http://www.grzsoftware.com/news Tue, 25 Nov 2008 04:45:37 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en There is only part of the program that uses the old ZMap code from the original MeshCAM- the parallel roughing. I started making changes today to eliminate it completely.  I think it will take a few more days and then it should work.  This will have two benefits- memory and ... http://www.grzsoftware.com/news/2008/11/24/zmap-elimination/ My "secret project" depends on machining a number of small objects at very high accuracy.  Because of this I've been having out-of-memory problems on my development laptop; this required digging back into some of the deeper guts of MeshCAM that have been untouched for a while.  I found three relatively ... http://www.grzsoftware.com/news/2008/11/20/tweaking-for-speed/ I just uploaded MeshCAM 7151 to www.grzsoftware.com/files/MeshCAM-Setup.exe .  You will not find it in the check for updates feature of the last few versions because I only want people to try the latest after reading this message.  This is a transition release as I wrap up V2 and begin V3.  ... http://www.grzsoftware.com/news/2008/11/13/meshcam-7151/ I haven't posted much here but there has been a lot of work lately-   Updated wxWidgets to 2.8.7 Added wxLua so the GUI can be written in scripts without recompiling the program. Updated the manual system to allow ... http://www.grzsoftware.com/news/2008/08/10/whats-new/ I've been adding more scripting functions like the ability to offset an STL after loading it.  The image below shows my test case for that function.  You can see where my laptop ran out of memory and couldn't load any more.  I was running under debug mode where the memory ... http://www.grzsoftware.com/news/2008/06/03/more-scripting-and-other-updates/ I've been working for a few days with a large company to see if MeshCAM can be used to automate their machining process.  They have a few things that need to be added and then a bunch more existing features that will have to be exposed via the Lua scripting.  ... http://www.grzsoftware.com/news/2008/05/24/check-surfaces/ I've been trying to work through some problems for Brett P. and he got me thinking that I need a way to duplicate as many user settings that a customer uses to reproduce some bugs.  This got me thinking more about the Lua code I've got built it and it ... http://www.grzsoftware.com/news/2008/05/19/finally-save-toolpath-settings/ I just got done adding a new support forum at http://www.grzsoftware.com/forum .  Yahoo Groups was fine 3 years ago, but it's looking pretty unprofessional to have it hosted there now. It's also painful- for me at least- to browse through everything and keep up to date.  Hopefully this new forum ... http://www.grzsoftware.com/news/2008/05/13/new-support-forum/ Run the Check for Updates command in 6908 and let me know how it works. http://www.grzsoftware.com/news/2008/05/01/new-update/ I was able to spend some time tracking down so bugs pointed out by Randy and Daniel in the last release.  The odd parallel linking gouges have been solved, the surface angle bug has been fixed, and I updated the toolpath dialog to make the surface angle more intuitive ( ... http://www.grzsoftware.com/news/2008/04/30/a-bunch-of-fixes/