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« on: November 08, 2013, 08:49:18 AM »
Sorry for not getting back earlier but been very busy.
Anyway I tested out the plugin and over all it seemed to work well. I do have issues however and most are related to the SmoothStepper and the way it controls a Step/Dir spindle, it is poor and often drops pulses and makes my spindle jolt violently. Because of that I cant do too much testing as it is obviously not good for my spindle.
I did seem to have one problem with your plugin in that if I tried to edit the code then it would not regen the toolpath, it just hung then when I cancelled and tried to regen again it would say to stop before trying to do anything. Pressing Stop had no effect, it would just say cant run from present feedhold, had to disable the plugin before I could do anything. Once enabled again it would be fine until I tried to do any more editing etc.
I would have liked to test further so I could be more specific but wth the Smoothstepper spindle issues I didnt want to I am afraid.
Hopefully I will get a chance to try on the small lathe, it uses the CSMIO controler and has no such issues with the spindle.
Hood