Can you select, copy, and paste the code you see on screen to a text file?
On Sunday, September 20, 2020, 8:07:24 AM MDT, Martin Dobbins <tu...@hotmail.com> wrote: freecad has an export menu that claims to do gcode, but it does not create the code, nor does it report any error I understand when going thru the motions. freecad screenshot attached. A simple torus shape, 50mm in diameter, 35mm tall, with a 28mm center hole. Good morning Gene, I've looked through the midden heap of my drag knife folder and I have been unable to locate a file with g code. This bugged me because I *know* I saw readable g code from that project, then i remembered how I had seen g-code (on screen) which is pretty much as described in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWU621P0gZk I know I expected to have human readable code at the end of this project (pity I didn't complete it) because I'm working on a desktop that is not connected to the CNC so I expected a text file at the end that I could edit and rename to a .ngc file to transfer to the CNC machine. If you can wait, I'll have a go at replicating the torus you made and see if I can send the g code. If that works I will (try) to tell you how I did it. Later today, I hope. Martin _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users