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General Mach Discussion / Tool Offset

« on: May 09, 2008, 09:05:45 AM »

I tried to cut my first part last night and found that the center of the tool is actually following the line of a circle inside another chain. The outside chain seems to be correct but the inside chain (circle) is too big (the diameter of the tool too big - 1/4"). It doesn't matter if you leave the circle as an outside chain or re layer it to an inside chain in Lcam, it still runs the same path. Shouldn't the tool diameter in Lcam compensate for this when posting the code? Is the Pro version of Lcam the only way to correct this problem by using offsets?

If Lcam asks for tool diameter in the layers tab, is it still necessary to select the same tool in the Mach tool window? I tried it both ways and got the same results.

I'm also getting a tool change command in my G code and I can't remember how I got around this. I'm sure I'm doing something out of order in Lcam but can't figure out what it is.

Thanks for your help.

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General Mach Discussion / limit on g code of 49 lines?

« on: April 09, 2008, 10:35:00 PM »

Hey all. I'm in the process of finishing my first router and I have been playing around with Mach 3 and Lazy Cam. So far after trying many options that are available I think that Mach 3 is by far the easiest to use. At least for a newbie like me.

I tried to search for the answer to my question but couldn't find it. I can only post 49 lines of code in Mach 3. Is that normal before licensing or am I doing something wrong? I was under the impression that there was a 500 line limit. Kind of hard to evaluate it with only 49 lines available

I tried several of my drawings but all only result in 49 lines of code (full drawing in Lazy Cam though).

Thanks so much for your help.

Ryan