Indeed pycam's perfomance is not great. Calculation speed mainly depends on the following factors: available processing power modelling density
Maybe you can reduce the precision of the model within the range of your target application.
Another thing: maybe you want to upgrade to v0.6.3? It does not really change the performance, but it may be helpful for other details. Your version of pycam is more than 8 years old :)
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I got these high processing times while using an extruded model (see other post). If I find a way to fill in parts, I won't have to do the extrusion part again, which will benefit processing times.
Regarding the version: I used the one on Sourceforge that was downloaded most. I only found 0.6.1 that was higher as a version. Where is 0.6.3 ?
cheers,
BC
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Hi,
using 0.5.1 on Linux Mint. The Extrude function takes a very, very longtime. Did not time it, but it is more than 15 minutes. Can this be helped?
Cheers,
BC
I just tried to generate the toolpath for an extruded model and this indicated that the job would take 8 hours! Can this be improved?
BC
Indeed pycam's perfomance is not great. Calculation speed mainly depends on the following factors:
available processing power
modelling density
Maybe you can reduce the precision of the model within the range of your target application.
Another thing: maybe you want to upgrade to v0.6.3? It does not really change the performance, but it may be helpful for other details. Your version of pycam is more than 8 years old :)
Hi Lars,
I got these high processing times while using an extruded model (see other post). If I find a way to fill in parts, I won't have to do the extrusion part again, which will benefit processing times.
Regarding the version: I used the one on Sourceforge that was downloaded most. I only found 0.6.1 that was higher as a version. Where is 0.6.3 ?
cheers,
BC
Indeed the newer downloads appeared on github:
https://github.com/SebKuzminsky/pycam/releases
(see http://pycam.sourceforge.net/)