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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: GSim Mach4 Material Removal Simulator

« on: February 05, 2015, 10:55:54 PM »

Terry:

  Actually, the stock size has great effect on overall resolution. The resolution of GSim in "medium res" is width or height ( whichever is larger) / 1024. So if a job is 6" x 6"
in size, the resolution of Gsims model is .005" , in extreme res its .0029" per triangle vertex. SO having the stock larger than the model has a detrimental effect on resolution.
  Since a sim is usually just to allow one to either play with various tools in an artitistic sense, or verify clearance of a tool, I dont think trying to make it too realistic
is high on the agenda.. but yanvrno....

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: GSim Mach4 Material Removal Simulator

« on: February 05, 2015, 10:26:32 PM »

Gerry:

  Ahh, yes, now I understand. Unfortunatley, GCode comments couldnt work, GSim gets its data from m4, so m4'd have to understand them, the plugin has
no way to get them. Ill keep it in mind though for when a tim ecomes I may want to switch to an app window for it. GSim was written for Gearotic, which has no heavy
need for complexities, most gears are more easily done with auto stock size , its easy to see what a gear woudl look like. The more artistic the job the more usefull a
simulator is to my mind.. its more of an artistic theing than an engineering one..


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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: GSim Mach4 Material Removal Simulator

« on: February 05, 2015, 09:39:50 PM »

Hi All:

 Version 1.016..

 Fixes tool selections..

Ger:

    Im having trouble picturing it.. drawa quick skecth if you like, Id be interested to see. I guess I can imagine circumstances where itd be necessary.. but it sounds like a lot of work,
Ill wait fer a bit.. 

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: GSim Mach4 Material Removal Simulator

« on: February 05, 2015, 09:18:15 PM »

Gerry:

   It chooses the stock to be the size of the job, but it does always start it at zero Z height. I do think a resizable window
woudl be more usefull and I do have that in planning, but Ill wait to see if its really a usefull utitllity via the download
counters and feedback to see if it reaches a level of attraction that justfies the development time.  It does sound like a bug for
the tool though, Ill run some tests to see why its not properly switching.. Im pretty sure I missed something in there now that
I consider that.. A new version will be released to fix that up.. Preciate the bug report..

Thx
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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: GSim Mach4 Material Removal Simulator

« on: February 05, 2015, 04:36:49 PM »

Thx Karl:

   Not sure about memory as yet, funny it runs here.. ( thats always the way.

Thx for the reports, lets see what happens over the next few days..

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: GSim Mach4 Material Removal Simulator

« on: February 05, 2015, 02:32:12 PM »

Karl:

  Sorry about that, I did discover another important metric/inch bug. This version fixes it and the taped bit up..

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: GSim Mach4 Material Removal Simulator

« on: February 05, 2015, 09:48:05 AM »

Hi All:

 This is GSim version 1.015 , its a bit faster and optimized, the window is also a bit smaller to avoid cuttoff
on your screens. Hope you enjoy it..

Thx
Art

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: GSim Mach4 Material Removal Simulator

« on: February 04, 2015, 05:20:36 PM »

Karl:

  Ive shrunk the window a bit for next release.. I realize its cutting off on some machines..

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: GSim Mach4 Material Removal Simulator

« on: February 04, 2015, 03:56:04 PM »

Might be memory issue, extreme is pretty memory hungry..

 I guess that why I call it extreme.. lol , runs here with same sequence..

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: GSim Mach4 Material Removal Simulator

« on: February 04, 2015, 02:55:52 PM »

Karl:

  Weird, runs fine here.. rigth to end onm extreme. Ill keep looking. I see the top and rigth side doesnt machine away.. and it should.

Art