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« on: January 05, 2018, 06:55:27 PM »
All working!
The codes for all the moves in the shipped macros were for metric! I finally studied them closely and came to realize that the first axis (Z) was trying to drive down 5 inches after touching off and crashing. I don't have that kind of room on the 6040Z. After I picked myself up off the floor from smacking myself in the head, I got it sorted out. Man, it was kicking my rear end.
Anyway, I had to massage the AutoTool script as well to slow things down a bit. It was traveling like a bat out of Hades. Now smooth.
But there's more to the story. The plugin for the pod showed a pull-off of 5 for the X, Y and Z in the Homing Pulloff area near the bottom of the dialog box for the configuration of the pod plugin. I had no idea what the pull off was for. Time, distance, etc. but it is for distance.
Another point worth noting, even though I had set the units to Inch from the drop down menu, I discovered my warm-up code was extremely small in accordance with the foot print and table outline on screen. Going to the Settings tab I discovered in the bottom right hand corner that the units of metric was still selected. Once I set it to Inches and did a Regen of the toolpath, things looked much better.
I hope this helps someone in the future.
Been a long intriguing day in my inner sanctum.
Peace and quiet and lack of interruptions can be your friend when it comes to sorting out the obvious. Ha!