SPINDLE_WAIT

[phil from seattle]

I am a bit of a FreeCAD newbie but pretty experienced in other CAD and CAM systems.

I see this in the grbl_post.py script:

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      if SPINDLE_WAIT > 0:
        if command in ('M3', 'M03', 'M4', 'M04'):
          out += linenumber() + format_outstring(outstring) + "\n"
          out += linenumber() + format_outstring(['G4', 'P%s' % SPINDLE_WAIT]) + "\n"
          outstring = []

Where do I set SPINDLE_WAIT in FreeCAD? I've looked through Path/* and Edit/Preferences/Path/*

[spanner888]

Where do I set SPINDLE_WAIT in FreeCAD?

Looks like this is set when creating or editing the Job, in the Output Tab, Arguments field. Hover to get help text, or since you are already looking in grbl_post.py then see around line 100:

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parser.add_argument('--wait-for-spindle',   type=int, default=0, help='Wait for spindle to reach desired speed after M3 / M4, default=0')

[Kunda1]

@spanner888, offtopic github tip (should also work for gitlab).

• in a webbrowser go to https://github.com/FreeCAD/FreeCAD
• Press the letter 't'
• Type grbl_post.py in the fuzzy search and click the link
• Press ctrl+f and type 100 (or just scroll down to line 100)
• Once at line 100, click the '100'
• copy the URL in to your buffer (should be: https://github.com/FreeCAD/FreeCAD/blob ... st.py#L100 )
• paste it to threads like this one

[phil from seattle]

Ah! thank you. I guess I am just too impatient - hover delay seems pretty long.

[spanner888]

@spanner888, offtopic github tip (should also work for gitlab).

Nice tip thanks.