Post up them handmade G-codes

[Aiph5u (Aiph5u (not affiliated with Onefinity))]

Hey Gabe,

the buildbotics-derived Onefinity controller is not based on LinuxCNC. It’s just that its g-code is patterned after the LinuxCNC g-code dialect, so it supports a subset of LinuxCNC G-code.

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Buildbotics is not based on LinuxCNC, as Buildbotics is the own work of its creator, but its g-code syntax is patterned after the LinuxCNC g-code syntax

Tomatoe/tomato. The distinction might be pedantically pure, but it doesn’t do much to add to the conversation.

I don’t think you can say Buildbotics “is based on” LinuxCNC. You can say the Onefinity Controller is based on the Buildbotics Controller, because the Onefinity Controller is a software and a hardware fork of the Buildbotics Controller (bbctrl-firmware, bbctrl-pcb → onefinity-firmware, onefinity-pcb).

But the Buildbotics Controller is a new CNC Controller written from scratch and not based on LinuxCNC. It would be rather correct to say, the Buildbotics Controller is based on the knowledge that its author → acquired when he was writing the Camotics 3D Simulation Software (Ref.: History of the Buildbotics Controller).

In software, usually if you say “based on”, you mean that you somehow took the software and recycle some of the code. But the softwares mentioned here are not based on the other, the developers just tried to pattern their g-code dialect after the other.

Further information

See here for the g-code commands supported by the buildbotics-derived Onefinity Controller.