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General Mach Discussion / Re: Having a small problem with mach3
« on: November 20, 2008, 05:54:20 PM »
Sorry for the delay in followup. I appreciate your help. Anyhow I ran it again using suggested settings of cvangle to 35 and dist tolerance of .01 but still having issues. As you will see below the parts cut perfectly but it was choppy, feeds from 200IPM down to 25IPM at curves it didn't handle it how I would expect other than that it followed the toolpath perfectly.
I guess what I'm getting at is that I'm having a hard time finding a balance between acceptable constant velocity and necessary cv. I want it to go fast because the machine is designed to do so but the software skips the beat because the machine can't make those corners without either slowing down or cutting them. And the strange part of all of this is until now I have never had to play with CV settings, everything I have ever cut has been perfect; mach seems to always have compensated for corners and curves slowing down when necessary. Where am I going wrong with this? Thanks again!
I guess what I'm getting at is that I'm having a hard time finding a balance between acceptable constant velocity and necessary cv. I want it to go fast because the machine is designed to do so but the software skips the beat because the machine can't make those corners without either slowing down or cutting them. And the strange part of all of this is until now I have never had to play with CV settings, everything I have ever cut has been perfect; mach seems to always have compensated for corners and curves slowing down when necessary. Where am I going wrong with this? Thanks again!