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Mach Discussion => Mach4 General Discussion => Topic started by: kraath@gmail.com on June 13, 2022, 12:52:19 PM

Title: Unexpected tool path
Post by: kraath@gmail.com on June 13, 2022, 12:52:19 PM

Hi

Ok, I'm experiencing some strange tool path results.

using Autodesk Invento, I drew a test wing profile section and generated the tool path using the Autodesk CAM plugin. The toolpath can be viewed in the editor and looks like I would expect.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Ihvrrio3QbMIX6UTSGOqkDgJKWmvFDEn/view?usp=sharing (https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Ihvrrio3QbMIX6UTSGOqkDgJKWmvFDEn/view?usp=sharing)

However, when I copy the file to my CNC machine and open the file in Mach4 the toolpath looks somewhat different.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gjnzucI-WIYFCH7ps0HbM3Bs0fTcTGas/view?usp=sharing (https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gjnzucI-WIYFCH7ps0HbM3Bs0fTcTGas/view?usp=sharing)

I have no idea where these circles come from and what they are for. I need to delete these but don't really want to scroll through 20add thousand lines to find and delete the.

Any ideas???

Title: Re: Unexpected tool path
Post by: joeaverage on June 13, 2022, 04:15:57 PM

Hi,
try using Radius Arc option in the post processor.

Craig

Title: Re: Unexpected tool path
Post by: kraath@gmail.com on June 14, 2022, 02:17:45 AM

I resolved the issue, was my own doing

I did not select Mach as the destination system that will use the code. Once I defined that in the post-processor it all looked a lot better.

Kobus