I had an issue this morning with my mill missing steps. When I ran a specific code it ran like dog snot. Missed steps sounded ugly ect. I tried running a code I knew that worked and it ran fine. Went back to my other code....... crappy. Rebooted, re-ran.... ugly still.
I noticed that the problem code was 22 + meg in size. changed to peramiters and got it down to 12 meg and now its running fine. My first though was a computer issue so I ran the signal test in mach. No spikes.
Is there an issues with large g-codes? Something I need to know about?
The computer is an AMD 2100+ with 1 gig of DDR ram.
I run lots of large code and would like to head this issue off now, rather then when I need something. I machine wax so I know that its not a material hardness issue. Even when running the code at 50% feedrate the motors stalled and sounded just bad!
Any Ideas?