Post by donk on Dec 11, 2013 21:16:21 GMT -8
Thanks Oliver. I talked to Dan there and he sent me new firmwear 2.002
which I loaded and ran. It only made things worse as it stops twice on X axis movement and has no effect on speed rates or anything else that I can see. Now I am waiting for Dan to send me the old firmwear to get back to where I was.
After more testing with a simple 10" square profile in VcurvePro producing an .nc file and then through ipicture to get a .gee file, I find that the tool speed rate setting has absolutely no effect on the machines performance. It runs at the same speed rate regardless of the programed tool setting, ie. about 25 in/min in X direction and about 100 in/min in Y on the machine Low speed setting! The same is true when using PhotoVcarve. So, I conclude that Gcode tool rates are totally ignored. This means that the machine is only good for angular or raster type carves through ipicture or PhotoVcarve but not for straight Y movements. This is totally bogus from the advertised Gcode compatability. Unless Oliver makes a quick firmwear change to follow basic Gcode rate commands, this machine has got to go.
which I loaded and ran. It only made things worse as it stops twice on X axis movement and has no effect on speed rates or anything else that I can see. Now I am waiting for Dan to send me the old firmwear to get back to where I was.
After more testing with a simple 10" square profile in VcurvePro producing an .nc file and then through ipicture to get a .gee file, I find that the tool speed rate setting has absolutely no effect on the machines performance. It runs at the same speed rate regardless of the programed tool setting, ie. about 25 in/min in X direction and about 100 in/min in Y on the machine Low speed setting! The same is true when using PhotoVcarve. So, I conclude that Gcode tool rates are totally ignored. This means that the machine is only good for angular or raster type carves through ipicture or PhotoVcarve but not for straight Y movements. This is totally bogus from the advertised Gcode compatability. Unless Oliver makes a quick firmwear change to follow basic Gcode rate commands, this machine has got to go.
