On Thu, 7/18/13, John Kasunich <[email protected]> wrote: Subject: Re: [Emc-users] query: how long was your longes G-Code program ever? To: [email protected] Date: Thursday, July 18, 2013, 7:48 PM On Thu, Jul 18, 2013, at 02:04 PM, Stuart Stevenson wrote: > I had a handful of mylar dots from a tape punch. Andy P called them > antibits. 1/2 million lines would be a large pile of it - :) And Mike Payson wrote: > Like others have said, gcode files for 3d printers van get BIG. > I export all my gcode to a single directory > > I checked, and the largest file there is 1,708,605 lines and 51,650,578 > characters long. > Geek that I am, I just had to do the math: If that file was punched onto paper tape, the tape would be 81 miles long. The pile of anti-bits would weigh about 25 lbs. If you wound the tape onto a single spool, it would be 13 feet in diameter and weigh about 700 lbs. "Hey Stuart, we have a new program to load into the Haas. Bring that forklift over here!" ---------------
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