Stuart Stevenson wrote: > > It seemed to have skipped the G2/G3 and moved in a straight line from the > start point of the radius to the end point of the radius > Hmmm, well, as far as I know, I have never seen EMC do that. If you are running a "stable release" of EMC there, then I might run a memtst86 for an hour on the computer first. If this uses any radius compensation, check the tool table for any strange entries.
Has it continued to run good parts after this incident (or have you run some air cuts)? >> Are the following error limits tight on that machine? Is it possible a >> chip jammed the machine >> and no following error was caused, so it just completed the program as >> best it could, and >> the chip then fell out when the axis reversed? >> > > I do not believe this is possible on this machine > That would only be a scenario if it left a straight chord on the circle, but skipping the whole circle seems to be an entirely different problem. Is this arc move a 360 degree turn? I have always been in the habit of NOT programming those, mostly because it was verboten on older controls. Jon ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Nokia and AT&T present the 2010 Calling All Innovators-North America contest Create new apps & games for the Nokia N8 for consumers in U.S. and Canada $10 million total in prizes - $4M cash, 500 devices, nearly $6M in marketing Develop with Nokia Qt SDK, Web Runtime, or Java and Publish to Ovi Store http://p.sf.net/sfu/nokia-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
