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General Mach Discussion / Playing with Mach3 demo newbie CNC
« on: May 10, 2014, 11:14:35 AM »
Hello all. I am newbie to CNC playing with Mach3 demo for now.
I am just fooling around trying to cut circles to better get a grasp of things, self learning.
I am using Solidworks/Solidcam and have created GCode to create a circle on a piece of stock.
When I load Mach3 everything is Zero and it shows the coord to be bottom left of the table.
When I load the gcode I am trying to set the starting point in the center of the piece as I indicated in Solidcam but it doesnt go there after loading the file.
Im not sure if this is a post processor issue or config of mach3 that I need to do ? I tried to move to that point on the work piece as best as I can (its hard to tell from the table view if its exactly centered) but when I Zero the DRO's and regen tool path it will go a totally different spot than I want to set it at.
Thanks.
I am just fooling around trying to cut circles to better get a grasp of things, self learning.
I am using Solidworks/Solidcam and have created GCode to create a circle on a piece of stock.
When I load Mach3 everything is Zero and it shows the coord to be bottom left of the table.
When I load the gcode I am trying to set the starting point in the center of the piece as I indicated in Solidcam but it doesnt go there after loading the file.
Im not sure if this is a post processor issue or config of mach3 that I need to do ? I tried to move to that point on the work piece as best as I can (its hard to tell from the table view if its exactly centered) but when I Zero the DRO's and regen tool path it will go a totally different spot than I want to set it at.
Thanks.