John, Ben, thanks for the explanations. Meanwhile I fiddled around a bit more with my system and spent quite some time "air milling" and after playing around with different settings I discovered that , as John suggested, higher accelaration gets faster results. I now got the acceleration up to 500 mm/s and now it only takes half the time to mill one part of the mold.
For each little piece of line that DeskProto creates, EMC goes from a full stop via ramp-up to max. speed and a ramp-down to full stop again and since the model is being traced using a 0.2 mm step, it never reaches any speed ... That having said: I just played around with the G64 P... command and now it reaches max. speed during milling. This makes milling in foam 3 times faster and knowing that previous runs took 17 hours to complete that's defenitely worth something :) I used P0.1, close enough since the model will be spray painted with a primer and a high gloss paint afterwards. It will definitely be worthwhile to read up on G-coding, optimizing and setting proper parameter values makes the difference Cheers, Rob ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
