Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] preferred version of EMC

r_fl_z@... wrote:

> What is the preferred version of EMC for kernel 2.0.36 ?

Many people are not going to like this, but I am still using the
20-DEC-1999 version. I have tried a number of early 2000
versions (Mar and JUN, I think) and found serious problems with
them. Unintended motions, jerks, crashes of the Xwindows
environment or killing the interrupt system (keyboard and mouse
go dead). I wanted to get the backlash compensation stuff
in there, but the one (June?) that had that fixed would hang up
the system VERY often.

20-DEC-1999 has a slight problem when switching back and forth
between manual and MDI, that it will sometimes try to 'complete'
a move that was aborted in MDI when you make a new MDI
(or manual) move.

IE., you do an X2.5, but abort it, then go to manual and do a
jog, then go to MDI and enter a Y1.0 and find the machine is
moving to X2.5 Y1.0 - you have to watch out for this one, but
it usually happens at low speed while setting up the offsets to
the part. Otherwise, it is totally stable, and has no other
true 'bugs'. There may be some small deficiencies in the GUI, but
it is much more important to me that it be solidly reliable!

Jon