On Thursday 22 December 2016 14:01:04 Jim Craig wrote: > I was running a program last night on my milling machine. I was > cutting air at the time and saw something that I did not like. I hit > the stop button in gmoccapy and the program stopped but then the tool > plunged downward in the z direction. I found this very odd. I took a > look at the tool offset and it was saying 0.000 in. Once again very > odd. I played around with it for a little bit and found that when I > hit stop then the tool length offset would be removed. Then this > caused the machine to plunge for some reason. > > Luckily it did no damage since I was far enough above the part to not > cause a crash. > > I have tried to reproduce this same behavior in a sim configuration in > 2.7.8 but I cannot 100%. If you change the G49 G43 option the tool > will show as moving on the screen but it is moving instantly as the > change is being made. No real plunge occurring, or is it? Was this a > glitch in 2.7.4? If not what could cause this behavior? > > Thanks, > > Jim > > I hit that one too Jim, and crushed some tooling, with a 1/4 carbide end mill simply exploding and of course the part was damaged but but beyond use, but it was some months, 6+ IIRC ago. I reported it and that was fixed with an update the next day.
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