Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO]A question of size managenent.

BillDarby wrote:

> Hi All
>
> I recently ran a tool path with 36,000 lines of code. (no big deal in the real world) Now my question is this: This
> path was really only 200 sets of (a line an arc and a second line) or [line, arc, line, 200 times]. "If" I could have entered the
> summation of the 160 lines of code representing each arc into one common "arc command" I would have had a total of just 600 lines
> of code.
>
> As it was, there was not enough memory to edit on the CNC.

Well, now here's one for the EMC vs. DOS whatever wars! This wouldn't be any
problem on EMC, as the user mode Linux environment is running on a virtual
memory machine.

Actually, if these line-arc-line patterns were repeated in a regular fashion, this
could be reduced to about 50 lines in EMC, by using relative coordinates to
set over so far between inerations.

Jon