Viewing 4th axis toolpathing

[Vmax549]

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

[Battwell]

tell me more

[Vmax549]

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

(;-) TP

[Vmax549]

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

(;-) TP

[Battwell]

thats a cool program! thanks.

are you sharing the macro to call it in uccnc?

[Vmax549]

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

(;-) TP

[Greolt]

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.

[Vmax549]

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

[Dan911]

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.

M20126.txt

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[Battwell]

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