Hey!
As the title suggest, would it be possible to change hardware in the SmoothX controller?
We constantly run into problems regarding high CPU load. The machine is laggy, and it's very frustrating to work with when you know which
button to press but it doesn't appear until 0.5 sec later than it should and you end up pressing the wrong button. I guess it's because it uses
3D model to simulate whatever you program, but because of bad CPU it tends to freeze up. Idle load on the CPU is 80%, and usually at full load under use.
Also, if the part contains several features it becomes so laggy you can't even operate it "normally", meaning you can't read off positioning coordinates
reliably as they only get updated ones every 1 - 1.5 seconds. Whereas the older machines (Matrix/Smart) the numbers are probably refreshed at the same
hertz as the monitor is. Our solution is to split programs in two, while in reality this should not be an issue!
We talked with our retailer and they said it would be impossible because of unknown reasons. We're really tempted to just buy a new CPU and put it in and see what happens.
It's unreal how a 1'000'000$ machine uses a 80$ CPU, rendering it useless for anyone with some standards
As the title suggest, would it be possible to change hardware in the SmoothX controller?
We constantly run into problems regarding high CPU load. The machine is laggy, and it's very frustrating to work with when you know which
button to press but it doesn't appear until 0.5 sec later than it should and you end up pressing the wrong button. I guess it's because it uses
3D model to simulate whatever you program, but because of bad CPU it tends to freeze up. Idle load on the CPU is 80%, and usually at full load under use.
Also, if the part contains several features it becomes so laggy you can't even operate it "normally", meaning you can't read off positioning coordinates
reliably as they only get updated ones every 1 - 1.5 seconds. Whereas the older machines (Matrix/Smart) the numbers are probably refreshed at the same
hertz as the monitor is. Our solution is to split programs in two, while in reality this should not be an issue!
We talked with our retailer and they said it would be impossible because of unknown reasons. We're really tempted to just buy a new CPU and put it in and see what happens.
It's unreal how a 1'000'000$ machine uses a 80$ CPU, rendering it useless for anyone with some standards