Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO]A question of size managenent.

Jon Elson wrote:

> BillDarby wrote:
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> > Hi All
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> > 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.

Thanks Jon

The path was a series of ever diminishing "U"s that when viewed from the top end of the Us formed a convex radius on the part. (don't know
if even the Lord himself could understand what I just said) <BG> [each path was inside the preceding U shaped path and at a little higher
Z.]

Bill D

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