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General Mach Discussion / Re: Cutter Compensation

« on: October 15, 2008, 10:41:31 AM »

There are some bugs that Brian is going to start working on pretty soon. Probably a good idea to send him examples of any problems your having so he can fix all the problems with comp.

I will see if I can compile a list of examples and post them.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Cutter Compensation

« on: October 15, 2008, 10:36:37 AM »

Basically I am cutting large circles out of plate with a leadin with two linear moves at 45 degrees tangent. These circles may be oriented at odd angles to provide better utilisation of material. When I stop the program I normally start it back at the beginning of a complete coordinated block of code. I normally don't try and use the "run from here" and edit the code and reload it. Most other controllers that i have used that require a preparation move for the cutter compensation to be initiated need only a move slightly longer than the offset value.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Cutter Compensation

« on: October 15, 2008, 10:12:39 AM »

Maybe try putting a G40 in the "all resets" line in general config?

Mark

Thank You all for your replies
I would like to try putting a G40 in the "all resets" but am not sure what or where "all resets" is?
Do you mean putting a G40 function on the stop and reset button?
Or is there somewhere else that I don't know of?

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General Mach Discussion / Cutter Compensation

« on: October 14, 2008, 02:31:40 PM »

Profiling Burning table.
I am still having trouble with cutter compensation.
Some times if I stop a program and restart it it will just make a strait line with a little circle at the end and then stop.
It will do this even if I put a G40 in the head of a program? If I run a G40 in MDI and then reload the G code program. It will run fine.
It seems that the cutter comp in Mach is buggy as hell. Is there any light at the end of the tunnel for cutter comp in Mach or is it dead in the water?     

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G-Code, CAD, and CAM discussions / Re: cutter comp question

« on: September 08, 2008, 12:07:05 PM »

Have you tried running your code with the X & Y figures in the G02 line, Mach has been known to misbehave if they are missing.

G03X113.8497Y11.0624R0.75
G02 X? Y? I-0.5447J6.2262
G03X113.6225Y10.7915R0.25

Graham

Tryed it and still no go.

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G-Code, CAD, and CAM discussions / Re: cutter comp question

« on: September 08, 2008, 11:56:08 AM »

The mixed R arcs and IJ arcs is how the cam outputs the code.
I dont know how this could cause it to select the last arc before the third?
But one thing is if you remove the last arc it will work fine.
For the time I am using a linear move as the lead out.

This is an example program.


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(SHEET 120.000 X 60.000)
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(PART)
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G-Code, CAD, and CAM discussions / Re: cutter comp question

« on: September 08, 2008, 08:12:12 AM »

This is what it looks like

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G-Code, CAD, and CAM discussions / Re: cutter comp question

« on: September 08, 2008, 08:10:19 AM »

If you're not using the latest version, you might want to try it, as there have been a few cutter comp fixes in the past. If you are using the latest version, there is still apparently a bug in comp, although I haven't seen it myself yet.. It's slated to be fixed in the near future, after a few more important bug fixes.

Well I have just gave 3.042 a try and get pretty much the same result

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Feature Requests / Mach3 Embedded

« on: September 07, 2008, 01:00:41 PM »

Would be great to be able to build a dedicated hardware platform to run mach and use the PC just to monitor it. 

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Feature Requests / Quad encoder Inputs for full closed loop operation

« on: September 07, 2008, 12:52:42 PM »

It would be nice if it was possible to close the mach to servo drive loop.