G64 question

[thedoctor]

Yeah, it's me again! I have the plasma running quite well, actually, until I hit an ellipse in the shape I am cutting. Lots of small, jerky steps. I tried putting G64 in the first line without a P- variable and I tried it with a P2 variable. I really couldn't tell any difference. I would like to see a nice, smooth output even if it is at the expense of some accuracy. Thanks for all your help in this adventure!

[samco]

There has been a change to the development version of emc that adds arc combining.. The released version only combines line segments that are within the Px.xxxx.

If you want to try it - you can get the development version (called trunk) to test it out.

you would need to follow these directions..
http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/emc...04_from_source

sam

[Big John T]

AFAIK you will need the TRUNK version to take advantage of the latest improvements in the naive-cam detector for arcs.

Instructions are here.

http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bi/emci...ource_with_CVS

I do the run in place and point my desk top shortcut to the trunk version. If you need any help with this just holler...

John