Ok, While trying to figure out why my router seems to stop, pause, and then go again while running a simple design using Control, and why the 3D window seems to lag behind where the tool actually is, I tried looking at what else my computer is doing and noticed 4 OpenbuildsControl are running at the same time. all the same version. I only opened it once. Then closed out and tried again only to discover the same thing. Is this normal? Any ideas?
That's normal. Does your code have a bunch of small arc moves in it? What OS/System are you running it on?
Could be. What I was cutting was a revised design which I had to explode, edit, then link back together again. I just thought it was weird. But what's with the several different Openbuildscontrol.exe on the taskmanager's list that are all running at the same time?
"Multithreading" - backend, UI, Renderer, etc spawns multiple threads to multitask better. Most of them are Idle, the backend one will be busy streaming gcode to Grbl, the UI one will be busy showing you whats going on. Renderer thread creates the 3D view (but sits idle until you load the next file) etc Depends how far, there is of course a delay from when Grbl moves tool, to when we get feedback data, worked it, parsed it, showed it up in the UI etc - so there is a delay of say half a second at most
