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Feature Requests / Re: named variables

« on: February 26, 2013, 10:27:40 AM »

User variables with human readable names, not internal variables of MACH3.
I only saw subroutine calls and looks, no conditions in the code.
Of cause that eould be really useful too. As long as it uses the same syntax and semantics as others.

The last reference to MACH4 I just saw was from 2010. Is that actually going to happen within our lifetime?

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Feature Requests / Re: Clipboard support

« on: February 26, 2013, 10:14:09 AM »

I tried pasting a single line. That's the point.
Just copy&pasting coordinates to enter that single line without the risk of typos in long coordinates.
MACH3 is often used on touch screens where typing takes a lot of time.
There's no context menu with copy&paste and CTRL+V is already taken up by some other function in the UI (bad choice of cause).

I didn't see any "edit Gcode". Will look for it.

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Feature Requests / named variables

« on: February 26, 2013, 06:40:43 AM »

EMC2 can work with named variables
e.g.:

#<_xoffset> = -0.28000
instead of
#100 = -0.28000

This was already mentioned here:
http://www.machsupport.com/forum/index.php/topic,18453.msg127162.html#msg127162
but doesn't seem to have a topic in feature-requests yet.

This for example completely prevents me from using the etch_z_adjust script for prototype PCB milling.
(adjusts the PCB2Gcode output to run a 10x10mm grid of Z-probes to determine the actual z location of a not perfectly even PCB suface)

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Feature Requests / Clipboard support

« on: February 26, 2013, 06:36:48 AM »

I can enter a single line of g-code by hand.
But I can neither copy from nor paste to that field.
It would be much easier and much less error-prone to past some coordinates I already have in my clipboard into that text-field.
(Or at least into the g-code list.)