Re: [Emc-users] Estimated time remaining

2016-10-01 Thread Todd Zuercher
ists.sourceforge.net Sent: Saturday, October 1, 2016 6:27:25 PM Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Estimated time remaining The estimator DOES just use distance & feedrate, not acceleration. This is effective for estimating 2D cuts but junk for 3D carving, which hinges primarily on acceleration. Ther

Re: [Emc-users] Estimated time remaining

2016-10-01 Thread sam sokolik
just use the feed rates X distance to be >> traveled? What if it took that and added to it a factor(derived from the >> machines acceleration rate) X the number of lines in the file. >> >> ----- Original Message - >> From: dan...@austin.rr.com >> To: "E

Re: [Emc-users] Estimated time remaining

2016-10-01 Thread Danny Miller
; From: dan...@austin.rr.com > To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" > Sent: Friday, September 30, 2016 11:30:51 PM > Subject: [Emc-users] Estimated time remaining > > I am doing 3D carving, where the Properties analysis is regrettably useless > for coming up with time

Re: [Emc-users] Estimated time remaining

2016-10-01 Thread Todd Zuercher
acceleration rate) X the number of lines in the file. - Original Message - From: dan...@austin.rr.com To: "Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)" Sent: Friday, September 30, 2016 11:30:51 PM Subject: [Emc-users] Estimated time remaining I am doing 3D carving, where the Properties a

[Emc-users] Estimated time remaining

2016-09-30 Thread dannym
I am doing 3D carving, where the Properties analysis is regrettably useless for coming up with time estimates due to not taking into account the acceleration aspect of trajectory planning. I did install the cycle timer pvcp and it does certainly help. But one thing I noticed- these carvings are