Hi,
Visualization is very useful. Seeing how the lines move in relation to the spindle is a big advantage and can help prevent crashes.
You are misconstruing what I said, I have nothing against visulaisation at all, but rather find that it can be too cluttered and
therefore obscure that potential 'crash' situation. For that reason I like to turn off or make invisible G0s so I can focus on
the G1s. You may chose otherwise but having too much on the smallish toolpath screen is a pain.
In my opinion the gcode viewer of mach4 should be expanded even more as it is too rudimentary. Like adding 3D models of bed/spindle/vice etc to it. Maybe even a visualization of the workpiece and how the tool machines it.
That's what a Gcode viewing program does, and because such programs specialize is displaying complex 3D visualizations they do
a much MUCH
MUCH better job than Mach4. Further Mach4 is a machine control program, not a toolpath simulator and
I would rather the developers enhance machine control and allow the user to 'socket' in their favourite toolpath simulator.
You must now go to Operator > Edit Screen. Then click the large gray area designated to the paths
And I said:
Go to screen edit mode and click on the toolpath window.
Aren't they the same?
Craig