On Wednesday 08 October 2014 10:44:58 Sebastian Kuzminsky did opine And Gene did reply: > On 10/8/14 9:01 AM, Schooner wrote: > > First Q > > > > From Axis > > > > File > Properties > > > > Brings up the properties of the currently loaded gcode including > > estimated run time > > > > Always underestimates as it takes no account of time used in > > acceleration and deceleration to/from the required Feed speed > > Yep, the estimate is off. It's based on the gcode only, and does not > take into account important things like machine acceleration and > spindle acceleration as you say, as well as things like tolerance (G64 > P) and probing. > > The only way I can think of to improve the estimate would be to run the > motion controller, disconnected from actual motion, and see how long > the motion actually takes. That's probably possible, but it's not a > small change to design & implement.
And not that big a deal Seb. We all by know by now its a SWAG. To bill machine time from that would be a mistake. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> US V Castleman, SCOTUS, Mar 2014 is grounds for Impeaching SCOTUS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Meet PCI DSS 3.0 Compliance Requirements with EventLog Analyzer Achieve PCI DSS 3.0 Compliant Status with Out-of-the-box PCI DSS Reports Are you Audit-Ready for PCI DSS 3.0 Compliance? Download White paper Comply to PCI DSS 3.0 Requirement 10 and 11.5 with EventLog Analyzer http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=154622311&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
