Easel Simulating Toolpaths - long time and loosing connection

Easel
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There’s been a few people reporting this problem over the past weeks.

Has anyone had any luck resolving it?

When I try to simulate something simple everything works fine, but when it’s something bigger the pathway simulation takes hours and often times out. It seems worse when using V-bit.

Also has anyone got any work arounds and/or tips on how to simplify files, i have tried combining elements, any other ideas?

Thanks

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You’ll need more memory, a faster computer, and more money. :wink:

Most often it comes down to how many nodes your design has in it. There are instructions in these forums for how to optimize a design. If in Easel, you may get away with editing all points and delete some, or go external with Inkscape to clean it up that way. You’ll find them with a quick search in the forums. Good luck!

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Hi AA1 :slight_smile:

Could you share the URL to your project?

We are actively working on making tool path generation faster.

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hi. thanks for replying.
i am using easel on a mac with chrome.
is the processing power on my mac likely to be effecting this?
i have read a few accounts of people having what looks like this issue in the last few weeks.
their computer or design hasn’t come up as an issue.
if i need to upgrade i will but i don’t want to do that if the issue is somewhere else.

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Share your project with @JeffTalbot and his team @AA1

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Depending on when “in the last few weeks” you saw those reports, it could have been due to this issue that we resolved:

Your computer hardware will always play a role in the performance of tool path generation, but we are working on making it as fast as possible for the average computer.

Please share the URL when you have a chance :slight_smile:

Thanks,
Jeff

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Hi everyone. Sorry for not replying sooner. I have sent the file to Jeff so will see how that goes.

thanks