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General Mach Discussion / Scary depth
« on: August 03, 2007, 02:21:06 AM »
Hi guys,
Hope that someone can help me. I have been having great difficulty getting true depth readings since beginning to use Mach 3.
For example when I do a carving and the depth is set to .15mm it will still cut down to more than a mm.
My latest problem really has me worried in that I am trying to cut some pockets for business cards . I used vcarve pro to do the very basic design and then loaded it into Mach 3.
I set the depth of cut to 2mm because the timber I am cutting is pretty hard.
When I start the cut the router moves to the correct X,Y position to begin and then plunges down to anywhere between 6-10 mm.
I have had a look at the offsets screen and even changing values there makes no difference. There was a thread about something similar here a while back but I can't find it now. I presume that I am having some problems with either the tool or job offsets but my poor little mind is becoming swamped. Hope someone can give me a bit of a hand.
Thanks in Advance.
Roly
Batlow NSW
Hope that someone can help me. I have been having great difficulty getting true depth readings since beginning to use Mach 3.
For example when I do a carving and the depth is set to .15mm it will still cut down to more than a mm.
My latest problem really has me worried in that I am trying to cut some pockets for business cards . I used vcarve pro to do the very basic design and then loaded it into Mach 3.
I set the depth of cut to 2mm because the timber I am cutting is pretty hard.
When I start the cut the router moves to the correct X,Y position to begin and then plunges down to anywhere between 6-10 mm.
I have had a look at the offsets screen and even changing values there makes no difference. There was a thread about something similar here a while back but I can't find it now. I presume that I am having some problems with either the tool or job offsets but my poor little mind is becoming swamped. Hope someone can give me a bit of a hand.
Thanks in Advance.
Roly
Batlow NSW