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[01:31:52] <jmkasunich> managed to confuse offs:
http://jmkasunich.com/pics/offs-3.png
[01:34:06] <jmkasunich> oh, I think I know what I did - I offset so much that the pocket disappeared - so offs turned it inside out (sort of)
[01:40:52] <cradek> you may not have noticed this, but offs doesn't quite get everything right yet :-)
[01:42:41] <jmkasunich> oh, I've noticed
[01:42:48] <jmkasunich> I'm fixing up a couple things now
[01:43:57] <cradek> I ruined a part yesterday with a wrong arc (no preview, hand edited gcode on the BOSS)
[01:44:08] <cradek> got it right on the second try though
[01:44:13] <jmkasunich> bummer
[01:44:15] <cradek> our preview is so nice.
[01:44:36] <cradek> no big deal. learning experience!
[01:44:45] <jmkasunich> I'd be basically hopeless without it
[01:44:55] <cradek> (the lesson is don't hand edit gcode and then not test run it)
[01:45:00] <jmkasunich> o-word programming loops and such would be insane
[01:45:18] <cradek> I actually have a hacked up emc that accepts (some of) the BOSS gcodes so I can get a preview
[01:45:34] <jmkasunich> woo-hoo - got the last of the "fur" out of the program
[01:45:36] <cradek> but I didn't bother - it was just a simple change!
[01:45:44] <cradek> heh, fur?
[01:46:16] <jmkasunich> little loops and excursions from what should be a square corner
[01:46:23] <jmkasunich> offs roundoff errors or something
[01:46:30] <cradek> ah I see
[01:46:31] <jmkasunich> some are only a few thou
[01:46:59] <cradek> making a better finishing pass?
[01:47:05] <jmkasunich> I'm gonna run the last manifold with 0.010 stepdowns instead of 0.050, to try to get rid of the tool lines
[01:47:14] <jmkasunich> I know its gonna take a long time, but its only one part
[01:47:30] <jmkasunich> when I re-ran offs with the finer steps I got some fur
[01:47:34] <cradek> that will be neat.
[01:47:50] <jmkasunich> 2200 lines of g-code now (was just over 1000)
[01:48:12] <cradek> look out, that's probably over 100 feet, might not fit
[01:48:17] <jmkasunich> heh
[01:48:32] <cradek> NR
[01:48:32] <cradek> NR
[01:48:33] <cradek> NR
[01:48:39] <cradek> (that's what BOSS says)
[01:48:40] <jmkasunich> I think it should be safe to up the feedrate a bit for these very light passes
[01:48:57] <jmkasunich> from 12 to 15 ipm should help a little
[01:49:13] <cradek> was that a 1/4" mill?
[01:49:29] <jmkasunich> 1/8" ball
[01:49:36] <cradek> ah, that's small
[01:50:01] <jmkasunich> roughing is 1/4", that is at 12 ipm, and zero to 0.100" width, 0.075 depth per pass
[01:50:49] <jmkasunich> roughing leave 0.025, pre-finish takes that to 0.015 (and gets into the corners that the 1/4" mill couldn't), with 0.060 stepdown
[01:51:01] <jmkasunich> finish takes off the last 0.015 and uses the real fine stepdown
[01:51:26] <jmkasunich> and here we go.....
[01:52:04] <cradek> do you ever leave it and let it cut, or does it not have your trust that much yet?
[01:54:49] <jmkasunich> for light cuts I leave it
[01:55:00] <jmkasunich> during roughing I squirt it with wd-40
[01:55:15] <jmkasunich> I don't leave any farther than this keyboard, 8 feet away
[01:55:26] <jmkasunich> unfortunately I'm here now because I got a following error
[01:55:38] <cradek> ugh
[01:55:51] <jmkasunich> last pass of roughing (I roughed a little deeper this time, that last loop must have been too small somehow
[01:56:26] <cradek> but ferror from just a funny path?
[01:56:54] <jmkasunich> maybe quick successive invocations of backlash - two reversals very close together?
[01:57:19] <cradek> seems like backlash + screwcomp + steppers is not well tested
[01:57:20] <jmkasunich> I just manually edited out the last roughing pass (it was cutting air anyway), gonna start again
[01:58:44] <jmkasunich> we know comp can generate 150% accel
[02:09:13] <jmkasunich> rough and pre-finish done, its started on the half-million finish orbits
[02:11:07] <jmkasunich> there are definitely places in the path where blending is failing - indicated velocity drops, and I can see it stop (or at least almost stop)
[02:11:33] <jmkasunich> probably places where offs generated paths with very short segments
[02:12:00] <cradek> that'll sure do it
[02:12:00] <jmkasunich> I have G64P0.010
[02:12:14] <cradek> but that doesn't help if they are arcs
[02:13:09] <jmkasunich> the tolerance affects non-tangent intersections, right? (assuming the segs aren't too short)
[02:14:27] <jmkasunich> not quite half way down, and looking nice
[02:14:33] <cradek> I don't understand the question
[02:14:57] <jmkasunich> G64P0.010 means you can round non-tangent intersections, right?
