What is BCNC (BCNC)?

What is BCNC (BCNC)?

An advanced fully featured g-code sender for grblHAL (formerly GRBL). bCNC is a cross platform program (Windows, Linux, Mac) written in python. The sender is robust and fast able to work nicely with old or slow hardware like Raspberry Pi (As it was validated by the GRBL maintainer on heavy testing).

How to compile BCNC to exe file?

This is basic example of how to compile bCNC to .exe file. (given that you have working bCNC in the first place, eg. using pip install bCNC ). Go to the directory where is your bCNC installed and do the following: This will take a minute or two. But in the end it should create bCNC.exe .

How do I install (or upgrade) BCNC?

This is how you install (or upgrade) bCNC along with all required packages. You can use any of these commands (you need only one): pip2 install –upgrade bCNC pip2 install –upgrade git+https://github.com/vlachoudis/bCNC pip2 install .

How do I change the default configuration for BCNC?

You can modify most of the parameters from the “CAM -> Config/Controller” page. You can also enable (up to) 6-axis mode in Config section, but bCNC restart is required for changes to take place. Only the changes/differences from the default configuration file will be saved in your home directory $ {HOME}/.bCNC or ~/.bCNC