Welp, I just found 2 quirks with Pathpilot, that I don't like.

[RussMachine]

I was doing some Engraving today, and I discovered two quirks in Pathpilot that I don't like.
#1 = Pathpilot does not recognize G51 Scaling. BOOOOO!!! I have a program written to mill a 1/2" Logo. I wanted it a little bigger, so I added G51 X1.5 Y1.5 (scale to 1-1/2 times).
WRONG!! Alarm!! Pathpilot does not recognize G51. Well, that sucks.
#2 = When cutting and pasting parts of programs in the on-screen FILE Editor, (In this case 2 programs to make one long one), Pathpilot throws up some quirky symbols throughout the program ( % and # ) ?
Also it pastes stuff where I didn't want it. YIKES!!! This is the second time I've come across this. When I ran that Aluminum Skull project a month ago, the editing threw up some weird symbols and quirks then too.
Strange.
I hope they make an update for the G51 command. It comes in real handy for Logos and engraving.
And maybe they'll look into the editing gremlins.

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[old-cnc-geek]

What version of PathPilot?

Please expand on how you are "editing in the on-screen FILE editor"? Are you clicking the "Edit G-Code" button which brings up the file in gedit, selecting some text, and then using the clipboard functionality to copy/paste from one file into another?
Or are you using the conversational editing features of PathPilot?

Can you supply a snippet of the gcode file showing an example of the "quirky symbols"?

[RussMachine]

I upgraded to PathPilot from Mach3 back in February, so I think it's the latest-greatest version.
Yes, I am using the Edit G-Code button that brings up the file to edit. Not conversational.
Just copying and pasting G-code.
Lets say I right click and highlight a bunch of lines, then COPY them.
When I paste those lines into another program, some weird symbols popped up about every 30 lines in my now 'merged' program. First it was the # symbol.
So I had to Search thru the program and delete all the # symbols, because that symbol cannot be read.
A second time around, a few weeks later, and with different programs, it did it again.
But this time it was with a % symbol randomly in the program.
Also, the text I had copied and pasted, was now pasted in TWO different locations in the 'merged' program. Once in the correct spot where I had pasted it, and it appeared again at the very beginning of the program.
Very very Strange.
Gremlins?

[rodw]

I'd say your spurious characters are from copying text written on Windows into a Linux program. Different line endings are used. Use notepad++ on Windows and either gedit or geany (which I much prefer) on Linux.

LinuxCNC which PathPilot is based on uses the RS274NGC standard which is different to Mach so some commands do not exist. See : http://ws680.nist.gov/publication/ge...?pub_id=823374 or the LinuxCNC web site