Re: [Emc-users] Backplot window limit on number of toolpaths colored

2011-05-17 Thread gene heskett
On Tuesday, May 17, 2011 04:39:26 AM Chris Radek did opine: On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 12:06:06PM -0400, gene heskett wrote: 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

Re: [Emc-users] Backplot window limit on number of toolpaths colored

2011-05-17 Thread Sebastian Kuzminsky
On 05/17/2011 02:45 AM, gene heskett wrote: On Tuesday, May 17, 2011 04:39:26 AM Chris Radek did opine: There is a possible fix for this in the 2.4 branch (after v2.4.6): 73eb96150e It would be great if you'd let us know if it fixes the problem for you. That would be an svn pull rebuild?

[Emc-users] Backplot window limit on number of toolpaths colored

2011-05-16 Thread Tom Easterday
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. 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

Re: [Emc-users] Backplot window limit on number of toolpaths colored

2011-05-16 Thread Viesturs Lācis
2011/5/16 Tom Easterday tom-...@bgp.nu: 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.  I am noticing that as it runs it seems to have reached the maximum number of paths it

Re: [Emc-users] Backplot window limit on number of toolpaths colored

2011-05-16 Thread gene heskett
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

Re: [Emc-users] Backplot window limit on number of toolpaths colored

2011-05-16 Thread Chris Radek
On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 06:43:47PM +0300, Viesturs L??cis wrote: AFAIK that is the feature, which helps preventing overload of CPU and thus affecting realtime performance. I think it is better to have some lines not painted as You want rather than get ruined part. This is close to the right

Re: [Emc-users] Backplot window limit on number of toolpaths colored

2011-05-16 Thread Tom Easterday
Thanks for all the info. It isn't a problem at all, I was just curious if it was a bug or not. Yes, the gcode could be optimized, but it is a one-off with the gcode is coming out of a cam program so that isn't in the $0 budget :-) -Tom On May 16, 2011, at 12:44 PM, Chris Radek wrote: On

Re: [Emc-users] Backplot window limit on number of toolpaths colored

2011-05-16 Thread Chris Radek
On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 12:06:06PM -0400, gene heskett wrote: 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