> No, I was actually working with an OEM who sold a sign software package > that generated Gcode (very expensive). The problem was that their > software generated way too many short segments for no good reason which > caused problems on the machine controls (it wasn't LinuxCNC or Mach3). They > simply > refused to alter their code saying that the machine control "should" be > able to handle as many short segments as they want to throw at it and > still run at high speeds.
If this is OEM stuff with reasonable quantities involved, the software supplier was being very short sighted by refusing to change. Arc matching and other optimizations are not that difficult. > The machine control choked badly (no surprise) and was running 10 or 15% > of the desired speed. > > In the end, I don't think that anything was ever fixed. And the > machines still run slowly. Perhaps I should show them SheetCam ;-) > Artists and some of the people associated with artists tend to live in > different realm, reality, or dimension. ;-) > Logic is oftentimes discarded! > Some artistic work can be really nasty. I spent quite a lot of time on SheetCam's optimization to try to handle some of the really messy decorative work that was being fed into it. The absolute worst is stuff that has been through raster->vector conversion. Some of that is just ridiculous. Les ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ For Developers, A Lot Can Happen In A Second. Boundary is the first to Know...and Tell You. Monitor Your Applications in Ultra-Fine Resolution. Try it FREE! http://p.sf.net/sfu/Boundary-d2dvs2 _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
