Found an Old Bug
I had a case today, one one of the few times I get to use MeshCAM for a real project, where I had a metric STL file and I was using my normal Mach 3-Inch post processor. The intention all along had been that MeshCAM would have done the mm-to-inch conversion work without user intervention when saving the gcode. I was surprised when my mill tried to jog the X axis 185 inches to the right- this was obviously broken. I ended up finding a bug that eliminated the units read from the post processor config file and just set them to match...
read moreV3 Build 5 Uploaded
I just uploaded the V3 build 5 beta to http://www.grzsoftware.com/v2dl.php . The primary fix here is the offset roughing crashes that were occurring. I can’t say for certain that the problem is gone for good but I have not been able to cause the problem to happen after I found the source of the problem. I also made a number of performance improvements so I would appreciate any feedback you can give about these. My favorite addition is that you can now drag any compatible file onto the window to open it. This was a simple...
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I think I found the bug that has been holding back my next release. Some users may have seen crashing when using certain models with the new offset roughing. The crashes were repeatable but would come and go as the machining parameters were changed. The problem was in the third-party library I’ve been using but it was my fault- I changed a parameter (a floating point epsilon for the programmers out there) with the intention of making everything more robust. I obviously failed and have now put the parameter value closer to where it...
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