> On Jun 8, 2008, at 6:53 PM, Greg Michalski wrote: > > >>Just thought I'd share my benchtop mill powered by EMC. >>A question though - when I have the file loaded and touch off to the >>workpiece - it takes FOREVER to get back to ready to let me touch >>off the >>next axis. What is this the result of? The .ngc file is >>www.distinctperspectives.com/X3/LimitBases.ngc I know it is a lot >>of milling >>(it took a while to run) but it took longer to update after >>touching off >>than it did to parse the file at loadup. I know I'm not running a >>top end >>system (it's a P3 650MHz w/384mb memory and onboard video that I >>picked off >>the curb one winter afternoon) I wonder if just backing off on the BASE_PERIOD setting would help. The real time section with software step generation may be taking a little too much CPU time.
One other thing, do you have it on a network? Something I've noticed on one system where I share the network jack is that any user interface stuff will run insanely slow for 10-15 minutes after you boot. I forget which network process is burning all the CPU time trying to establish some connection. Jon ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
