Slowdown in arc-line-arc

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10 Dec 2021 16:19 - 10 Dec 2021 16:29 #228785 by fernandosf
Mine is a plasma, I have seen some slowdown where it would blend smoothly with G64P0.1 (mm).
I'm new to LinuxCNC.
Tried to do a HalScope: 

 

You can see that on sharp corners (orange line) it slows down, ok, that's expected.
But on arc-line (lines 38 and 39  of gcode) I hoped it would blend without loosing speed, but velocity drops to half.

Is this intend behaviour?
It's really bad for plasma cutting, as when cutting thin stainless steel the torch vaporizes surrounding material when it drops speed.

I'm attaching the g-code file, will have to get back to the shop to recover my LinuxCNC .ini file .

 

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File Name: buddha-fer-3c.ini
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I tried to change  to G64 P1 Q0.1 and other values, but, or it starts to loose the shape or it has mininum effect on the slowdown.

I'm using LinuxCNC 2.9 and QTPlasmaC, it's a chinese BoB, parallel port.
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10 Dec 2021 17:14 #228788 by Michael
Replied by Michael on topic Slowdown in arc-line-arc
What type of acceleration does the machine have? The G64 settings will behave differently based on each machines acceleration.

G64 without any modifications will maintain speed as best as possible in corners. But sharp corners will see them cut in an effort to maintain that speed. This setting has the most path deviation.

G64 P and Q values will limit the amount of blending/deviation to maintain speed but will slow down in corners a certain amount.

If you have multiple splines in a design versus one continuous arc you may get some odd behavior as each small segment is interrupted in the blending. Try to redraw the file to have clean lines and arcs with no splines. Often when you convert images to dxf you will get splines which when you zoom in on them are jagged for no reason.

For your design in question the parts highlighted should be only a few lines of g code. The straight line with sharp corner to a large arc and then a different large arc. I would make sure your cam software has smoothing turned off and and check tolerance settings. These settings tend to create multiple small lines/arcs in a gcode file but then get reinterpreted in linuxcnc with it's blending settings.

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10 Dec 2021 18:44 #228793 by fernandosf
Replied by fernandosf on topic Slowdown in arc-line-arc

What type of acceleration does the machine have? The G64 settings will behave differently based on each machines acceleration.

What do you mean? Those are steppers (open loop).

If you have multiple splines in a design versus one continuous arc you may get some odd behavior as each small segment is interrupted in the blending. Try to redraw the file to have clean lines and arcs with no splines. Often when you convert images to dxf you will get splines which when you zoom in on them are jagged for no reason.

I design in Illustrator, then convert to SVG, then input in SheetCam. Illustrator has a "simplify" path that seems to do what you mean, but when I import into SheetCam it gives me those odd lines between arcs, sometimes very tiny ones.

For your design in question the parts highlighted should be only a few lines of g code. The straight line with sharp corner to a large arc and then a different large arc. I would make sure your cam software has smoothing turned off and and check tolerance settings. These settings tend to create multiple small lines/arcs in a gcode file but then get reinterpreted in linuxcnc with it's blending settings.

I'm not sure Sheetcam has such features (smoothness control, I mean)

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10 Dec 2021 20:16 #228803 by tommylight
Replied by tommylight on topic Slowdown in arc-line-arc
To many points for failure.
Use wizard, do some shapes, post results.

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10 Dec 2021 20:37 #228810 by Michael
Replied by Michael on topic Slowdown in arc-line-arc
For acceleration on open loop steppers the value is expressed in your ini file. Lower values will cause more dramatic corner cutting in G64. This is because it has to slow down sooner for a corner.

I'm with Tommy. Try doing some simple square patterns that you hand write the gcode for and see if you have the same issues. I have gotten files from illustrator before and when you zoom in on the SVG the lines are all splines and have a lot of garbage/clutter. I have found inkscape makes a more useable SVG but with steep learning curve. All my cad and cam is done in fusion360 so I can't help much with your setup.

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