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I have a Zortrax m200 3d printer which you may/ may not be familiar with. It is closed source, and uses its own proprietary software to produce Z-code files which should in principal be almost identical to G-code.

My curiosity has kicked in and I'm wondering whether there is a way to decrypt a Z-code file or convert a g-code file to z-code. How would one go about investigating this?

Here is a z-code file:
[https://drive.google.com/file/d/0ByYqoSxe29qtS05UZlpDclBZNWs/view?usp=sharing][1]

Maarten Bodewes
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    I'm not sure that this is a programming question. I'd guess you would get better answer on a 3D printer related forum or Q/A site. [This one](http://3dprinting.stackexchange.com/) comes to mind, don't know why :P. – Maarten Bodewes Jul 15 '16 at 13:54
  • I'm voting to close this question as off-topic because it's more about 3D printing than programming. – Maarten Bodewes Jul 15 '16 at 13:56
  • This in fact is a coding question. Said files contain the 3d printer's tool path, expressed in coordinates. OP is looking for a transpiler (or a way to write one) from a wide-spread but unfortunately proprietary encryption of this data (zcode) to the commonly used and open source friendly gcode, that is industry standard here. Valid question at the right place. – harmonica141 Feb 24 '21 at 07:36

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Yes, possible to do it. You can find a good tool (with source code) here: https://github.com/bonafid3/zcode2gcode to convert ZCode to GCode.

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