NC Files

I would like to have the nc_files location on the root directory of my Ubuntu machine. Will LinuxCNC still work and allow this? I would also like Linuxcnc to run programs with the .txt,.ngc,.pu,.nc file extensions can this be added also?

PROGRAM_PREFIX=

www.linuxcnc.org/docs/html/config/ini_co...ub_display_section_a

[FILTER]

www.linuxcnc.org/docs/html/config/ini_co...sub_filter_section_a

regards

So as long as my .ini file is correct for what i want it to do LinuxCNC doesn't care. Thanks, ArcEye

Will this work, I want to open bascially any file type.

FILTER]
PROGRAM_EXTENSION = .png,.gif,.jpg Grayscale Depth Image
PROGRAM_EXTENSION = .py Python Script
PROGRAM_EXTENSION = .ngc gcode file
PROGRAM_EXTENSION = .txt possible gcode file
PROGRAM_EXTENSION = .nc possible gcode file
PROGRAM_EXTENSION = .NGC gcode file
PROGRAM_EXTENSION = .TXT possible gcode file
PROGRAM_EXTENSION = .NC possible gcode file
png = image-to-gcode
gif = image-to-gcode
jpg = image-to-gcode
py = python
ngc = gcode file
txt = gcode file
nc = gcode file
NGC = gcode file
TXT = gcode file
NC = gcode file

Will this work, I want to open bascially any file type.

Try it, if you don't want to mess up your own config, try editing one of the sim config ini files.

It should do, you will just have to change the file type to any file in the file selecting dialog, or you won't see them.

regards

Hi

Now back in front of a linux machine

Your entry would not have worked, largely because you have the entry 'gcode file' where in fact there should be an executable which is used to load that file.
You could use /usr/bin/axis but that is unnecessary because all files are loaded by axis, it is just that some require the output from another file to be loaded and not the file itself, eg image-to-gcode

This is the optimal entry

You can add any file extensions to the list in the comma seperated fashion shown

Listing them produces a menu entry on the file chooser dialog, so that files with those extensions are visible

Note the pic below lists the same extensions as my list and that the file loaded is actually a .txt file





regards

How do you make it recognize gcode files that do not have an extension?


We are going to take Gmoccapy for a spin and it does not have the option to "show all files" whe nyou try to load a program.



Thanks

Rick

Hi

You will have to ask Norbert on his thread re Gmoccapy, I don't know anything about it.

If it still uses the ini file entries but does not have a default 'All Files' drop down, you could probably add it like so

regards