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Mach Discussion => General Mach Discussion => Topic started by: cncbobuk on January 25, 2018, 08:48:23 AM
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Any ideas what I'm doing wrong here? I'm trying to cut a pocket into Plywood, the pocket is 12mm wide and 40mm long with corners radiused at 3.1mm. I'm using a 6mm dia cutter but only one of the corners is actually cut completely, it's like the cutter is anticipating the corner and moving earlier. The G Code was compiled using Sheetcam and looks perfect in simulation so fairly sure the problem is not here but is with Mach 3. Also I'm sure I've done this successfully before. Any ideas? I'm stumped.
Picture here https://www.dropbox.com/s/87xllsubd2i9yo3/2018-01-25%2013.55.15.jpg?dl=0
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My first guess would be that your acceleration settings are too low for the speed travelled.
If this is a new issue then something must have changed - corner rounding is nearly always due to poor acceleration/speed settings
Try going into exact-stop mode instead of constant velocity (CV) mode.
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Hi Dave, thanks for that, you are of course right I remember now having this problem before. I'm always a bit reluctant to set acceleration too high as I always think this is a recipe for losing steps however setting "Exact stop" has cured the issue for now. You prompt is much appreciated. I will have a play with acceleration and see what happens. Cheers,
Bob.
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Try setting "Stop CV on Angles<" to 89 in General Config.
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Good you got going:)
Sound like you might benefit from spending some time and doing a tune-up - if the speed is ok, just increase acceleration in steps until it sounds bad, jerks or loses steps then back off maybe 10-15% and test it.