RE: Skipping steps, avoiding resonance

At 12:06 AM 12/2/02 -0700, Tim Goldstein wrote:

>Just to eliminate the software try it on something like TurboCNC. You
>can get a full featured, unregistered copy at www.DakEng.com and it will
>run from a DOS boot disk.

Thanks for the suggestion, Tim. I will give it a try. I have briefly
played with it in the past. It gives its own new variables to work out--it
deals with "starting speed" as well as max speed and acceleration (reminds
me of using Indexer LPT).

By the way, "DOS boot disk" is the hard drive on my garage PC...proudly
running DR-DOS. Multitasking doesn't work while running CNC, but I could
pause CNCPro during a cut, task switch to a new command line, do stuff like
editing etc. and then task switch back to CNC Pro and resume where I left
off. I don't do that in practice, but was playing around after I installed
DR-DOS and found it was possible. Great DOS! :-)

Best regards,

Randy

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