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General Mach Discussion / Text / engraving problem.
« on: July 02, 2017, 04:13:28 AM »
Hi all
I'm Mike Grant from Darwin Australia. Im a builder that did a metal machining apprenticeship later in life. About two years ago I built a cnc milling machine and have not had a great number of issues getting it going. I mainly make 'Pugs' for carbon fibre moulding.
My problem is this - I generate the Gcode for the text in Bobcat - all the tool paths work perfectly in the simulator. I save it as an .nc. I open it in Mach 3 and all is good except on some letters about 3/4 the way down the run it will move across to the other side of the run and then return up leaving all the letters with straight ends (ie. capital E ) with thin ends on the arms. I have changed lots of things in Bobcat and all is good in the simulator but it still happens in Mach3.
Any ideas? Thanks all in advance.
PS I'm just wanting to engrave some termination tags for an electrical board.
I'm Mike Grant from Darwin Australia. Im a builder that did a metal machining apprenticeship later in life. About two years ago I built a cnc milling machine and have not had a great number of issues getting it going. I mainly make 'Pugs' for carbon fibre moulding.
My problem is this - I generate the Gcode for the text in Bobcat - all the tool paths work perfectly in the simulator. I save it as an .nc. I open it in Mach 3 and all is good except on some letters about 3/4 the way down the run it will move across to the other side of the run and then return up leaving all the letters with straight ends (ie. capital E ) with thin ends on the arms. I have changed lots of things in Bobcat and all is good in the simulator but it still happens in Mach3.
Any ideas? Thanks all in advance.
PS I'm just wanting to engrave some termination tags for an electrical board.