Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO]A question of size managenent.

Hi Fred

I recognize your name from your various posts over the years on RCM as a software vendor. You are spot on in your
recognition of the Cad program as Aus Cad is just Bob Cad in different clothes IMO.

Are you saying that I have a setting in Bob Cad that I can set in order to produce "3D arcs (G18-G19) arcs" ? I just do not
recall being able to set such commands in force. Or are you just generalizing, and also saying that "Vector-Cad-Cam-Can ;-)"

What is Vector cad and what does it cost! I would give my right n*t to have a program that is not so fickle as Aus and Bob
Cad. You literally have to kiss it's a**s to get two arcs to merge. You cannot place..... No I will not bother boring you, as I
am sure you or anyone who has used either know full well just how contrary it can act and what it's limitations are.

Thanks for your comments Fred.

Bill D

Fred Smith wrote:

> --- In CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@egroups.com, BillDarby <ddarby@s...> wrote:
> >
> ...........
> > > > 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.
>
> .............
> > 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
>
> Bill - Was this a tool path developed by a CAM system? It sounds
> like a Bobcad surface of revolution or something similar. If you
> generate 3D arcs (G18-G19) It should be possible to reduce the size
> of your program considerable. Vector-Cad-Cam-Can ;-)
>
> Also use of a controller macro or incremental moves with subroutine
> repetitions would allow you to further reduce the size of the code,
> but this technique really reduces your ability to pick up the program
> 6 months from now & remember what you did. Be very free with the
> comments to help remember how to use the program or even the
> technique later on.
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Fred Smith
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