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Newfangled Solutions Mach3 Wizards / Circle cutting wizard and Cutter Compensation
« on: February 20, 2012, 04:18:10 PM »
Hi all,
Today I had an issue when using the circle cutting wizard where the tool path ended up with a small "dogtail" cut outside of my desired inside cut circle. Since I use a Tormach 1100 mill, I asked first at CNCzone and a user pointed out that there were G41's in the code and suggested deleting them. When I did that, the circles cut just fine. I didn't understand why they were there in the first place, so I came over here and did a search for the issue. I didn't find that problem exactly, but a similar thing was happening to a gent cutting DB-9 openings using that wizard. The responses indicated he did have a problem with the cutter comp and gave him a work around.
In my case, I did not intentionally ask for any compensation, and in the wizard I selected an arbitrary tool number, that was not populated in the tool table, so I don't know why it was added to the code. So, I guess my real question is, why did it show up, and how can I keep it from doing so?
Thanks
Terry
Today I had an issue when using the circle cutting wizard where the tool path ended up with a small "dogtail" cut outside of my desired inside cut circle. Since I use a Tormach 1100 mill, I asked first at CNCzone and a user pointed out that there were G41's in the code and suggested deleting them. When I did that, the circles cut just fine. I didn't understand why they were there in the first place, so I came over here and did a search for the issue. I didn't find that problem exactly, but a similar thing was happening to a gent cutting DB-9 openings using that wizard. The responses indicated he did have a problem with the cutter comp and gave him a work around.
In my case, I did not intentionally ask for any compensation, and in the wizard I selected an arbitrary tool number, that was not populated in the tool table, so I don't know why it was added to the code. So, I guess my real question is, why did it show up, and how can I keep it from doing so?
Thanks
Terry