Toolhead controls for extra ABC axis in dashboard about mainsail HOT 6 CLOSED

Well this was something I was working on , thanks you got it working

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thx for your request. i found here also a gif with the implementation in Universal-G-Code-Sender: winder/Universal-G-Code-Sender#1920

do you have any idea, how to visualize these axis in the other control options?

is this also with generic klipper possible? because i only implement generic klipper options right now and dont support klipper forks.

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is this also with generic klipper possible? because i only implement generic klipper options right now and dont support klipper forks.

Generic Klipper does not implement this at all, and given its pace and the experimental stage of multi-axis 3D printing I don't expect it to implement it for the next 5 years at least. FR dismissed!

If it is not too much to ask, I'd like to know how Mainsail would be modified to accomodate this.

The simplest idea I have is to write a new component for the dashboard, with controls for the additional axes. How would you implement it?

I'd be glad to learn a bit of frontend if it can get me going with this idea.

Thanks for the quick response!

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do you have any idea, how to visualize these axis in the other control options?

LinuxCNC states that "The A B C axes refer to rotational coordinates about the X Y Z axes respectively".

I'm not a designer but I imagine that all control options should probably hint at this information.

It is also true that additional axes are often used for purposes other than those 3 rotational axes, and they might be linear too. I wouldn't expect frontends to capture this complexity, so I'd make a naive recommendation to use only the "bars" style controls for the ABC axes.

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Well it was not as terrible as I thought.

On the Klipper side, this small modification to motion_report.py was enough: https://gitlab.com/pipettin-bot/forks/firmware/klipper/-/commit/484037b7684b54b694ca17793a7e65d78f356c1e

On the Mainsail side this worked just fine: https://gitlab.com/pipettin-bot/forks/firmware/mainsail/-/commit/81b4656bdc29b23b54a9c60c469da150d865994c

ChatGPT and a well written source really helped me figure out what copypasta was needed. I'm really happy with this. :)

A note: the control "steps" and feedrate I have hijacked from the Z axis. That's untidy, but this was just to play around and learn a bit.

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Well this was something I was working on , thanks you got it working

@vipulchari cool! Are you also working on a multi-axis Klipper?

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