[02:15:11] <jmkasunich> (tangent ones can be exactly followed)
[02:15:20] <cradek> yes with up to .010 diversion from the programmed endpoint
[02:15:51] <cradek> also, if a series of straight moves stay within .010 of a line, it throws out the intermediate points in favor of the longer line
[02:15:57] <jmkasunich> so why did you say "that doesn't help if they are arcs"?
[02:16:08] <cradek> ^
[02:16:21] <jmkasunich> I don't think my g-code contains any such series of lines
[02:16:23] <cradek> you aren't seeing much or any of this secondary benefit
[02:16:25] <cradek> right
[02:16:39] <cradek> it's the 'naive cam detector' code
[02:16:46] <jmkasunich> its only a benefit if you have crappy cam, which I don't have
[02:16:59] <cradek> yep that's pretty much why we wrote it
[02:17:32] <jmkasunich> I'm pretty sure the hesitation I'm seeing is at an arc-arc transition
[02:17:37] <jmkasunich> non-tangent
[02:18:04] <cradek> one of the arcs is short?
[02:18:08] <jmkasunich> the original path has arc-arc-arc, both transitions tangent - the offset path is no longer tangent at the intersections
[02:18:27] <jmkasunich> the middle arc gets shorter each time I move down (and increase the offset)
[02:18:28] <cradek> the exact tangency doesn't matter much at all
[02:18:37] <jmkasunich> at some point I bet the middle arc disappears
[02:19:04] <cradek> hope it actually disappears, and doesn't change into an infinitely small arc
[02:19:51] <jmkasunich> I'd have to examing the g-code to be sure
[02:19:57] <jmkasunich> maybe later - its almost done
[02:22:30] <cradek> + (command ".pedit" (entlast) "e" "b" "n" "g" "x" "x")
[02:22:35] <cradek> oops
[02:24:10] <jmkasunich> done
[02:24:51] <jmkasunich> I must say that is quite purty
[02:25:18] <cradek> photo!
[02:25:59] <jmkasunich> near the end as the orbits got small it was doing one every few seconds
[02:30:32] <jmkasunich> http://jmkasunich.com/pics/port-fine-machined-2019.jpg
[02:30:48] <jmkasunich> compare to
http://jmkasunich.com/pics/port-machined-2014.jpg
[02:30:55] <cradek> cool!
[02:31:22] <jmkasunich> you can see a line running up at about 2 o'clock - that is one of the places it was pausing
[02:31:43] <cradek> pretty consistent
[02:31:52] <cradek> what's in the gcode there?
[02:32:14] <jmkasunich> line to arc
[02:33:21] <cradek> is one overly short?
[02:33:58] <jmkasunich> the arc runs all the way around to about 12 o'clock (I'm cutting CCW - climb milling)
[02:34:09] <jmkasunich> the line is about 1/8" ling
[02:34:41] <jmkasunich> about 0.5 seconds at 15 imp
[02:35:06] <cradek> I wonder if it still does it if you use G64 only
[02:35:33] <jmkasunich> my accels are only 4 ips^2
[02:36:09] <jmkasunich> 15 ipm is 0.25 ips, so it only takes 0.0625 seconds to accel from stop
[02:36:49] <cradek> might be a bug/unfortunate feature then
[02:37:47] <jmkasunich> its dog-walkin time here (trying to not stay up so late) - maybe tomorrow I'll extract a single pass around the loop from the program and see what it does in more detail
[02:38:01] <cradek> that would be great
[02:38:11] <cradek> goodnight, I should do that too.
[02:38:25] <jmkasunich> actually, I can post one loop right now - its less than 20 lines
[02:38:37] <cradek> no hurry, I won't look at it tonight anyway
[02:38:44] <jmkasunich> ok, tomorrow it is
[02:50:40] <jmkasunich> http://www.pastebin.ca/985550
[02:50:53] <jmkasunich> I started to annotate it, and realize that there are all kinds of weird things in there
[02:51:14] <jmkasunich> really tiny arcs, including some G2's where I was expecting only G3, etc
[02:51:27] <jmkasunich> also two consecutive G1s with the same endpoint
[02:51:42] <jmkasunich> won't mean a lot without the corresponding offs input path
[02:51:46] <jmkasunich> tomorrow maybe
[02:51:47] <cradek> that's a certain exact stop
[02:52:34] <cradek> I bet these are more like offs bugs than emc bugs
[02:53:14] <jmkasunich> yeah, the doubled lines certainly
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