re:Re: suggested improvement for EMC

Jon,

I know that theoretically lookahead (which is recursive) could be infinite. I thought EMC limited it to around 150 blocks?

10-15 seconds is a small time price to pay for the ability to "back up" in the program? (by running forward)

Ballendo

>>This was really what I had in mind when I said that perhaps the >>machine could back up a bit and 'take a run at the work' after a >>pause. I hadn't really appreciated the extent of the look-ahead but, >>now looking back over earlier posts it seems it can be quite a way >>so perhaps the idea isn't feasible. Is the look-ahead a defined >>quantity like so many lines

>No, the lookahead is infinite, and can extend to the end of the >program, if necessary. In some complex surface contour work, it can >actually extend over thousands or even tens of thousands of blocks of >code.

>It can take 10 - 15 seconds for a 100 MHz Pentium to run through all >the moves in some of my engraving programs, which are the biggest >I've run so far.
> Jon