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Support G2/G3 Arcs #30

Open reffu42 opened 1 year ago

reffu42 commented 1 year ago

Files that contain Arcs are not rendered properly by pgcode. It looks like the renderer attempts to draw a straight line from the start of the arc to the end of the arc, instead of following the path of the curve/arc. This leaves a mess that doesn't particularly resemble the printed part:

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It's not urgent, but if it's not a lot of effort to properly support, it would be helpful to be able to view printed files with arcs in them as they print. (could make arc resolution settings a configuration option somewhere if needed).

I know that ideally we should not use something like ArcWelder for Klipper prints outside of Octoprint, but I have a few already sliced gcode files run through ArcWelder. that I'd like to use without recreating