Hi Greg, Chances are that dumping the on-board video for a card will change things. I'm running an Intel 'Seattle' 600 MHz P3 with a video card and 384 Mb of memory and getting fine response.
HTH Dave On Jun 8, 2008, at 6:53 PM, Greg Michalski wrote: > 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
