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Title: Rectangle Pocket & Mill Rectangle
Post by: TDAY on August 30, 2013, 11:07:19 AM

Hello Ron,
 I tried doing a Rectangle Pocket .......
2.5" long by .5" wide using a .375" tool, but i got a pop up window while in the Pocket config window that states "Width must be larger than tool times 2."

So i tried a Mill Rectangle and the tool path shows lead in and out going beyond the width of rectangle.Look at screen shot.

Is this on the list or?

Thanks,
Troy

Title: Re: Rectangle Pocket & Mill Rectangle
Post by: Ron Ginger on August 30, 2013, 11:16:04 AM

Are you sure it will cut outside the box? remember what you see in the toolpath is the center line of the tool path

Put up a job file and I will make some tests.

Title: Re: Rectangle Pocket & Mill Rectangle
Post by: TDAY on August 30, 2013, 11:30:16 AM

If i increase the width of pocket, then lead in and out appear inside of toolpath. Attached is job file. Ill give it a run on the mill and see what happens.

Troy

Title: Re: Rectangle Pocket & Mill Rectangle
Post by: TDAY on August 30, 2013, 11:50:30 AM

Gave the Rectangle Gcode a try on the mill and the lead in & out starts outside of toolpath when trying to do an inside cut.

Troy

Title: Re: Rectangle Pocket & Mill Rectangle
Post by: TDAY on September 02, 2013, 07:48:10 AM

So any reason why the cut starts outside of box?

Troy

Title: Re: Rectangle Pocket & Mill Rectangle
Post by: Ron Ginger on September 02, 2013, 10:13:49 AM

It certainly was not planned to do that. I think I will just have to change the validate code to not allow rectangles that are to small for the code we use. Something will be done in the next release.

Title: Re: Rectangle Pocket & Mill Rectangle
Post by: TDAY on September 02, 2013, 10:28:35 AM

Ok. Sounds good.

Just for thought.... do i understand correctly, the way NFS Mill and NFS addon generate Gcode is different? Asking because i can do a .500" wide pocket with a .375" dia endmill with no errors.

Thanks,
Troy

Title: Re: Rectangle Pocket & Mill Rectangle
Post by: Ron Ginger on September 02, 2013, 11:10:31 AM

Yes, NFS Mill is a total new program. It is done in C++, the Addons were done in VB. We changed the whole process of generating code so nothing of the old VB code was included.

I will look at the old code to see if it helps improve the new.