Hello, guys! I have been running my waterjet cutting machine with EMC for a while now (currently that is version 2.4.3.1) and I have gathered few questions about the way, how EMC interprets the g-code.
The main issue is that sometimes I receive this error message: "Arc move in concave corner cannot be reached by the tool without gouging" It also indicates the number of the line in the g-code, which is near the one, causing error. So I found that in the following piece of code the G3 move was the problem: G1 X+115.175 Y+245.013 G3 X+118.786 Y+245.339 I+1.484 J+3.720 G1 X+120.236 Y+246.394 I have G41/G42 tool diameter compensation commands included as well as there is M6 T1 command in the beginning of the file and in the tool table I have saved the size of the water jet as a tool number one, so that EMC compensates the kerf size. The confusion is caused by the fact that saved diameter is 1.1 mm and in the code above we can see that radius of the G3 move is larger than half of the tool's diameter, which has to be offsetted. I just received also this error message: "Straight feed in concave corner cannot be reached by the tool without gouging" It indicated that the error is around line 24, so here is the part of the code: G1 X+167.031 Y+46.741 G1 X+167.643 Y+46.983 G1 X+168.223 Y+47.330 G1 X+168.364 Y+47.433 G1 X+168.364 Y+23.726 <--line24 G1 X+147.289 Y+23.726 G1 X+147.289 Y+54.982 The code consists of very small G1 moves. Unfortunately the CAD drawing consisted almost only of splines, which are not very welcome by my CAM application, so it converted the splines in very small straight segments. That is why that file consists of 16344 lines, so I do not see an option of manual correction of the code. Can anyone explain, what is that EMC does not like about the g-code and what can I do to correct it? Thank You in advance! Viesturs ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Make an app they can't live without Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge http://p.sf.net/sfu/RIM-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
