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Mach Discussion => General Mach Discussion => Topic started by: pzzamakr1980 on February 01, 2007, 12:01:29 AM
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I am new to this whole thing so please bear with me. I have finished setting up my sieg x3 with the cncfusion kit and all the other necessary hardware with the exception of limit and home switches. I am now trying to use the mill to machine the mounts for the switches. To home the machine temporarily i wired up some switches and press them when the machine reaches its home travel. It works okay because i will then press the soft limit switch in Mach and the mill wont go past the soft home. The problem I am running into is this. I designed the part in Mastercam, Its very basic and very small, roughly 2*2 inches. I am using the default mill/generic mill for my machine type. When I import the nc file into Mach i get a giant red box with red lines leading to the part. The part will not go onto my machine table in the toolpath view in Mach regardless of how I position the table and click regen toolpath. When I try to run the program the machine will soft home itself and then it will ask for the tool change, i click continue cycle (since i wanted to demo it first on the machine i just have a pen mounted), and next it immediately says "softlimits switch thrown" or something to that effect. I am including the file so if i am doing something wrong in that yall can look at it and tell me.
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Is your part drawn in Mastercam using the world coordinate zero, or is it possibly drawn far away from the world X Y zero that the mill can't travel that far and Mach goes into out of limits?
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Hi, pzzamakr
Your G-code had a G92 x10 y10 y10 which I put a note on, Remarked it out about 5 lines down.
It runs hear I don't hane your tool data.
Dry run it,
It needs more editing I would think.
Hope this Helps, Chip