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General Mach Discussion / Re: V CARVE TOOL PATH

« on: March 27, 2012, 06:01:20 AM »

looks like that did the trick i lowered velocity from 75 to 40 and accel from 4 to 1 kernal speed at 25000 and it looks good ran 5 times and was good everytime but now i am getting random miscuts only some parts starts out good then will cut thru some letters and then go back to cutting normal on same part.frustrating

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General Mach Discussion / Re: V CARVE TOOL PATH

« on: March 19, 2012, 01:03:30 PM »

skips in different places all the time this part has a lot of code with .001 or less move in both directions but it will run bigger parts no problem all the time but i will try adjusting accel and velocity

midden1

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General Mach Discussion / Re: V CARVE TOOL PATH

« on: March 19, 2012, 10:17:40 AM »

i finnally got caught on my prodjects
andi tried 35k kernal but was no help if i made the drawing 2 times larger it worked fine

midden1

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General Mach Discussion / Re: V CARVE TOOL PATH

« on: February 19, 2012, 09:13:48 AM »

i have not yet tried 35khz kernal but i will  and also try adjusting vol and accal now that you say mach3 will handle arcs
midden1

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General Mach Discussion / Re: V CARVE TOOL PATH

« on: February 18, 2012, 10:55:55 AM »

hood
i turned off the mpg no change as you thought but before i had adjusted the volocity i just thought i would
try some of my old vcarve programs and they work without any problem,the only diffence they were lot bigger
parts aprox 3inchx5inch the harley logo is about 1.2inch x .900inch i am thinking mach3 won't handle the smaller
arks what do you think.
bob

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General Mach Discussion / Re: V CARVE TOOL PATH

« on: February 17, 2012, 02:18:36 PM »

hood thanks for reply i will attach my xml file and the code i am using
i have i guy i am doing this for and it has been driving me crazy
thanks
bob

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General Mach Discussion / V CARVE TOOL PATH

« on: February 17, 2012, 12:30:44 PM »

hi
i have a k2cnc with gecko g540 running with mach3 2ghz cpu and 1 gig of memory

i am trying to v carve a harley davison emblem was programmed with bobcad looks good in graphics and look good on mach3 graphics but when i run on router the tool path looks
good and then it will totally go off course and cut letters away and will just end up with pocket it will repeat the same every time. I can just do regular 2d engraving with no problem.

any help would be very much appreciated

 :(bob

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General Mach Discussion / Re: cutter compensation not working

« on: April 01, 2011, 07:29:14 PM »

jeff

i just tried and it worked fine
i guess i just had d32 stuck in my head from the fanuc controls
at work .

thanks very much for response

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General Mach Discussion / cutter compensation not working

« on: April 01, 2011, 12:33:53 PM »

having trouble with mach3 with cutter comp taking affect,i am using tool 1 with cutter radius in tool table (R.187 IN TOOL DIAMETER)
on the main screen shows tool 1 and shows cutter radius but when running program tool goes to center line of cutter
and does not compensate for tool radius.

example program milling inside pocket

G17 G20 G40 G80 G90
T1M6(.375 endmill)
G0 G90 G54 X2.0 Y2.0 G43 H1 Z-1.0 S3000 M3
Z.1
G1 Z-1.25 F30.
G42 D31 Y2.5
X2.5
Y1.5
X1.5
Y2.5
X2.3
G40 Y2.0
G0 Z1.0
G53 Z0
M30

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General Mach Discussion / Re: X AXIS STOPS APROX .500 SHORT OF HOME SWITCH

« on: March 23, 2011, 02:12:03 PM »

i tried that and it did not go to zero i ended up moving wire from input 1 to input 4 on mach3 breakout board  and it now works ok.
thanks for input