Oops, what about those long N numbers? The manual http://www.linuxcnc.org/docview/html//gcode_overview.html#r1_2 says that N numbers only up to 5 digits are OK. Has this changed, or will trouble occur at N100000 ? What kind of trouble?
Also this might be a good time for me to mention that Dynapath controls only allow up to N9999, but they allow three decimals, so N9999.999 is their highest value. (At least it was, I haven't seen their latest models) Just an interesting idea about what is (or should be) tolerable, since some people use EMC2/Axis to preview code for other systems. EMC2 doesn't really use the line numbers anyway, so it might be helpful to make EMC2 as accepting of a wide variety of N numbering schemes as possible. And here's something that needs to be fixed in that same manual line: "Line numbers may be repeated or used out of order...", vs. this: "A line number... must be in the proper place if used." Does the second quote mean 'at the beginning of the line'? If so, OK, but still could be clearer. Thanks, Kim Jeff Epler wrote: > There is no strict limit on program length. > > However, in practice you might find that the AXIS preview is intolerably > slow or takes too long to load. In that case, just insert a line that > reads exactly > (AXIS,stop) > somewhere in the gcode; the preview will end at that point. > > Jeff > a...@conceptmachinery.com wrote: > Hello > I just finish posting my program where I have Rough and Finish cut. > Totally I have > N134888 X5.92167 Y37.62106 Z-0.1605 > N134889 G0 Z0.25001 > N134890 M30 > % > > it is a lot. > Can EMC2 hold such amount of lines of code? > I think I need manually break G code line with M0; Z 3.0, M0 and make > 10-20 smaller programs. > How big program can be per each part? > > Thanks > Aram > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensing option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
