GCheck Plug-in

The GCheck Plug-in colorizes the program making it easier to find different NC commands.

Before Check:

After Check:

The colors can be set from the options dialog, so you can set any color scheme. You also specify which characters are used for comments, so this tool can work with many different machines.

Then when your scheme is set, you can turn off the options dialog, so it won't bother asking you again. Your settings are saved and restored automatically each time you run MDXEdit.

While it makes NC Code easier to read, it also checks for problems in the file. It checks to ensure cutter compensation match each Left/Right with a Cancel. It also checks feed-rates are not zero. Lines with errors are high-lighted by changing them to the error color. You can check the entire file, or just the selected lines.

You may save the color formatting information if you choose to save the file as Rich Text. MDXEdit supports both plain and rich text files, and allows you to easily convert between the two.

GCompact Plug-in

The GCompact Plug-in compresses NC Code to take up less space on the machine. You can optionally remove comments, spaces, or sequence numbers.

GDownload Plug-in

The GDownload Plug-in sends the program to the machine using the serial port. It offers standard serial communication settings to make it compatible with any machines serial settings.

As with any plug-in, it remembers all your settings and you can turn off the dialog which asks for them if you don't need to change them each time.

GUpload Plug-in

The GUpload Plug-in receives programs from a machine via serial connection, allowing you to save the program to a file on your computer.

GFeedrate Speeds Plug-in

The GFeedrate and speeds plug-in lets you modify the feed rates or spindle speeds in a program. There are three types of changes you can specify. The first is Constant, which allows you to change all the feed rates in the program to a new value. The second change is by scale factor, which allows you to increase or decrease the feed rates of the entire program by a percentage. The third type of change lets you target all the feed rates that have a specific value (e.g. 20.0) and change them to the new value.  Other rates are left unchanged. The same choices can be applied independently to spindle speeds.

GPlot Plug-in

The GPlot Plug-in back-plots the tool path. The options allow you to specify the colors to display different elements in the path. Plot the entire file, or just the selected lines.

You can also specify the rapid move type for the machine, so rapid moves appear correctly and how your machine represents arc motion.

The generic back-plot supports milling 2.5D tool paths. It supports display of Nurbs curves and P-Style sub-program calls. There is also now available separately, another plug-in for plotting FADAL L-Style sub-programs.

The toolbar lets you select standard views, fit to the window, copy the image to the clipboard, and rotate, window zoom, and pan using the mouse.

GSequence Plug-in

The GSequence plug-in allows you to automatically re-sequence a program. You may specify the starting number and the sequence increment. If lines are missing sequence numbers, they are optionally added automatically. You may also choose to restart the sequence for each program in the file. You may also choose to re-sequence the entire file, or just the selected lines -most useful for changing just one sub-program in a file.

GSplit Plug-in

The GSplit plug-in is for splitting large surface files into smaller programs for download to a machine.
Options allow for specifying the desired file size, adding retracts, start of program lines, end of program lines, and number of overlapped lines for a cleaner finished cut.