I am running emc from an X11 session on a remote mac now, and am getting one second updates on average, after many minutes into a 8K line 3 axis job (cutting just air, I should add). So while not pretty to watch, it is nicer than sitting out in my freezing cold shop while tinkering with emc. This is on a standard wireless home network. The velocity Axis says emc is achieving (under X) is the same as I get when I run the session locally, although I am not asking for the max possible speed so its not a very tough test. Did you think emc itself will slow down, or just the graphics updates?
PS. The risk of having an unattended machine going haywire and self destructing is very real, so my latest toy is a web cam and I have started to play with hooking that up to act like a remote monitor (with sound) so I can see and hear the mill. [email protected] > Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2010 22:55:41 -0500 > From: Jon Elson <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Emc-users] AXIS running remote to EMC2 machine > > The problem with this is that the 3D preview window is an Open-GL 3D > accelerated display, and makes heavy demands on the CPU and graphics > card EVEN when running on the local hardware. Exporting it by an X > session will slow it down horribly. It may work OK for a static > display, but when you start moving the machine around, it will really > bog down. And, the heavy X traffic for the 3D window will slow > everything else down, like to one update every 10 seconds. > > Did you actually try it? > Jon ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
