Re: Looking and/or Building GCode Editor software. Please Advice.

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alexella
In terms of editing/ features, I noticed that when I edit a certain line, I don't actually edit it but I only can change the values.
This looks safe.
However, I was thinking that text editing would allow me to add a personal tag so I know where I messed with the gcode. But... I think I can live without it. It's not so important...
Alex

thanks on forum feature answer. yes the editing looks safe i've thought of that. i can make that a simple plain text editing and you can type anything, but currently the sw implement a very limited gcode subset and the data structure is stored as coordinates,feedrate etc only, not the gcode commands. so if you type gcode incompatible command, that wont reflect in the internal data or the saved output later. the sw doesnt even support inline comment iirc. the trick i can advice, but if you can only accept this workaround, is by inputting "special coordinate" so you can search in text editor later. for example if a vertex is at say (3.3, 5.5), you may edit that to (3.2999, 5.5) and search for "999" in text editor. but try it on small sample gcode file first if it works, i dont remember how it save the file output if you put too may decimal places maybe it got translated to engginering notation, i cant remember its been too long. hope it helps.