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For those doing 4th axis work it IS possible to view your toolpath inside of UCCNC before pushing the {CYCLESTART} button. The process is called from a macro. It can handle G94 code as well as G93 code.

(;-) TP

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It also displays a 4th axis INDEXING program Very well.

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I used a product called Basic CNC Viewer to do it.

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thats a cool program! thanks.

are you sharing the macro to call it in uccnc?

I am still ironning out a few things with the author of the program. When it all runs smooth I will post the macro.

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That program looks interesting. I will have a play with it.

Coming from Mach3, I miss the visualisation of rotary toolpaths in UCCNC.

Look forward to seeing your macro to load it TP.

The 4th axis toolpath looks teh same as IF mach3 plotted it out. It can do G93 toolpathing as well as G94 and 4th axis INDEXED toolpaths.

I have had a LOT of people ask me about 4th axis toolpaths for UCCNC. This is the only way I have found so far to do it.

It takes teh loaded Gcode file name and uses that to open the Viewer. There are a few quirks about it though that I am trying to work out. But even a bit quirky it is WAY better than NO 4th axis toolpathing.

IT also can display Turn Gcode (;-)

Just a thought, (;-) TP

Dezsoe put out and external code editor macro a while back and with a quick test works fine. It will load the gcode file loaded in UCCNC into program when button pressed.

Put macro in profile folder and create a button 20126 . Edit the program path exe in macro to match path of your exe file location.

that macro opens the viewer but doesnt load the file for me. testing in demo mode.