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General Mach Discussion / newbee, steps per stay the same but .125 now = 3.3125
« on: October 01, 2010, 12:52:40 AM »
I have a fine line automation CNC Machine That I built I have set it up two times. The first times when I measured with a steel rule and used the Settings/set steps per unit I got it close and was able to air carve the road runner.
I then made a dust hood with cut2d and that worked. I then tried my hand with the tutorials for cut2d and made a sign. simple one with year 1982 and that was also close.
I saw the tutorials on zeroing with a PC board and clip and got that to work.
I then worked on tweaking the rollers and taking up some slop I worked with the dial indicator and was able to get real accurate, it surprised me how accurate this thing is.
Then I loaded in the same file from cut2d and everything went to the dumper. When I moved the z axis with the MDI .125. The others where also off. If I restart the mach3 program it was back to where it should be.
Am I saving the g-code with the correct Post Processor?
Mach2/3 Arcs(*.txt)
I did read something about that but I an using (I think) everything the same as before.
Anyone have a clue?
JR
I then made a dust hood with cut2d and that worked. I then tried my hand with the tutorials for cut2d and made a sign. simple one with year 1982 and that was also close.
I saw the tutorials on zeroing with a PC board and clip and got that to work.
I then worked on tweaking the rollers and taking up some slop I worked with the dial indicator and was able to get real accurate, it surprised me how accurate this thing is.
Then I loaded in the same file from cut2d and everything went to the dumper. When I moved the z axis with the MDI .125. The others where also off. If I restart the mach3 program it was back to where it should be.
Am I saving the g-code with the correct Post Processor?
Mach2/3 Arcs(*.txt)
I did read something about that but I an using (I think) everything the same as before.
Anyone have a clue?
JR