Stephen Dubovsky wrote: > W/ problem like these it seems simpler to me to create a custom > configuration for the machine than to generate 'proper' g-code. Just > generate the text/engraving in the XY plane (which is typ easy to do w/ > lots of programs) and create a custom HAL file that drives the A axis motor > from Y's commands. > You could actually create the engraving in XY, and then write a simple converter program (maybe even just text substitution in a text editor) to change all Y's to A's. If you made it such that the Y scale worked out to degrees, this would be trivial. If you needed a scale conversion in the numbers, then a program that parses the G-code, so a scale could be applied to the Y value would be the way to go.
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