Mike:
I believe it will work fine, it should work as well as the smoothstepper as they share the motion interface. Cant guarentee it, but they should both work.
You dont need to do much to try tempest anyway, just download and unzip to mach3 folder, and run mach3tempestsep29.exe instead of mach3.exe..
Id love to hear if it actually works OK on the dsp...
Art
Hi Art.
A couple of things,
1. I must pay attention to what Art actually types, it makes it go much easier.
2. When cutting large files like the sailboat hull, remember to have your license file in place. When I put the new computer in place, I forgot it. I was wondering why it kept stopping in the middle of the program.
3. It works with my DSPMC/IP and is working well. I am using version 028 with the 051 firmware and the matching plug in.
4. There is a very noticeable difference between Tempest and the traditional Mach 3 trajectory planner. The floor that the mill is on is not perfectly flat (I know, I know) and the machine when running the boat file would just shake and dance on the floor. With Tempest, the machine stays much more steady. I then jacked up the velocity to a point where it would cause servo encoder limit faults and to verify I ran it in Mach3 and sure enough it would fault out. Most likely because the accel was so bang bang it couldn't keep up.
I am now running tempest with the same setting and the machine is just as smooth as can be. I will cut some more air before I actually try a cut but so far so good.
5. Since I have the machine setup to run Keygrabber it doesn't work with tempest the way it is setup and since the velocity is set so high I can't jog anyway, I am not going to worry about it right now.
6. 6000 mm/min is 233 ipm, a lot faster than the machine normally cuts but it is going well at this time.
Keep up the good work.
7.It must be tough being retired and putting out something like this.
Mike