Hi Beau On Thursday 18 May 2006 04:55, Beau Beaufait wrote:
am running BDI 4.38 with Jon's PPMC cards and a Bostomatic mill. Today running a Meshcam file to do some engraving in wood the EMC would just stop like it was paused. The spindle didn't stop it just stopped progressing through the file. I tried "resume" and nothing happened but when I tried "step" it would proceed on and then "resume" would work. This happened many times over several hours. Sometimes only a few (5 or less) min. between events other times like 20 min. The machine reported NO errors when this would happen,
Could you mail the offending file to me off list along with an indication of roughly which line(s) appear to trigger the problem please. The BDI-4.38 uses a 2.6.12.6-rtai kernel and there has been a couple of updates uploaded to the repository at http://bdi4emc.ourproject.org/debian/ which might cure the problem.. By the sounds of it, it is an intermittant bug which are often a pain to track down. The most likely area is the trajectory planner getting tripped up - Matt has been busy rewriting this section (thanks Matt) and may have fixed the problem in the process. Regards, Paul.