On Monday, May 16, 2011 11:44:27 AM Tom Easterday did opine: > I am running a job for a friend and I have a bunch of circular toolpaths > which spiral down to form a cone. One row of these holes is about > 27,000 line of gcode.
Yikes! I am far from a gcode expert, but that fairly screams for a subroutine that could probably reduce the LOC by 95% or more. > I am noticing that as it runs it seems to have > reached the maximum number of paths it can color (or something like > that), as it is turning paths back to white behind it as it continues > forward. > > Is this a "feature"? I don't know about feature, but I've seen it. I think (to me at least) its not that much of a problem since its only back plot related. > -Tom > > ps: running 2.4.6 As am I. My fuss about 2.4.6 is that since I am using (MSG,) and M pauses in my current setup while carving mortise and tenons joints, is that the MSG printouts SHOULD be restricted in space to only cover the listing window. As is, by the end of a run, they are covering the majority of the back-plot window area too so I cannot glance at it to see where I am in this repeat run. So that's fuss #1 Not only that, some are not erasable/deletable as the cli message says they are not found in the list. Fuss #2 The only way to get rid of them is to exit & restart emc, which in turn causes me to have to eventually measure and reset my home positions. IMO, saving the current machine positions with that optional line in the .INI file, should also save the HOMED status. That would then lead to a small loss (max= 1/2 microstep count) per restart that for carving wood, should not be a part wrecker error. Fuss #3 I guess that is probably 3 different fixit requests. 2.4.7 material maybe? -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) <http://tinyurl.com/ddg5bz> <http://www.cantrip.org/gatto.html> I'm having a tax-deductible experience! I need an energy crunch!! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Achieve unprecedented app performance and reliability What every C/C++ and Fortran developer should know. Learn how Intel has extended the reach of its next-generation tools to help boost performance applications - inlcuding clusters. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devmay _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
