G-Code Editor Professional app for iPhone and iPad


4.4 ( 5664 ratings )
Utilities Productivity
Developer: Afanche Technologies, Inc.
9.99 USD
Current version: V2.9, last update: 7 years ago
First release : 19 Sep 2013
App size: 10.53 Mb

This is professional version CNC G-Code editor and 3D viewer for iPad. With its help, you can view or edit your CNC G-Code files on your mobile device no matter where you are, at home or workshop. It is an ideal tool to create small new cnc file, or do simple modifications for existed g-code files, for instance, changing machining parameters, correcting small errors, etc.

The app provides many text editing features similar to desktop text editors, including row modification, row insertion, deleting a row, appending a row, searching, row duplication, etc. You can also use the app to change the display page of the G code file (page up, page down), or go to a particular line by telling it the line number. It supports huge NC g-code file as big as 100,000 lines.

The app also provides G-Codes, M-Codes list for your reference. This could be very handy in case you need to know what G67 or G80 means.

The app supports 3D viewing feature for G-Code and CAD data in STL format. You can use it to view tool path in 3D. You can load CNC tool path and 3D STL file and view them together. This is very helpful to compare tool path against CAD model to see if anything is wrong. The app provides many 3D features including rotating model with finger movement, zooming in/out, panning, changing color, etc. If you want to view CAD data in other format, for instance, dxf, iges, step, x_t(x_b), etc., please download another app called G-Code Editor Super.

The app provides native support for you to view documents in many different formats, including Microsoft Words (.doc, .docx), Excel (.xls, .xlsx), PowerPoint(.ppt, .pptx), Apple Numbers (.numbers), Pages(.pages), Keynote(.key), Adobe PDF (.pdf) and multimedia files including image (.png and .jpg) and video (.mov,.mp4,.3gp). This way, you can manage and view not only 3D files, but also other files of your project.

You can add files to the apps document folder through iTunes and use the file open button of the app to load them. You can also use the app to open files you received as your email attachment. Just tap on the attachment in you email app, the app would be launched automatically. Or you can use it to open files from third party file management app, like DropBox, etc.

The app is also a file organizer. It provides many file management features for you to manage your files easily, including file sorting, file deletion, creating folders, deleting folders, sending file out as email attachment, etc. The app provides zip and unzip function. You can use it to zip / unzip compressed files in .zip format.

The app provides unique in-app reviewing feature. You can easily take screen-shot of your file (3D or regular document), draw comment on the screen-shot and email it to your friends. The app supports many drawing elements, including free form, line, text, rectangle, circle, ellipse, etc. It supports undo/redo.

Afanche is a company specialized in 3D technologies. For more info, please visit our website http://www.afanche.com.