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Third party software and hardware support forums. / problems with cutting text, machine not following toolpath. fusion360-pmdx-mach4
« on: December 03, 2020, 10:41:36 PM »
So I am using fusion 360 for cad and cam and mach4 and a pmdx 424 control board on a router table. I have a custom font downloaded and have used explode text and the extrude function to make a shallow pocket and used 3d adaptive clearing to generate a flat shallow cutout of the text. The cam file simulates perfectly in fusion.
I haven't used this router table in almost a year so I had some difficulty getting it set back up but once I did I tried to cut this file and have had nothing but problems. I had to change all my pulse/step settings to get correct jog distances and I fought with the old inch/mm jog bug which prompted me to update to the current version of mach 4. I had to mess with the units for about an hour to get the machine to jog 1mm when set to metric instead of 1 inch. After all this I made a test cut of a simple 10mm circular pocket which cut perfectly and is 10mm as intended however when I try to cut this text file it makes a mess of it even though it shows up nicely in the preview window the machine doesn't follow the green toolpath correctly. I have attached a couple pictures. the one of the cut preview shows how the white cutpath did not line up with or follow the green projected path. I am totally stumped.
I haven't used this router table in almost a year so I had some difficulty getting it set back up but once I did I tried to cut this file and have had nothing but problems. I had to change all my pulse/step settings to get correct jog distances and I fought with the old inch/mm jog bug which prompted me to update to the current version of mach 4. I had to mess with the units for about an hour to get the machine to jog 1mm when set to metric instead of 1 inch. After all this I made a test cut of a simple 10mm circular pocket which cut perfectly and is 10mm as intended however when I try to cut this text file it makes a mess of it even though it shows up nicely in the preview window the machine doesn't follow the green toolpath correctly. I have attached a couple pictures. the one of the cut preview shows how the white cutpath did not line up with or follow the green projected path. I am totally stumped.