I was doing a material test and noticed that it sort of has a mind of it’s own when actually running. I marked up this screenshot here to show what’s going on. Instead of 5 passes, it’s doing 4 on that particular column. On the 9 pass column it decides to do 8 passes (noticed after taking screenshot). All the others are good.
Material settings screen is speed 600mm/min, line, 3 passes) 0.75 kerf.
This is where I’ve changed the setting to fill and messed with crosshatch and flood fill on the material test.
This screen also dictates the max power of the material test. But I’m a bit confused as to what’s happening and if the number 3 being present here, has anything to do with how it decides what to actually do?
Am I doing something wrong or might this be a bug?
Yeah, I think that was a carry-over from conducting a fill test.
It sounds like the rounding in the programming of the material test function is what creates this situation.
It’s not a catastrophic issue, but is probably common and unnoticed if people don’t happen to glance at the console or the bottom of the screen layer in progress while it’s going.
Then you look at your test results and might excuse some miscuts to material inconsistency or otherwise make bad judgements.
My trial runs out tomorrow and I just purchased the license. I love this software. INCREDIBLY powerful and so intuitive.
It would make a difference when your test grid shows, for instance, “5”, but actually only made 4 passes, and you take that data and apply to a project parameter where specifying “5” really gets you 5 passes. Good catch.
