On Jan 26 2014 12:13 PM, Dewey Garrett wrote: >>just to be clearer: I can run the original qpocket with the / lines >>activated and it will not work, the entry point and lead in are >> always >>wrong. I tried with simple square pockets of varying sizes and it >> bugs. >>So, if there is a way to get toolpath compensation working, let me >> know >>but so far it just looks like the generated path is wrong. If someone >>could give an example of use of qpocket.ngc that works with path >>compensation enabled, that will cetainly help me a lot... > > i just installed a recent 2.5.3 precise simulator deb from the > buildbot on a laptop > running xubuntu (quantal): > > > http://buildbot.linuxcnc.org/dists/precise/v2.5_branch-sim/binary-i386/linuxcnc-sim_2.5.3.92.gab7e013_i386.deb > > and ran an the unmodified configs/sim/ngcgui/ngcgui.ini example with > a one inch square > (0,0),(1,0),(1,1),(0,1): > > http://www.panix.com/~dgarrett/stuff/qpocket_setup.png > http://www.panix.com/~dgarrett/stuff/qpocket_run.png > > so it works for me -- we need to know more about your configuration > and the parameters > used for qpocket
looks nice. I tried running it on linuxcnc-2.6.0_rc2 built on a gentoo mchine (without an RTK) and it does not work at all. Unfortunately I will not have time for the next two weeks to look at this... Ngcgui looks interesting though, and I want to play with it... EBo -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ CenturyLink Cloud: The Leader in Enterprise Cloud Services. Learn Why More Businesses Are Choosing CenturyLink Cloud For Critical Workloads, Development Environments & Everything In Between. Get a Quote or Start a Free Trial Today. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=119420431&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
