Hello there,

I am quite new to all this cnc , mach3 lazycam stuff, but slowly I am getting there.

For testing my homebuild cnc router I made in rhinoceros 15 vertical lines and 15 horizontal lines. Exported to dxf and opened it in lazycam.
lazycam show these lines perfectly.
When I post them in Gcode and open it in Mach3 only the horizontal lines are displayed. When I move some vertical "chains" more up and then post, these vertical lines show up, but not all of them and than I am missing some horizontal lines again :-/

The same when I make a lot of objects like cirkels, squares , lines etc not all of them are posted in gcode, but are shown in lazycam as seperate chains.

Here some pictures:
The lines in Rhinoceros:

Saved as dxf file
opened in lazycam (mill):


All lookes fine, pressed the "post gcode"button"

Only 9 lines are displayed 

here the g-code:

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N1 (File Name = 200 on Sunday, March 01, 2009)
N2 (Default Mill Post)
N3  G91.1
N4 G0  Z1.0000
N5 M3
N6  X150.0000  Y1.0000
N7  Z0.1000
N8 G1  Z0.0000  F60.00
N9  X0.0000   
N10 G0  Z1.0000
N11  X150.0000  Y5.0000
N12  Z0.1000
N13 G1  Z0.0000 
N14  X0.0000   
N15 G0  Z1.0000
N16  X150.0000  Y9.0000
N17  Z0.1000
N18 G1  Z0.0000 
N19  X0.0000   
N20 G0  Z1.0000
N21  X150.0000  Y13.0000
N22  Z0.1000
N23 G1  Z0.0000 
N24  X0.0000   
N25 G0  Z1.0000
N26  X150.0000  Y17.0000
N27  Z0.1000
N28 G1  Z0.0000 
N29  X0.0000   
N30 G0  Z1.0000
N31  X150.0000  Y21.0000
N32  Z0.1000
N33 G1  Z0.0000 
N34  X0.0000   
N35 G0  Z1.0000
N36  X150.0000  Y25.0000
N37  Z0.1000
N38 G1  Z0.0000 
N39  X0.0000   
N40 G0  Z1.0000
N41  X150.0000  Y29.0000
N42  Z0.1000
N43 G1  Z0.0000 
N44  X0.0000   
N45 G0  Z1.0000
N46  X150.0000  Y33.0000
N47  Z0.1000
N48 G1  Z0.0000 
N49  X0.0000   
N50 G0  Z1.0000

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What am I doiing wrong 

many thanks,
cor

Hi, Cor

Post your dxf, Is you LazyCam a licensed Pro version, There's a 50 line limit with offsets and such.

Chip

Hello Chip,

attached the dxf file, maybe you can take a look at it.

The 50 lines would allready be the answer I think, I thought it was 500 lines.

Best regards,
Cor

Hi, Cor

It works hear with a lic.version or without.

Chip

hey,

I am a step further right now :-).... but not far enough :-/

I have loaded your tap file in mach3 and it showed all lines. I have opened both my tap file and your tap file (in notepad), and mine stops at line 250 (probably drawing  line #9) and yours continue to line 635 to do the other lines.

So , I now know it is not mach3 whioch is playing up, but something in lazycam.

What I did is:
loaded this dxf file and pressed the "post code" button, that's all. Maybe lazycam needs some more finetuning? , but where?, not many option to change?

I upload my tap file as well, so you can see the difference.

Where can I start looking in lazycam where the "error" is?

I really do appriciate your help.

regards,
cor

Chip, i missed one of our sentences in one of your post :-/

I do have a unregistered version of lazycam, is that the reason why it just post the 50 lines (which is only 9 lines drawed)?

thanks for the help .

Cor

Hi, Cor

It posts hear with my license removed just fine, What ver are you using, It's under help, about, I've tried ver, 3.00.2 & 3.00.

Post your LazyCam.xml, It's in C:\Mach3\ folder, Make a copy of it and Rename it, CorLazyCam.xml

Some pic's of setup pages.

Chip

hey chip,

No joy here:

I have checked both versions as well, for now i have version 3.0.0.2


Here the screenshots of the setup and attached the xml file......... what's wrong 



It still only posts 50 lines which is 9 lines of the drawing.

thanks,
Cor

Hi, Cor

I finally figured out the problem your having, I think, Your running LazyCam from it's own Sub. Dir./Folder.

You need to copy LazyCam.exe and probably All it's associated files into your C:\Mach3 folder for it to work properly.

There's a note on this some where in the past post's.

Chip

Hi chip,

I uninstalled the complete mach3 and lazycam, and made sure all was installed in c:/mach3 uncluding lazycam. Unfortunately it stilll does the same.
I set the increments at "1" to see how many lines it spits out and it is 50 with code and than 21 with g42 ("start cutting radius compensations" ??)

Still no clue why it doesn't wanna post all my horizontal and vertical lines :-(

Below the code from my last try

cheers,
a sad Cor
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N1 (File Name = 200 on Tuesday, March 03, 2009)
N2 (Default Mill Post)
N3  G91.1
N4 G0  Z13.0000
N5 M3
N6  X150.0000  Y1.0000
N7 G1  Z-1.0000  F60.00
N8 G42
N9  X0.0000   
N10 G0  Z13.0000
N11  X150.0000  Y5.0000
N12 G1  Z-1.0000 
N13 G42
N14  X0.0000   
N15 G0  Z13.0000
N16  X150.0000  Y9.0000
N17 G1  Z-1.0000 
N18 G42
N19  X0.0000   
N20 G0  Z13.0000
N21  X150.0000  Y13.0000
N22 G1  Z-1.0000 
N23 G42
N24  X0.0000   
N25 G0  Z13.0000
N26  X150.0000  Y17.0000
N27 G1  Z-1.0000 
N28 G42
N29  X0.0000   
N30 G0  Z13.0000
N31  X150.0000  Y21.0000
N32 G1  Z-1.0000 
N33 G42
N34  X0.0000   
N35 G0  Z13.0000
N36  X150.0000  Y25.0000
N37 G1  Z-1.0000 
N38 G42
N39  X0.0000   
N40 G0  Z13.0000
N41  X150.0000  Y29.0000
N42 G1  Z-1.0000 
N43 G42
N44  X0.0000   
N45 G0  Z13.0000
N46  X150.0000  Y33.0000
N47 G1  Z-1.0000 
N48 G42
N49  X0.0000   
N50 G0  Z13.0000
N51 G42
N52 G42
N53 G42
N54 G42
N55 G42
N56 G42
N57 G42
N58 G42
N59 G42
N60 G42
N61 G42
N62 G42
N63 G42
N64 G42
N65 G42
N66 G42
N67 G42
N68 G42
N69 G42
N70 G42
N71 G42

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