Re: [Emc-developers] very tiny nit in 2.5 docs

2012-02-14 Thread John Thornton
Tom, Thanks for letting me know... it is fixed now. John On 2/13/2012 8:30 PM, Tom Easterday wrote: User Manual V2.5, 2012-02-13 pg 127/186 Q - naive came tolerance should be Q - naive cam tolerance -Tom -- Keep

Re: [Emc-developers] Recording Machine Movements (Spiderdab)

2012-02-14 Thread Spiderdab
Il giorno lun, 13/02/2012 alle 20.23 -0600, Jon Elson ha scritto: Spiderdab wrote: Yes I've tried using G64, but maybe i didn't know how this worked. because i didn't have the expected resulting. Just because you mentioned, is it correct to use such a line at the beginning of the g-code

Re: [Emc-developers] Recording Machine Movements (Spiderdab)

2012-02-14 Thread Michał Geszkiewicz
W dniu 14.02.2012 14:28, Spiderdab pisze: and, I really cannot understand what Q does (naive) and if you have to use Q together with P or without. P value is maximum deviation of path allowed. Q value: let say we have two parallel continous lines. we have Pointa - begin of 1 line, pointb (end

Re: [Emc-developers] Recording Machine Movements (Spiderdab)

2012-02-14 Thread Jon Elson
Spiderdab wrote: It is G64.1 Pxxx. G64 turns on some smoothing, G64.1 turns on more (and I'm vastly oversimplifying it.) Well, maybe they have changed it, but I'm pretty sure I used G64.1 Pxxx, but looking at section 3.1.3 it doesn't say that.

Re: [Emc-developers] Recording Machine Movements (Spiderdab)

2012-02-14 Thread Jon Elson
Michał Geszkiewicz wrote: W dniu 14.02.2012 14:28, Spiderdab pisze: and, I really cannot understand what Q does (naive) and if you have to use Q together with P or without. P value is maximum deviation of path allowed. Q value: let say we have two parallel continous lines. we have

Re: [Emc-developers] Recording Machine Movements (Spiderdab)

2012-02-14 Thread Spiderdab
Il giorno mar, 14/02/2012 alle 12.04 -0600, Jon Elson ha scritto: Michał Geszkiewicz wrote: W dniu 14.02.2012 14:28, Spiderdab pisze: and, I really cannot understand what Q does (naive) and if you have to use Q together with P or without. P value is maximum deviation of path

Re: [Emc-developers] Recording Machine Movements (Spiderdab)

2012-02-14 Thread Spiderdab
Il giorno mar, 14/02/2012 alle 12.02 -0600, Jon Elson ha scritto: Spiderdab wrote: It is G64.1 Pxxx. G64 turns on some smoothing, G64.1 turns on more (and I'm vastly oversimplifying it.) Well, maybe they have changed it, but I'm pretty sure I used G64.1 Pxxx, but looking at

Re: [Emc-developers] Recording Machine Movements (Spiderdab)

2012-02-14 Thread Viesturs Lācis
2012/2/14 Spiderdab 77...@tiscali.it: what if (talking about mm units) i exagerate the P value to..let's say 1000 mm, in a 'spline' made of a thousand of 1mm lines? What the machine is expected to do? It would do the shortest and fastest move from start to finish, taking into account the max

Re: [Emc-developers] Recording Machine Movements (Spiderdab)

2012-02-14 Thread andy pugh
On 14 February 2012 20:17, Viesturs Lācis viesturs.la...@gmail.com wrote: 2012/2/14 Spiderdab 77...@tiscali.it: what if (talking about mm units) i exagerate the P value to..let's say 1000 mm, It would do the shortest and fastest move from start to finish, I am not sure about that, I seem to

Re: [Emc-developers] Recording Machine Movements (Spiderdab)

2012-02-14 Thread Jon Elson
Spiderdab wrote: Thanks for this explaination. in my case i'll have only line-line movements, since the way that i'm recording movements is point-by-point. so i don't have need of Q. speaking for absurd...what if (talking about mm units) i exagerate the P value to..let's say 1000 mm, in a

Re: [Emc-developers] Recording Machine Movements (Spiderdab)

2012-02-14 Thread Jon Elson
Viesturs Lācis wrote: Or even better You could ask Jon to share his test file and see a working implementation of G64 Pxx command. My test file is at http://pico-systems.com/codes/contour.ngc it is 10,000 G1 vectors that do a 2.0 diameter circle at a feedrate of 30 units. You might want to

Re: [Emc-developers] Recording Machine Movements (Spiderdab)

2012-02-14 Thread Jon Elson
andy pugh wrote: I am not sure about that, I seem to recall reading here that it will still touch at least one point of each line segment. Activating the naive cam detector with Qxx (IIUC) will actually remove some line segments, if their deviation from a straight line is less than the