BCNC(1)

✨ bCNC ✨

okay bestie, sit down, hydrate, because we're talking about bCNC — and she's a User Commands manual page, which means she lives in section 1 of the manual, and she's lowkey the main character of your whole CNC setup 💅

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

bCNC [OPTIONS]... [FILENAME]

like, that's the whole vibe. options, then a filename. iconic.

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

GrblHAL (formerly GRBL) CNC command sender, autoleveler, g-code editor, digitizer, CAM and swiss army knife for all your CNC needs. fr fr, she does everything.

An advanced fully featured g-code sender for grblHAL (formerly GRBL). bCNC is a cross platform program (Windows, Linux, Mac) written in python. The sender is robust and fast, able to work nicely with old or slow hardware like Raspberry Pi — and no cap, it was validated by the GRBL maintainer on heavy testing. like, she got vetted. 💖

and now the flags, bestie, because this is where it gets fun 👑

• -b, --baud — set the baud rate, so you and your machine can speak the same language at the same speed 🗣️
• -d — enable developer features (nerd mode: ON)
• -D — disable developer features (nerd mode: OFF)
• -f, --fullscreen — enable fullscreen mode, give her the WHOLE screen, she deserves it
• -g <geometry> — set the default geometry, i.e. tell her exactly how big and where to be
• -h, -?, --help — show a help page, for when you're lost (it happens 🫶)
• -i, --ini <file> — alternative ini file for testing, a lil side quest config
• -l, --list — list all recently opened files, your browsing history but make it useful
• -p, --pendant <port> — open pendant to specified port
• -P — do not start pendant, hard pass
• -r, --recent — load the most recent file opened, the "continue where you left off" slay
• -R <arg> — load the recent file matching the argument, very specific of you, love that
• -s, --serial <port> — open serial port specified
• -S — do not open serial port
• --run — directly run the file once loaded, no chill, just go 🔥

💀 REPORTING BUGS 💀

found a bug? not her fault (jk, maybe it is 😭) — report bugs to <https://github.com/vlachoudis/bCNC/issues>

bestie, be nice in the issue. include details. the maintainers are people too 🎀

okay that's the whole page!! this was bCNC, dated March 2021, and yes the source line at the bottom literally just says bCNC and nothing else, she's that confident 💅 stay caffeinated, keep your baud rate high, and don't forget to actually read the help page. mwah 🫶✨