Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: mach2 and linux

turbulatordude wrote:

>I would think that if the effort was put into a good interface for
>EMC it would be faster to completion than to try to port Mach2 over
>to Linux.
>
>On my wish list is a read-ahead feature so the control does not stop
>at each line where a slight change of direction is encountered.
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>

Umm, I certainly don't have this problem on EMC. If I NEED square
corners, I do
a G61. A G64 gets you back to smoothed trajectory. There's a G61.1 that
does stop between each move. I've never used this, but have used the G61 to
prevent drill breakage when drilling many holes. I don't want the XY
axes moving
until the drill is safely out of the hole.

What version of EMC are you using, and on what kind of hardware? I do
LOTS of
stuff with arcs and essentially spirals where it is milling a continuous
curve made
up of expanding arc quadrants to bore out a pocket. It does the whole
thing in
one smooth, continuous path with no stops.

Jon