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Decoder and tooling for the RDWorks .rd file format

About

Thunderlaser laser cutter need a proprietary Windows software (RDWorks) to operate.

RDWorks generates .rd files to communicate with the laser cutter.

.rd files are (trivially) scrambled with strange encodings for integer and floating point values.

This project provides tooling to display and decode this file format.

License

Ruby

Commands

dump

Provides de-scrambled hexdump of an .rd file.

decode

Provides a full decode of an .rd file, with commands and values output in 'human-readable' form.

lookuptable

Generates a lookup table (either in --ruby or in --markdown format) the scrambled values.

document

Generates a github flavored markdown table, listing all commands known to decode

Other references

meerk40t has even more commands implemented.