Gcodetools - Inkscape's CAM extension

I've got almost the same behavior:

Create new file + save (as) 1.nc = Gcode

Create new file + save (as) 1.ngc = Text
Create new file + save (as) 1.ngc + close file + open 1.ngc = Gcode

So it appears that it looks only at the first option in the .lang file to determine language when saving the file.... But when you Open file it looks through all possibilities...

I think you just figured it out. That seems to be the case.

EDIT: I'm not sure about that now. I have a bunch of very simple .nc files and just opened one and it defaults to plain text.
So open doesn't always work either.

EDIT2: I just put ONLY *.NCD in the file types and now it works. For some reason it's not liking the mulltiple file types.

Here's what I'm using. It opens as plain text as the lang.

ok not letting me upload it as .nc. Weird for a CNC forum. I suppose I could change it to a .txt but all there is to it is basically a G90 and some G00 and G01 commands.

Just pack the file with tar.gz or zip, and forum will accept it.

Just edited post #24371 after more tests.

EDIT: Too weird... I just redid a few things in your code and now .NCD works but .nc doesn't.

Here's what I did:
I just changed the file types and put "Sources" in the _section since I saw other languages had Sources instead of Other.

I don't think changing "Other" to "Sources" did anything. But not sure there. Haven't tested it.


EDIT2: Some .nc files open as Plain Text and others as GCode. If I save one as GCode language it will later open with GCode.

Hmmm... I'm totally confused.

If we
Create new file + save as ngc = Text file
Create new file + save file as .nc + save as ngc = Gcode languge
Create new file + save file as .c it becomes C + save as ngc = Gcode languge

It appears that it wont change file parsing type only if saving from the text file...

In GEdit Is there a way to do math operations to say ALL Z-axis coordinates?

in other words shift all of the Z's up by a set amount?

I'm afraid no.

But you can use Regular expression extension for that.

for example, change
Z([\-\d\.\s]+)
to
Z[#<zoffset>+[\1]]

and define #<zoffset> = 10 at the top.

Or you can use parameterize Gcode postprocessor from Gcodetools to add this parameters to Gcode automaticaly.

I'm having a problem with area fill. I can get the area filled in properly with the Area tool, and the drawing looks correct. When I generate the gcode, it still looks good in inkscape, but in the actual .ncg file, some paths are repeated over and over - 55 times in the attached file!

I've been deiting the duplicate paths out with Gedit, but that's tedious and unnecessary. Any ideas what I might be doing wrong?

Walt