Re: A question of size managenent.

Jon, list,

(snips, inserts below)

> 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.

Not a problem for a well written DOS program either! Written in
BASIC, even! PowerBasic allows me to dynamically allocate an array up
to the size of ALL available memory!

And other DOS programs can drip-feed a large program line by line.

>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

This is a function of the interpreter, and most CNC controllers, DOS
and otherwise, support G91 (incremental, or relative coords)!

The original question here was: Is there a software pkg which will
allow "segmented arcs" to be "returned into" arc commands for the cnc?

I am away from my "regular" computer, so I can't provide the links,
but the short answer is YES. However, the longer answer is usually
these are higher-end programs with a substantial cost. There ARE
some "shareware utilities" and "crippled" demo versions out there.

Anyone else have the links?

Hope this helps.

Ballendo