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Mach 3 Issues Now
- Thread starter speedre9
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In V carve we set the clearance to 0.250 not 0.7874 that you had it set on. Go back to the V Carve program and change it to 0.250 and recalculate the program.
While running a program the safe Z has no effect only when Go to Zero.
In the sprocket txt you did have the clearance gap set at 0.250.
If you open a program that you used before and save it then V Carve will remember many of the settings from that program. If you open a program that someone else wrote then write one of your own you have to check if any of the settings have changed.
Every time you start a new V Carve file you set up the material size, where the Z zero is, and where the X and Y zero is located. When you are ready to compute the tool path the first thin you should do is check the material settings on the right hand side at the top. Make sure you have all the settings where they should be for your machine. This is where you set the clearance gap, material thickness, and Z zero.
Until you are comfortable with the program you should check this every time before calculating any tool path.
Ray
While running a program the safe Z has no effect only when Go to Zero.
In the sprocket txt you did have the clearance gap set at 0.250.
If you open a program that you used before and save it then V Carve will remember many of the settings from that program. If you open a program that someone else wrote then write one of your own you have to check if any of the settings have changed.
Every time you start a new V Carve file you set up the material size, where the Z zero is, and where the X and Y zero is located. When you are ready to compute the tool path the first thin you should do is check the material settings on the right hand side at the top. Make sure you have all the settings where they should be for your machine. This is where you set the clearance gap, material thickness, and Z zero.
Until you are comfortable with the program you should check this every time before calculating any tool path.
Ray
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Friends over at Vectric Forum have suggested that I may using the wrong post processor. One has written a new code script for a test cut and it looks nothing at all like what I have saved!!
I don't think it's Mach 3 being configured improperly I think V Carve is remembering too much of the similar tool paths I had already generated. Compare this to my other file.
http://www.hobby-machinist.com/attachments/test-txt.131975/
I don't think it's Mach 3 being configured improperly I think V Carve is remembering too much of the similar tool paths I had already generated. Compare this to my other file.
http://www.hobby-machinist.com/attachments/test-txt.131975/
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Do you mean that Z goes to the top, to the end of travel or the limit switch?
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Are you doing tool offsets? or just manually setting your zero off the top of the stock?
In your code:
N40T2M06
N50G00G43Z0.2500H2
If you are not doing offsets in your tool table in Mach3 if there is any value other than zero for tool 2 (T2) mach3 will compensate for the tool offset (H2) based on the referece zero. This will cause the Z to do bad things.
In your code:
N40T2M06
N50G00G43Z0.2500H2
If you are not doing offsets in your tool table in Mach3 if there is any value other than zero for tool 2 (T2) mach3 will compensate for the tool offset (H2) based on the referece zero. This will cause the Z to do bad things.