G-code support

[m2pmd70]

My boss has me researching a 2nd CNC for our shop and the ShopBot looks good, especially now that I see G-code support has been added. We've been running a PracticalCNC machine with BobCAD v21 & WinCNC for nearly a year.

My question is how well is g-code supported? Would I be able to run my existing g-code programs on the shopbot out of the box?

[bcammack]

G-code as a universal language is somewhat of a fallacy. The G-code programs for our Fanuc-based Northwood will not run on our proprietary Omag Mill4x machines, nor vice-versa. Any G-code program that would run on both machines without error probably wouldn't accomplish very much useful work at all.

IOW - I wouldn't bet the farm that they'd run without some modifications.

[bill.young]

Mike,

There's a list of the G-Code commands that the ShopBot software supports in the "Control Software" section of the ShopBot wiki.

http://shopbotwiki.com/index.php?title=GCodeMain


You could also download the Control software and try running them in Preview mode and see if you get any errors...
Bill