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Mach Discussion => General Mach Discussion => Topic started by: celticbern on January 25, 2007, 06:04:17 AM

Title: Can I turn Off Cutter COmp on Mach 3 Side?
Post by: celticbern on January 25, 2007, 06:04:17 AM

Hello,

I am having problems with the Cutter Comp on my Celtic Wine Racks....

I set it to "Comp Left" on the BobCad v20 program side and create the G-code. At some point when I am running it on my CNC machine the cutter comp seems to lose where it is going.

I know the basics only....Can I turn off the cutter comp somewhere in the "Config menu" on Mach 3 ???

thanks
bernie
http://www.carvingceltic.com

Title: Re: Can I turn Off Cutter COmp on Mach 3 Side?
Post by: Graham Waterworth on January 25, 2007, 06:18:23 AM

Cutter comp. is only active if you have a G41 or G42 in your program.

Graham.

Title: Re: Can I turn Off Cutter COmp on Mach 3 Side?
Post by: celticbern on January 25, 2007, 07:12:01 AM

I have the G41 (comp left) in the G-Code....

it still runs off

Title: Re: Can I turn Off Cutter COmp on Mach 3 Side?
Post by: dfurlano on January 25, 2007, 09:13:18 AM

I had the same problem with version 2 so I reverted back to 1.9 and cutter comp works fine.

http://www.machsupport.com/forum/index.php?topic=2258.0

Title: Re: Can I turn Off Cutter COmp on Mach 3 Side?
Post by: Immo on January 25, 2007, 12:47:27 PM

If you don't want to run the program with cutter comp simply use the diamerter "Zero" in the tool table for your tool.

Immo

Title: Re: Can I turn Off Cutter COmp on Mach 3 Side?
Post by: ger21 on January 25, 2007, 10:09:08 PM

Quote from: celticbern on January 25, 2007, 07:12:01 AM

I have the G41 (comp left) in the G-Code....

it still runs off

Can you post the code?

If you don't want to use the comp, you'll need to not use it in BobCAD.