Sending GCode to Carbide Motion (3rd Party)

[WillAdams (William Adams (Carbide 3D))]

I believe that there are a couple of misunderstandings here:

Carbide Create runs in two different licensing modes:

• bundled: Carbide Create CAD/CAM Software for CNC Routers
• Pro: Carbide Create Pro

as explained at:

https://carbide3d.com/blog/carbide-create-v7/

Basically, Carbide Create as bundled stores G-code in .c2d files which requires Carbide Motion to extract the G-code.

If you have Pro, then you may write out G-code as shown at:

https://carbide3d.com/hub/courses/create-pro/g-code-output/

which may then be used with your choice of unsupported 3rd party Communication/Control program for Grbl.

While it is possible to use Carbide Motion to extract G-code:

this is sufficiently awkward that few folks use it for more than just the occasional review of G-code.

What platform do you wish to use? We have Mac OS, Windows, Raspberry Pi, and Linux is in the works:

Carbide Motion on Linux

As we’ve hinted at before, we’d like to more from the static 3D rendering for toolpaths in Carbide Motion, to a live 3D rendered version that can be zoomed/rotated live based on customer requests. The problem is the Raspberry Pi build. We have customers that run G-code files that are more than 100MB for dense 3D machining, and the PI doesn’t have a GPU that can support that much data being rendered. We tried a few “really clever ideas” (hacks) that didn’t work at all, so we’ve been sitting on…

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