Just thought I'd share my benchtop mill powered by EMC. http://distinctperspectives.com/coppermine/
It's a work in progress but I've got 3 axes operational - still some electronics to work on and a few goodies to machine for the mill and then it'll be 100%. A question though - when I have the file loaded and touch off to the workpiece - it takes FOREVER to get back to ready to let me touch off the next axis. What is this the result of? The .ngc file is www.distinctperspectives.com/X3/LimitBases.ngc I know it is a lot of milling (it took a while to run) but it took longer to update after touching off than it did to parse the file at loadup. I know I'm not running a top end system (it's a P3 650MHz w/384mb memory and onboard video that I picked off the curb one winter afternoon) but it had better latency test results (18000) than the newer MSI mobo with a Celeron and a gig and an ATI video card (I know the Celeron isn't the best for this kind of application but it's what I had to toss into the board which I got for a whopping $5 at a Hamfest because it had 2 bent pins on the BGA socket). Anything I'm doing wrong or is it just the limitations of the memory and processor speed? Thanks. Greg Michalski ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
