Re: [Emc-users] Trouble with arc error

2022-02-07 Thread Andy Howell
On 2/7/22 20:49, andrew beck wrote: well for what it is worth. i have used radius values for the last 2 years on my mill and it has been pretty good. my mill is a full on VMC, its taiwinese thing chevalier 2040 similar to a haas VF3 and sat most of its life with a dead control so the bed

Re: [Emc-users] Trouble with arc error

2022-02-07 Thread Andy Howell
On 2/7/22 18:43, andy pugh wrote: On Tue, 8 Feb 2022 at 00:30, Andy Howell wrote: What I still don't understand is how it got set. We don't use the tool table. We manually touching off the Z. It's easy to touch-off the wrong dimension. Perhaps someone, at some point, jogged in Y just

Re: [Emc-users] Trouble with arc error

2022-02-07 Thread andrew beck
well for what it is worth. i have used radius values for the last 2 years on my mill and it has been pretty good. my mill is a full on VMC, its taiwinese thing chevalier 2040 similar to a haas VF3 and sat most of its life with a dead control so the bed ways are like new. (also have the linear

Re: [Emc-users] Trouble with arc error

2022-02-07 Thread dave engvall
Hi, I've read the assertion many times that ijk is better than radius and always assumed it to be correct; but by how much. Few of us run machines and are 'new' tigjht ;-) Maybe  I've not looked in the right place(s) for an analysis or for demonstrated interp of circles with some kind of error

Re: [Emc-users] Trouble with arc error

2022-02-07 Thread andy pugh
On Tue, 8 Feb 2022 at 00:30, Andy Howell wrote: > What I still don't understand is how it got set. We don't use the tool > table. We manually touching off the Z. It's easy to touch-off the wrong dimension. Perhaps someone, at some point, jogged in Y just before touching-off. That sets Y as

Re: [Emc-users] Trouble with arc error

2022-02-07 Thread Andy Howell
On 2/7/22 14:44, Stuart Stevenson wrote: Something is fishy between the Y values. You have Y4. in the first list and Y0. in the full listing. Yeah, that was really odd. Turned out to be the tool table had a Y-4.0 offset in it. On Mon, Feb 7, 2022 at 2:39 PM Stuart Stevenson wrote:

Re: [Emc-users] Trouble with arc error

2022-02-07 Thread Andy Howell
On 2/7/22 15:01, andrew beck wrote: One option is set your post processor to post radius not ikj values. That helped me once. They are much more forgiving Thanks. I read in the manual that the radius arcs are not as accurate. Probably a moot point for what we are making. On Tue, 8 Feb

Re: [Emc-users] Trouble with arc error

2022-02-07 Thread Andy Howell
On 2/7/22 12:04, andy pugh wrote: On Mon, 7 Feb 2022 at 17:55, Andy Howell wrote: I issued a G91.1 in the MDI as well. I also deleted moved emc.var to make sure it wasn't picking anything up from there. There was nothing suspicious in there though. I don't think there are any other files

Re: [Emc-users] Trouble with arc error

2022-02-07 Thread andrew beck
One option is set your post processor to post radius not ikj values. That helped me once. They are much more forgiving On Tue, 8 Feb 2022, 09:48 Stuart Stevenson, wrote: > Something is fishy between the Y values. > You have Y4. in the first list and Y0. in the full listing. > > On

Re: [Emc-users] Trouble with arc error

2022-02-07 Thread Stuart Stevenson
Something is fishy between the Y values. You have Y4. in the first list and Y0. in the full listing. On Mon, Feb 7, 2022 at 2:39 PM Stuart Stevenson wrote: > I see it in your gcode file listing > > On Mon, Feb 7, 2022 at 2:39 PM Stuart Stevenson wrote: > >> Where is the decimal point

Re: [Emc-users] Trouble with arc error

2022-02-07 Thread Stuart Stevenson
Where is the decimal point in the X value of "End=(X1, Y0.8964)"? I would say it is X1. and expect this is a typo when you entered this in the email. On Sun, Feb 6, 2022 at 11:12 PM Andy Howell wrote: > We had been cutting with the same gcode when suddenly it came up with an > error: >

Re: [Emc-users] Trouble with arc error

2022-02-07 Thread Stuart Stevenson
I see it in your gcode file listing On Mon, Feb 7, 2022 at 2:39 PM Stuart Stevenson wrote: > Where is the decimal point in the X value of "End=(X1, Y0.8964)"? > I would say it is X1. and expect this is a typo when you entered this > in the email. > > > On Sun, Feb 6, 2022 at 11:12 PM

Re: [Emc-users] Trouble with arc error

2022-02-07 Thread andy pugh
On Mon, 7 Feb 2022 at 17:55, Andy Howell wrote: > I issued a G91.1 in the MDI as well. I also deleted moved emc.var to > make sure it wasn't picking anything up from there. There was nothing > suspicious in there though. I don't think there are any other files that > its stores state in, is

Re: [Emc-users] Trouble with arc error

2022-02-07 Thread Andy Howell
On 2/7/22 04:21, andy pugh wrote: On Mon, 7 Feb 2022 at 10:10, andy pugh wrote: Have you accidentally switched between G90.1 and G91.1 ? Forget that, I see that you have an explicit G91.1 in the code. I suspect that you have accidentally introduced a Y _tool_ offset during touch-off,

Re: [Emc-users] Trouble with arc error

2022-02-07 Thread andy pugh
On Mon, 7 Feb 2022 at 10:10, andy pugh wrote: > Have you accidentally switched between G90.1 and G91.1 ? Forget that, I see that you have an explicit G91.1 in the code. I suspect that you have accidentally introduced a Y _tool_ offset during touch-off, touching off the tool rather than the

Re: [Emc-users] Trouble with arc error

2022-02-07 Thread andy pugh
On Mon, 7 Feb 2022 at 05:12, Andy Howell wrote: > > We had been cutting with the same gcode when suddenly it came up with an > error: > > Radius to end of are differs from radius to start: Have you accidentally switched between G90.1 and G91.1 ? -- atp "A motorcycle is a bicycle with a