter bit, but this isn’t typically practical

Grant’s suggestion of using the editor is also technically possible, but depending on your file and how knowledgeable you are with g-code this can take a while and requires several line-by-line changes. Technically it would be viable to have an editor that could bulk modify g-code lines for you, but I’m not aware of any tools that can currently do that.