Hi everybody, I've been trying to get cutter radius compensation working, because I'm getting a little bit tired of adjusting my CAD drawings for the radius of my cutters, so that the parts come out the size they are supposed to! I've read the appropriate parts of the manual, and a few other online resources, but it still isn't behaving. Obviously I'm not understanding something.
My test program cuts a 1" square with its lower lefthand corner at 0,0. It doesn't get much simpler than that! Here's the gcode that I'm using: G00 X1.0000 Y1.0000 Z.10 F20 G01 Z0.047 Y2.0000 X2.0000 Y1.0000 X1.0000 G00 Z1.0 M30 That code works, no problem at all. Then I added the following to the top of the file: M6 T1 G41 D1 My tool table contains one entry, a 0.125" diameter endmill. Length is zero. I expected the tool to follow a contour 0.0625" away from the outline of the square, and instead I get "concave corner with cutter radius compensation" when I reload the file. Same thing if I try G42 instead. Could somebody give me a clue, please? thanks, Patrick ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
