Converting gcode line by line for use with colorpod.

[Aad van der geest]

Hi,

  I am the maker of the colorpod. http://www.spitstec.nl/colorpod . Someone asked me whether he could use my device on a makerbot. The Colorpod works with pc software that sends lines of gcode to one comm port and inkjet print data to another comm port. These two sets of data needs to be synchronized. Is it possible to let gpx converter convert gcode commands line by line? Does the Makerbot give out "ok' or ack messages so that i can synchronize?.

Thank you for your time.

Aad

[Mark Walker]

I wired up GPX to do line by line in an OctoPrint plugin. It took a few hundred lines of code to do it. You could probably write enough lines to make it look like a com port to your software too.

Yes, the x3g protocol is a call and response protocol. For this purpose it should be more reliable than gcode based firmwares because x3g always responds in the functional case and if busy it will say so. Some gcode based firmwares answer out of order and don't reply when doing long operations.