Supported controllers

Different controllers and their versions are supported differently in UGS. We strive to make the user experience similar for different hardware. This is a list of some of the basic features and how they are supported.

Controller	File	G-states	Mco	Wco	Jog	Home	Settings	Overrides
GRBL 1.1+	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️
GRBL 0.9	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️
GRBL 0.8	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️
TinyG	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️
g2core 101.03+	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️		✔️
Smoothieware

• Controller - the controller firmware and its version number
• File - if streaming a file, pausing and stopping is supported
• G-states - the controller is a big state machine storing a bunch of parameters such as current units (mm/inch), work offsets, coordinate system. To visualise these properly in UGS we need to store the same states. This tells if we support storing the Gcode state for the controller.
• Mco - Machine coordinate system is coordinates the absolute coordinates of the machine.
• Wco - Work coordinate system or offset can be configured by the user to have a relative coordinate space to work in. These are needed for positioning the tools around the material.
• Jog - If manually moving the machine by stepping/jogging is supported.
• Home - Homing will determine the absolute zero for the machine position
• Settings - If firmware settings can be altered through the machine
• Overrides - If runtime overrides are supported for feed and spindle speeds.