synman
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4 years ago hmm.... curious what the significance of the "%" character is. Absent doing any further research at the moment, if you remove it from the beginning and end of your gcode file one of two things will happen:
- (ideal path) all subsequent commands get parsed properly and you're a happy camper
- we find another incompatibility between your gcode creator and the plugin's parser.
Here's existing logic for handling comments:
Hi, I am trying to run a pen plotter with a Ramps 1.3 board, GRBL for Ramps, and using Inkscape and Gcodetools to generate the g code. I can control the plotter with the Universal Gcode Sender, but I can't seem to be able to send a file over and plot it with this Octoprint plug in. I can jog all three axis as much as I like, but sending the gcode file gives me the following: " Recv: ok Send: ?$G Recv: <Idle,MPos:0.000,0.000,0.000,WPos:10.000,30.000,60.898> Recv: [G0 G54 G17 G21 G90 G94 M0 M5 M9 T0 F0.] Recv: ok Changing monitoring state from "Operational" to "Starting" Changing monitoring state from "Starting" to "Printing" Send: % Recv: error: Expected command letter Send: M3 Changing monitoring state from "Printing" to "Error: error: Expected command letter" Send: M112 Send: N1 M11232 Send: N2 M104 T0 S035 Changing monitoring state from "Error: error: Expected command letter" to "Offline (Error: error: Expected command letter)" Connection closed, closing down monitor " Here is the gcode I am trying to print: % (Header) (Generated by gcodetools from Inkscape.) (Using default header. To add your own header create file "header" in the output dir.) M3 (Header end.) G21 (All units in mm)
(Start cutting path id: path595) (Change tool to Default tool)
G00 Z35.000000 G00 X-491.779890 Y-122.049310
G01 Z-1.000000 F800.0(Penetrate) G02 X-490.116910 Y-125.322640 Z-1.000000 I-0.343640 J-2.233677 F800.000000 G02 X-492.648940 Y-127.698140 Z-1.000000 I-4.631748 J2.399763 G02 X-499.796749 Y-126.487713 Z-1.000000 I-2.654200 J6.036252 G02 X-503.077560 Y-120.311210 Z-1.000000 I7.295371 J7.834722 G02 X-499.430246 Y-109.549923 Z-1.000000 I12.101184 J1.897290 G02 X-489.172740 Y-105.102810 Z-1.000000 I11.170787 J-11.712721 G02 X-474.733751 Y-111.086223 Z-1.000000 I1.015228 J-17.963653 G02 X-469.184560 Y-125.525510 Z-1.000000 I-16.306012 J-14.552550 G02 X-477.472486 Y-143.668194 Z-1.000000 I-23.732349 J-0.122992 G02 X-496.125130 Y-150.293480 Z-1.000000 I-17.935954 J20.926672 G02 X-517.984062 Y-139.714657 Z-1.000000 I0.766229 J29.456126 G02 X-525.672890 Y-116.835020 Z-1.000000 I25.550664 J21.318197 G02 X-512.810249 Y-91.252855 Z-1.000000 I35.155714 J-1.651462 G02 X-485.696550 Y-82.507480 Z-1.000000 I24.699480 J-30.173337 G02 X-456.386877 Y-97.649806 Z-1.000000 I-2.533458 J-40.841038 G02 X-446.589220 Y-129.001700 Z-1.000000 I-34.794026 J-28.080205 G02 X-464.008627 Y-162.041697 Z-1.000000 I-46.517274 J3.412977 G02 X-499.601330 Y-172.888810 Z-1.000000 I-31.460554 J39.412880 G02 X-536.373594 Y-153.194088 Z-1.000000 I4.290612 J52.187397 G02 X-548.268220 Y-113.358820 Z-1.000000 I44.030192 J34.840685 G02 X-526.299424 Y-72.852883 Z-1.000000 I57.853254 J-5.166820 G02 X-482.220350 Y-59.912150 Z-1.000000 I38.220659 J-48.646209 G02 X-437.979696 Y-84.154109 Z-1.000000 I-6.041905 J-63.515983 G02 X-423.993890 Y-132.477900 Z-1.000000 I-53.261231 J-41.600566 G00 Z35.000000
(End cutting path id: path595)
(Start cutting path id: rect10) (Change tool to Default tool)
G00 Z35.000000 G00 X-330.136360 Y-85.549170
G01 Z-1.000000 F800.0(Penetrate) G01 X-112.873540 Y-85.549170 Z-1.000000 F800.000000 G01 X-112.873540 Y-125.525530 Z-1.000000 G01 X-330.136360 Y-125.525530 Z-1.000000 G01 X-330.136360 Y-85.549170 Z-1.000000 G00 Z35.000000
(End cutting path id: rect10)
(Footer) M5 G00 X0.0000 Y0.0000 M2 (Using default footer. To add your own footer create file "footer" in the output dir.) (end) %
Thanks for any pointers you can give me.