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General Mach Discussion / Re: IS THERE ANY WAY TO JOG AROUND BOUNDARIES OF GCODE IN MACH3
« on: September 15, 2017, 10:13:32 PM »
Hi,
if you want to go around the outline of your part to ensure that your material is well placed within the machining boundaries of your machine then its
likely to fail.
Lets say that you have an unusual shaped part that has an arm which extended beyond the boundary of your machine. I can well understand that you would
wish to know this before you starting your part program but even if you had the means of running around the outline of the part you will cause or
attempt to cause your machine to go outside its boundaries, that is crash it.
I have Mach setup to display the machine boundaries in addition to the part toolpath and can at a glance tell if part of the part program would attempt
to go outside the boundaries. Its usually a matter of shifting the material on the table, re zeroing to the new reference of the stock and confirm the toolpath
lies within the machine boundaries.
To display the boundaries Config/ToolPath check Machine Boundaries. The numerical values of the boundaries are the soft limit max and min on the
Config/Homing-Limits page.
Does this technique provide sufficient info for you?
Craig
if you want to go around the outline of your part to ensure that your material is well placed within the machining boundaries of your machine then its
likely to fail.
Lets say that you have an unusual shaped part that has an arm which extended beyond the boundary of your machine. I can well understand that you would
wish to know this before you starting your part program but even if you had the means of running around the outline of the part you will cause or
attempt to cause your machine to go outside its boundaries, that is crash it.
I have Mach setup to display the machine boundaries in addition to the part toolpath and can at a glance tell if part of the part program would attempt
to go outside the boundaries. Its usually a matter of shifting the material on the table, re zeroing to the new reference of the stock and confirm the toolpath
lies within the machine boundaries.
To display the boundaries Config/ToolPath check Machine Boundaries. The numerical values of the boundaries are the soft limit max and min on the
Config/Homing-Limits page.
Does this technique provide sufficient info for you?
Craig