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General Mach Discussion / Trouble with Z-axis
« on: July 05, 2010, 09:13:54 PM »
Hi All,

I am having trouble with my Z-axis. I import the g-code from Visual Mill and the X and Y are milling correctly. I have been jogging the machine and setting the DRO's to zero at the surface of the stock. When I go to run the job, the machine moves above the surface and starts cutting. In display mode, the mill seems to be following the surface correctly. I do notice that the table limits in display mode are below the part I am trying to surface mill. When I change the Z in the config homing/limits so the stock is within the machine bed, it still tries to go up and mill above the surface. Any help would be much appreciated!!

Thanks,
Kory

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General Mach Discussion / GCODE Partial Load
« on: July 04, 2010, 05:50:07 PM »
Hi All,
I'm new to the board - and pretty new to CNC. I have managed to get some 2d profile cuts to work, but I'm running into some problems with 3d parallel finishing. I'm trying to cut some foam for a mold. I use 3ds max, Rhino then Visual Mill 5 and finally Mach3. My machine is a small 16" x 32" CNC Shark. I followed the video tutorials (thanks for these!) and think I loaded everything correctly, but not sure. The machine jogs and I set my units to inches.
The problem I am having is with my GCode not loading correctly. It seems to load everything fine, but in the table display, it only shows a partial job. When I open up the editor, the code seems to be complete and ok, but when I run the job, it stops at line 500, exactly. It stops, then shows that line (X149.0962 Z0.0000) over and over again. Any idea why this is happening? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
I have attached the txt file, just in case.
Thanks,
Kory

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