#*************************************************************************** #* (c) Yorik van Havre (yorik@uncreated.net) 2014 * #* * #* This file is part of the FreeCAD CAx development system. * #* * #* This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify * #* it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) * #* as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of * #* the License, or (at your option) any later version. * #* for detail see the LICENCE text file. * #* * #* FreeCAD is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, * #* but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of * #* MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the * #* GNU Lesser General Public License for more details. * #* * #* You should have received a copy of the GNU Library General Public * #* License along with FreeCAD; if not, write to the Free Software * #* Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 * #* USA * #* * #***************************************************************************/ ''' This is an example preprocessor file for the Path workbench. Its aim is to open a gcode file, parse its contents, and create the appropriate objects in FreeCAD. Read the Path Workbench documentation to know how to create Path objects from GCode. ''' import os, Path import FreeCAD # to distinguish python built-in open function from the one declared below if open.__module__ == '__builtin__': pythonopen = open def open(filename): "called when freecad opens a file." docname = os.path.splitext(os.path.basename(filename))[0] doc = FreeCAD.newDocument(docname) insert(filename,doc.Name) def insert(filename,docname): "called when freecad imports a file" gfile = pythonopen(filename) gcode = gfile.read() gfile.close() gcode = parse(gcode) doc = FreeCAD.getDocument(docname) obj = doc.addObject("Path::Feature","Path") path = Path.Path(gcode) obj.Path = path def parse(inputstring): "parse(inputstring): returns a parsed output string" print "preprocessing..." # split the input by line lines = inputstring.split("\n") output = "" lastcommand = None for l in lines: # remove any leftover trailing and preceding spaces l = l.strip() if not l: # discard empty lines continue if l[0].upper() in ["N"]: # remove line numbers l = l.split(" ",1)[1] if l[0] in ["(","%","#"]: # discard comment and other non strictly gcode lines continue if l[0].upper() in ["G","M"]: # found a G or M command: we store it output += l + "\n" last = l[0].upper() for c in l[1:]: if not c.isdigit(): break else: last += c lastcommand = last elif lastcommand: # no G or M command: we repeat the last one output += lastcommand + " " + l + "\n" print "done preprocessing." return output print __name__ + " gcode preprocessor loaded."