I just received the TLS and had a couple issues that I figured would be covered in the forums somewhere. While digging, I noticed that it seems the tool descriptions are shown differently between Fusion (what I use) and V-Carve in the post-processed machine files.
V-Carve displays the tool number and description where Fusion does not:
I checked some boxes in Fusion and changed a couple things in the tool setup itself, but no success. Is there a change or something in the grbl/grblHAL post-processor in Fusion to make this work?
gSender annotates the Tool Timeline with any comments, (..) or ;… on lines with a M6. If you want the same information, you’d need to have Fusion append a comment containing tool information with M6 commands.
I think the default grbl postprocessor already appends the tool comment section as a comment next to M6 (so your annotations would need to go there), but I’m not an avid Fusion user so hopefully someone can confirm/correct me.
You’re correct, the tool.comment variable shows below the M6 line in the NC file but does not appear in the gSender tool dialog.
I messed around with the gcode and simply added “; <>” after the M6 command and the tool name appeared, similar to how the Vectric files look. Success, but a manual activity.
I think I’m going to poke around in the grbl forums to see if anyone has tackled this somehow.
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