Lance,
I'd be glad to send a file. most of my are very very long. Approx 500,000 pluse lines, but I may have a smaller file... I'll look through my stuff this weekend and send it via you email. I have a friend that uses Artcam and I've been attempting to use his software to make my code, but have used a program called Profiler and also the tiff converter that came with the router.
I just re-read the past sevral posts, ---- The only time I have a problem with melting is in acrylic and I can adjust my feedrate for that. If I can find a way to keep the acrylic cool than I can run faster, possible even to match what I do in Corian which is between 5 and 6 in per sec. It does slow down when it changes its Z height, and thats where I loose time.
You mentioned,
"I wrote a program that looked at each line of his source gcode, read the Z value, and used a curve to to get the appropriate feedrate."
I'm not sure what you mean when you use a curve to get the appropriate feed rate.
Again I'll look for that file this weekend and try to send it sometime saturday night or sunday.
Thanks again Lance,
Don  |