[Emc-users] Overcoming Broken URLs [Was: Working Mill]

2015-07-03 Thread Erik Christiansen
On 01.07.15 16:14, Gene Heskett wrote: The link should then be valid for anyone clicking on it if their email agent sticks to the rfc's that try to govern how the net works. Firefox does not mind a URL in two parts, broken over two lines. I just highlight the two lines with the mouse, then

Re: [Emc-users] More progress

2015-07-03 Thread Peter C. Wallace
On Thu, 2 Jul 2015, Gene Heskett wrote: Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2015 23:02:31 -0400 From: Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com Reply-To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net To: emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Emc-users] More progress

Re: [Emc-users] Engraving direction question

2015-07-03 Thread andy pugh
On 3 July 2015 at 23:43, Bertho Stultiens ber...@vagrearg.org wrote: Well, not really as a flag. The strokes are a the primary part of the font-definition. It would mean to create an alternative version of the font face. I was just about to suggest that. Hershey_fast and Hershey_unidirectional

Re: [Emc-users] Engraving direction question

2015-07-03 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 03 July 2015 17:38:13 Bertho Stultiens wrote: Hi all, While porting the Hershey fonts for engraving it occurred to me that they are very heavy in pen-up/down movements because many strokes are partials. There is plenty of room for optimization, reducing the rapid moves by about

Re: [Emc-users] Engraving direction question

2015-07-03 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 03 July 2015 19:32:08 Bertho Stultiens wrote: On 07/04/2015 01:06 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: What is the experience of the people here? What would be preferable? A quick (case 1) path or a directionally consistent path (case 2)? If you see more than a nearly invisible artifact

Re: [Emc-users] Engraving direction question

2015-07-03 Thread Stephen Dubovsky
If you look at something like Vectric's V-carve Pro it does the faster no-lift case. I suspect the high-end Aspire tool does the same since they are based on the same code base. For something like an A they don't even lift to go back a little to get to the cross bar. And its geared towards wood

Re: [Emc-users] Engraving direction question

2015-07-03 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 03 July 2015 20:19:09 Bertho Stultiens wrote: On 07/04/2015 01:48 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: If we assume a mill with zero backlash and spindle-speed very much larger than the feed-rate, would you still care or be careful about direction? Call me a picky old fart, I would not

Re: [Emc-users] Engraving direction question

2015-07-03 Thread Bertho Stultiens
On 07/04/2015 02:28 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: If we assume a mill with zero backlash and spindle-speed very much larger than the feed-rate, would you still care or be careful about direction? Call me a picky old fart, I would not dare call you picky. Oh? why not? Lets just say that I

Re: [Emc-users] Engraving direction question

2015-07-03 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 03 July 2015 20:39:39 Bertho Stultiens wrote: On 07/04/2015 02:28 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: If we assume a mill with zero backlash and spindle-speed very much larger than the feed-rate, would you still care or be careful about direction? Call me a picky old fart, I would not

Re: [Emc-users] Engraving direction question

2015-07-03 Thread Bruce Layne
Lasers engrave too, and should produce the same results in both of your examples, although much quicker in the first example. Even on a CNC router or a mill, there is a large amount of variation in the results depending on spindle speed, cutter diameter, grain structure and other physical

Re: [Emc-users] Engraving direction question

2015-07-03 Thread Bertho Stultiens
On 07/04/2015 12:18 AM, Bruce Layne wrote: Even on a CNC router or a mill, there is a large amount of variation in the results depending on spindle speed, cutter diameter, grain structure and other physical properties of the material being engraved, etc. Secondary operations are also a

Re: [Emc-users] Engraving direction question

2015-07-03 Thread Bertho Stultiens
On 07/04/2015 01:06 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: What is the experience of the people here? What would be preferable? A quick (case 1) path or a directionally consistent path (case 2)? If you see more than a nearly invisible artifact using the first method, then it is time to tweak the backlash.

Re: [Emc-users] Engraving direction question

2015-07-03 Thread Bertho Stultiens
On 07/04/2015 01:54 AM, Stephen Dubovsky wrote: If you look at something like Vectric's V-carve Pro it does the faster no-lift case. I suspect the high-end Aspire tool does the same since they are based on the same code base. For something like an A they don't even lift to go back a little

Re: [Emc-users] Engraving direction question

2015-07-03 Thread Bertho Stultiens
On 07/04/2015 01:48 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: If we assume a mill with zero backlash and spindle-speed very much larger than the feed-rate, would you still care or be careful about direction? Call me a picky old fart, I would not dare call you picky. The other part I have no comment. ;-)

Re: [Emc-users] More progress

2015-07-03 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 03 July 2015 10:07:35 Peter C. Wallace wrote: On Thu, 2 Jul 2015, Gene Heskett wrote: Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2015 23:02:31 -0400 From: Gene Heskett ghesk...@wdtv.com Reply-To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC) emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net To: emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net

[Emc-users] Engraving direction question

2015-07-03 Thread Bertho Stultiens
Hi all, While porting the Hershey fonts for engraving it occurred to me that they are very heavy in pen-up/down movements because many strokes are partials. There is plenty of room for optimization, reducing the rapid moves by about 30%, but that means that engraving is not done in a consistent

Re: [Emc-users] More progress

2015-07-03 Thread Gene Heskett
On Friday 03 July 2015 00:03:58 Bruce Layne wrote: On 07/02/2015 08:05 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: Generally its about .008 off the math at the end of an inch on the dial. Sometimes ball screws are sold as .2 per turn, but they're actually 5mm, or .1 per turn and maybe they're 2.5mm. I think

Re: [Emc-users] More progress

2015-07-03 Thread John Thornton
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