Think about a gcode interpreter

[jgvictores]

Just a fun idea commented with @PeterBowman yesterday: Develop a program that opens a .gcode file (pretty sure that inkscape can export this, which is cool for example after vectorizing a bitmap), and can create an instance of an object that inherits from Trajectory that is runnable via BasicCartesianControl (note that some methods to do this still do not exist).

[jgvictores]

Blocked by #134 and #135.

[jgvictores]

Just for completeness, the syntax we were thinking about is similar to:

./launchGcode --file whatever.gcode --orient 1 0 0 0

[David-Estevez]

There is a specific need for the gcode? You can obtain the trajectory directly from a SVG file, without the need to convert to gcode, if you are careful with the desired dimensions of the trajectory.

[jgvictores]

No, it's just an idea, no practical use-case. The benefit of .gcode is we could even use slic3r-generated trajectories. 😄

[PeterBowman]

Any trajectory classes we envisioned have been superseded by KDL: #134 (comment). Perhaps we can write a small script to convert from gcode to text, and then use our playback app (see tools repo). @jgvictores shall we close this as invalid or wontfix?

[jgvictores]

shall we close this as invalid or wontfix?

Yup!

[jgvictores]

• https://github.com/DAguirreAg/GCode-to-ABB
• "G-Code to RAPID translator for RobotStudio" by Daniel Nilsson (2016), https://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:1034182/FULLTEXT01.pdf