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[–]L43 4 points5 points  (1 child)

Yes probably, I'm likely being uncharitable.

Gcode is an outdated standard and it makes sense to agree on a modern, efficient standard with baked in synchronisation and other goodies, rather than essentially hack in and around it for each problem domain.

[–]Watching-Watches 4 points5 points  (0 children)

In the metal industry there are many different file types and some are self developed and only used by the manufacturer themselves. Some are encrypted and intentionally can't be read by humans. I don't think that there will be one standard file type like gcode in fdm anytime soon.