I just started using Fusion 360 for my CAM tool. I was using SheetCAM before and its drilling routines were all just G01 moves. It was very quick between holes. Fusion is using canned cycles and they seem to have a 1-2 second delay between X/Y moves between holes. Here is the offending code:

...
G98 G73 X0.425 Y-0.665 Z-0.85 R-0.3 Q0.1 F13.5
X1.425
X4.575
X5.575
G80
...

Is there any way to speed this up? The PC I'm using has a 3.4GHz  Pentium 4 with 3Gb of RAM. I'm running an Ethernet Smooth Stepper in the controller. I've tried upping the lookahead from 20 to 200 and that made no difference. Any suggestions?

Thanks,


Chris

I do not see any delays using your code on an LPT version of Mach3 so I would suspect the problem lies in the Smoothstepper not Mach3.

Might want to check with Greg over at Warp9 about the problem.

(;-) TP

DONE. I reposted this on the Warp9 forum.

Thanks for the feedback.