AND,
The is another idea that I've played with but haven't brought to completion.
I want to take flat engraving code, and cut it on a cylinder. There are converters out there, but as far as I know none of them can handle G02 or G03 moves. And some of German Bravo's engraving code is written using G02/G03.
So, my idea is to have a page in my screenset devoted to doing just that. When I go to that page a brain would do a swap axis; Y to A, (or is it B?). Then there would be a DRO labeled Diameter, which would actually be the basis of a scaling factor for the Y axis, now actually the rotary axis.
Then code executed from that page would engrave in the correct proportion on the set diameter workpiece.
Switching to any other page would un-swap the axis via the brain.
I had this half done and lost the work in an HD crash. I'd be happy for someone else to implement it.
What think?
Ozzie