unsolved Please more decimal places in interface

[Randy]

@chrisko, first of all heartfelt thanks for this great software!

I use inches for my gcode. Here in the USA many components and tooling are in inches, and inch gcode uses 4 decimal places--nnn.nnnn.

However, the DXF2GCODE interface only uses 2 decimal places--perfectly reasonable for millimeter gcode. But this causes a problem which requires me to do search-and-replace in a text editor.

I am using DXF2GCODE for a drag knife. Cutting self-adhesive vinyl, my cut depth is -.0150" and my swivel (slice) depth is -.0050". Unfortunately both show up as -.01 in the interface



This is transmitted to the gcode, and I need to use the text editor to change all the Z-0.0100 to Z-0.0150. My current cutting does not need to use the slice depth, or that would be a bigger problem. I would need to set a mill depth of, say, -.0200" so that I could distinguish it from the slice depth when I edit the gcode file.

I would much appreciate a fix to this interface problem!

 

[chrisko]

Ok, i will check that too. I guess this is only a optical issue and if you input the values they are not rounded to any value but only in showing them again. I am right?

 

[chrisko]

Just checked that. This should be the way i explained before. Would be ablte to make a kind of prototype to be checked. Are you able to test updated python files on you pc?

 

[Randy]

Hi @chrisko , thank you for your replies! I did edit config.cfg to my desired values using notepad, and they do now appear correctly in the gcode. So yes, it is just a visual problem in the interface.

I am sorry, I cannot test in python. @spicer compiled the new Windows executable for me on Saturday.

I do run simple hand-written Python programs in the interpreter on a Raspberry Pi at work, but my Python knowlege is at infant level...

Thank you again!

 

[Randy]

@chrisko, the more I use the program, I am realizing that it is not just a visual interface problem. The software is really writing the rounded values to the gcode.

I want the dragknife depth to be .015", but I am setting at .020" and the slice depth at .010". That way, the software treats them as .02" and .01" and I can use search-and-replace in a text editor to set them at .015" and .005" which I really want.

I'd really appreciate setting the interface decimal places to 4 for inch mode.

Thanks again,

Randy