Solidworks CAM Marlin Post Processor

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I worked on this post processor for Solidworks for the people who have a MPCNC, or any other 3d printed CNC machine, and wish to use Marlin. Best feature of this is that you didn't have to find your drug dealing VAR and become their junky.. Canned Cycles this unravels is G73 (High Speed Pecking), G81 (Drilling), G83 (Pecking), and G83 (Variable Pecking) with G98/G99. That Variable Pecking is just an alias back to normal pecking since only the HAAS does it and I found nothing in Solidworks that allowed me to input the I,J,K values (even for HAAS Post Processors). Now this is a work in progress and I need operators to work with it and tell me what is flaky or some other oddities. You will need a Marlin based CNC controller as well as Solidworks 2018 or higher (when they brought in Camworks and the CAM section became available for free) OR Camworks I believe. This has the feature that you need to setup your safe space for your router to sit for tool changes as the gcode produced will move the router there and wait for you to change the tool out then you press the continue menu option. You also need to tell Marlin your max settings and it will start the gcode file with those values. The above is set via the Machine->Posting tab as shown in the picture. **1/13/2020 - New version is up. 1/13/2020 - Removed Tool Ending Position as I am tired of fighting Solidworks over it. 1/13/2020 - Fixed the Safe Space for the tool input and removed a line of debug code I was generating.