RE: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] re:Re: Indexer-G-Code Update

Doug -

I've been asking him about this too. This is what he says about
it on his website (I hope it's OK to cut/paste this):
"Look-ahead technology allows you to automatically arrange for all
calculation dwell to occur at the times that the tool is not in
contact with the work. You can even change feed rates and execute
M commands after initial tool entry into the work and NOT HAVE
calculation dwell at the point after the initial entry and before
the complex contour. This is useful in milling machines and
routers, but especially important for laser and plasma cutting
machines where post-entry dwell must be precisely controlled."
It's kind of cryptic. I don't think he can do true on-the-fly
feedrate override, but it seems he has some strategy of
eliminating negative effects of calculation dwells after the
feedrate is changed.

Carlos Guillermo
VERVE Engineering & Design

-----Original Message-----
From: doug98105 [mailto:dougrasmussen@...]
Sent: Friday, December 28, 2001 1:41 PM
To: CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] re:Re: Indexer-G-Code Update

Carlos,

Do you know if he provides any method of feedrate override? In my
converstaions with Art over the last few years that's something he
intended to have, but never seemed to get around to. IMO, without
that capability he doesn't have much of a controller <snip>