Hi all,I am currently building a CNC machine/laser cutter/3D printer/whatever. The software I am using a open source software written for the arduino called "GRBL" which is actually written in optimized C and flashed to the arduino. This allows me to stream Gcode to the arduino via serial and a processing sketch called "gctrl". This has a very basic text based gui and limited commands. I want to use LIFA and GRBL together somehow. With my labview vi I can only move the steppers individually and can't process gcode and send it to them. I was going to inport the GRBL code into LIFA and make a seperate function to parse Gcode to it and control my spindle and all that jazz but GRBL is written in C. I think the reason they did this is to minimize the space used on a regualr Arduino Uno. I was going to usea Mega so that both codes could be integrated and loaded. So now I am not sure if this can even be done without just rewritting one of the programs all together. What would be the easiest route here. Make a gcode parser in labview similar to freddy pingpongs etch-a-sketch vi, have two arduinos one with LIFA and one with GRBL and hook them both to my driver boards and just disable one when the other one is running and vice versa (not the cleanest but probably the simplest codewise). Or can LIFA be converted to C and be flashed to the arduino with GRBL?Gctrl (Processing Sketch.pde) GRBL GUI : https://github.com/damellis/gctrlGRBL (Optimized C) Gcode interpreter : https://github.com/grbl/grblLIFA: I'm sure everyone is familar with this.Thanks a lot in advance for your input.

LabVIEW Interface for Arduino Discussions

Here is a link that has 3 helpful links.

Make sure you click on "show more" just below the short description to expose the 3 links.

If you do a Google search on "Labview GRBL" you will find additional help.

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