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Messages - wshelley

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Hood, thank you for all your help! Your suggestion that it was metric vs inches jogged my memory. When I installed the new version, I walked through all the configs except the native units. Go figure, it was reset to mm when it was installed. Setting it back to inches solved the problem.

Thanks again!

Ward

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Oops, G20 is inches mode, G80 is canned cycle cancel. Gotta proof read my posts better ;-)

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Ok, the evaluation run makes sense. So here is a quick piece of test code. I used the same post to create this as the other code. The code specifies G80 (inches) so I'm still not sure what is happening.

(BEGIN PREDATOR NC HEADER)
(MACH_FILE=3AXVMILL.MCH)
(MTOOL T8 S1 D.0625 H1.995 DIAM_OFFSET 8 = .0313)
(SBOX X0. Y-1. Z-1. L1. W1. H1.)
(END PREDATOR NC HEADER)

%
O100
(PROGRAM NUMBER)
(PROGRAM NAME - ONE_INCH_SQUARE_TEST.NC)
(POST -  MACH 3 ROUTER)
(DATE - WED. 05/20/2009)
(TIME - 11:41AM)

N01 G20 G80 G90 G91.1
N02 G0 Z0.1

(JOB 1  CONTOUR)
(FEATURE PROFILE)

N03 T8
N04 S1500 M03
N05 G00 G90 X0. Y-1.
N06 Z.1
N07 G01 Z-.05 F10.
N08 X1.
N09 Y0.
N10 X0.
N11 Y-1.
N12 G00 Z.1
N13 M05
N14 G00 Z0.1
N15 M02

(END OF PROGRAM)

N16 M30
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No, no G21 in the code. I loaded some very simple g-code, just basic moves and those didn't effect the step size. I'll dig some more into the code. I wasn't aware that Mach3 evealuated the code before it was run?

Ward

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General Mach Discussion / Step increment wrong after loading g-code
« on: May 20, 2009, 01:41:04 PM »
Just upgraded to the current release version R3.042.020 and I run into an odd problem. When I first open Mach3 everything works normally. I can jog in increments of 0.001 and the machine moves in increments of 0.001, so far so good. If I then load previously run g-code and try to jog the machine moves 0.025 for every 0.001 requested. I also noticed on loading that the x, y, and z DRO showed different values after loading the file but clicking on any axis zeros all three (I had previously zeroed the axis prior to loading the file).

Any thoughts?

Ward

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach3 toolpath not consistant
« on: October 19, 2007, 11:54:18 AM »
Thanks, I'll give that a try tomorrow.

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General Mach Discussion / Mach3 toolpath not consistant
« on: October 19, 2007, 10:16:31 AM »
I am having an issue with pockets created in BobCam V21 and routing using Mach3. I get what appears to be arcs that are cut in the wrong direction. I've read several posts regarding the IJ mode. If I toggle between modes I will see the crop circles in one mode so obviously I use the other mode. I've attached a couple of pictures and I'm hoping for a few suggestions on things to try. In letter1.jpg you can see the odd path on the right top of the W. In letter2.jpg and letter4.jpg you see the same letter but the gcode was recreated in BobCam V21. Is there something I need to do in BobCad to make it work?

Thanks for any help and suggestions.

Ward

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