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General Mach Discussion / Safe Z question

« on: February 13, 2020, 09:34:05 PM »

I *think* this is a Safe Z question.  Its probably covered somewhere here in the half-million posts but I'm in my 60's so time is precious.

I zero my machine,  Mach 3, Chines router.
I move the X and/or Y and lower the Z to zero it on the materiel surface.
I press the GOTO ZERO button, and the machine drags the tool accross my materiel without raising the Z accecc like it once did.
I have checked the box under "Safe Z"  but whatever I did 8 years ago doesnt work anymore. (I had to replace the hard drive and reinstall everything from scratch recently).

Is there another box to xheck that i'm not seeing?

I wasnt the machine to , as it once did, raise the tool 1" before moving X or Y.

Thanks for your help!

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LazyCam (Beta) / Noobie here, thanks in advance for the nice RTFM

« on: October 31, 2011, 09:40:59 PM »

For some reason, Lazycam keeps "blending" the Z axis with circle cutting in the X and Y.
I'm trying to make flat parts from 1/4" lexan, but lazycam insists on adding the Z axis the the circular interpolation.  Instead of circular cutouts, I'm getting sloped semicircles. Even after I set the depth of EVERY chain, it just ignores the settings.

I have reinstalled this thing more than once now.

I'm new. I've read what I can grasp of the "manual" for lazycam and I'm missing the part where it can't make flat parts.
Being a newbie, I have to assume there is some simple setting that I can't find or some vernacular I don't understand.

What is "lead in", btw?

Help?

OH... and one more thing.  I'm a bit dyslexic and it would help if someone had a FREE g-code reader/editor that printed various lines in different colors.  Have a look at http://www.cncezpro.com/g73m.cfm