An interactive G-code editing GUI.

Installation

• First install https://github.com/QGCoder/libqgcodeeditor, a Qt5 / Qt6 designer widget plugin for editing G-code.

• Next: clone, build and run qgcoder as follows:

gh repo clone QGCoder/qgcoder && cd qgcoder
qmake && make -j$(nproc)
./qgcoder

or build and install a Ubuntu / Debian package as follows:

gh repo clone QGCoder/qgcoder && cd qgcoder
mk-build-deps -i -s sudo -t "apt --yes --no-install-recommends"
dpkg-buildpackage -b -rfakeroot -us -uc
sudo dpkg -i ../qgcoder*.deb
sudo apt -f install

– Tested with Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and Ubuntu 26.04 LTS -

Overview

When started first, you have to provide qgcoder three filenames, as seen in the following screenshot:

A short YouTube video shows, how you can interact inside qgcoder.

Author

• Jakob Flierl - koppi - main application (main.cpp, mainwin.*, settings_dlg.*, view.*, packaging) - GPL-2.0

Contributors

• ArcEye (Mick) - ArcEye - large file handling, settings dialog and menu wiring in mainwin.* / settings_dlg.* (2016) - GPL-2.0
• Mark Pictor - g2m G-code-to-mesh interpreter core (canonLine, canonMotion, canonMotionless, helicalMotion, linearMotion, machineStatus, nanotimer, lex_analyzer, 2010) - GPL-2.0-or-later
• Anders Wallin - aewallin - modifications to g2m/g2m.hpp / g2m/g2m.cpp (2011) - GPL-2.0-or-later
• Kazuyasu Hamada - modifications to g2m/g2m.hpp and the g2m/gplayer.* G-code player (2015) - GPL-2.0-or-later