Moving from Axis to QtDragon?

Yeah! Just as soon as I can figure out just what I'm missing to get a piece of gcode to run after loading, sure. Once I open a .ngc file (says it doesn't know what an .nc file is?????), nothing I do will allow me to click cycle start. The cycle start button is never active.

I have more than a few questions and the most of them I don't even know what to ask. Never the less, I keep hacking away.

Spyderbreath wrote:

Linuxcnc will open anything. you can even teach it to not complain about .NC files by editing your .INI file

Had a bit of a break and thought a minute and I think I figured this out. There is an entry [FILTER] in the .ini file and I added a line below that PROGRAM_EXTENSION = .nc,.ngc,.gcode G-Code and not only did that work, placing it first in the list makes it the default. Very nice. Thanks for that bit of info. Much appreciated.

If anyone thinks this should be in it;s own thread, let me know, but I still have a few questions about the GUI.

There are override sliders for max velocity, rapid, feed rate, and spindle. The max velocity and rapid default at 100%, shiny. The problem is that 100% is about 3X more than my machine can move. It says its 12000 for both. Need to be set at ~3600 each. Been looking through the config files and I am not seeing those numbers anywhere. Where do they come from?

Those should be in the ini file, the DISPLAY and TRAJ sections.

Yes, I have looked in there and I only see max spindle override and max feed override. I do not see max velocity override or max rapid override. Not in my .ini file or any of the qtdragon .ini's. Maybe I should try and add those? Like MAX_VELOCITY_OVERRIDE =x.x and MAX_RAPID_OVERRIDE =x.x ?

Edit: And I just tried it, no change. Adding those into display with the feed and spindle did nothing.