On Thursday 18 July 2013 10:44:58 Michael Haberler did opine: > I'd be interested in what was your biggest-sized G-code program ever > > good enough: file size, number of lines - just a rough indication is > fine > > --- > > background: I am considering alternative internal representations of > G-code and want to get a handle on the problem size > > thanks! > > - Michael
The answer to that is likely highly dependent on whether it was hand carved code, or generated by some of our less intelligent code generators. I have seen code that I could write in nested loops in 150 LOC maximum, occupy 10,000+ LOC when generated by a poor generator. IMO when one does not have a tool changer, which I don't on either machine, functions that require their own tool should be broken out into a function file per tool. This is of course not a working proposition for a production line machine with a multiple tool auto changing rack. There, 1,000k+ LOC might not be out of reach. I believe the practical limit is probably the initial scan for errors since I believe it all has to be loaded into memory. I know I get rather bored when it takes 20 minutes to do this initial scan for 200 lines of recursive code. I've been known to reset the machine because its not interruptible, and edit the code to take a bigger byte than my toy mill is comfortable with since its not exactly a paragon of either horse power or rigidity. Probably the most complex files I have ATM that were auto-generated, were generated by pcb2gcode. A fairly small board, 1.3"x2.15" both 'etch' files are under 7,000 LOC each according to wc -l. But I'd hate to see the files that carved that toyota engine block I saw being carved on youtube. I could believe a million or more LOC for that. And of course that means gigabytes of dram if its all pulled into memory at load/scan time. I don't envy what you are undertaking to do, simply because the answers are going to be VERY wide ranging. Cheers, Gene -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) My web page: <http://coyoteden.dyndns-free.com:85/gene> is up! My views <http://www.armchairpatriot.com/What%20Has%20America%20Become.shtml> * dpkg ponders: 'C++' should have been called 'D' -- #Debian A pen in the hand of this president is far more dangerous than 200 million guns in the hands of law-abiding citizens. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ See everything from the browser to the database with AppDynamics Get end-to-end visibility with application monitoring from AppDynamics Isolate bottlenecks and diagnose root cause in seconds. Start your free trial of AppDynamics Pro today! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=48808831&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
