Post by scw on Jun 9, 2018 17:16:15 GMT -5
Hello.
I started a new wrapping job setup. I needed a 1.4" finished diameter (which is a 4.398" circumference). Aspire 9.0 calculated all of this correctly and I was successfully able to mill my square stock down to 1.4" round stock.
I then needed the CNC machine to mill some 0.5" wide, 3/8" deep rabbits around the ends of my wooden dowel. As you can see below, I set up two 'pocket' rectangles in Aspire equal to 0.5" wide and 5" around the circumference; my tool path set the pocket depth to 3/8" deep.
You can see here that my Aspire preview shows that the rabbits should go completely around my dowel as designed.
In reality, the two rabbit pockets were only milled between 0 degrees to approx 150 degrees. The tool path depth was correct at 3/8" deep.
Initially I thought there might be an Aspire 9.0 conflict when using "automatically generated" Gadget vectors and "manually generated" user vectors (seeing as how I saved both tool paths into a single output file for my CNC machine because both the 'create round tool path' and the two 'pocketed rabbit' tool paths both used the 0.5" end mill). But even when I start a new project from scratch and only add the pockets for my rabbits, I still see the exact same incomplete rotation results. So I'm thinking this has nothing to do with mixing the Gadget vectors with other vectors. Also, I'm pretty sure that my stepper is not losing counts because my rounding tool path from before made it all the way around; additionally, I would think the angle would "wander" if I were losing counts, but the start and stop rotations are always consistent.
Does anyone have thoughts on what could be limiting my 4th axis rotations during the pocket tool path, when the Aspire simulations show me what I expect from the electronic design? Did I inadvertently mess up some setting in my controller? Thank you.
I started a new wrapping job setup. I needed a 1.4" finished diameter (which is a 4.398" circumference). Aspire 9.0 calculated all of this correctly and I was successfully able to mill my square stock down to 1.4" round stock.
I then needed the CNC machine to mill some 0.5" wide, 3/8" deep rabbits around the ends of my wooden dowel. As you can see below, I set up two 'pocket' rectangles in Aspire equal to 0.5" wide and 5" around the circumference; my tool path set the pocket depth to 3/8" deep.
You can see here that my Aspire preview shows that the rabbits should go completely around my dowel as designed.
In reality, the two rabbit pockets were only milled between 0 degrees to approx 150 degrees. The tool path depth was correct at 3/8" deep.
Initially I thought there might be an Aspire 9.0 conflict when using "automatically generated" Gadget vectors and "manually generated" user vectors (seeing as how I saved both tool paths into a single output file for my CNC machine because both the 'create round tool path' and the two 'pocketed rabbit' tool paths both used the 0.5" end mill). But even when I start a new project from scratch and only add the pockets for my rabbits, I still see the exact same incomplete rotation results. So I'm thinking this has nothing to do with mixing the Gadget vectors with other vectors. Also, I'm pretty sure that my stepper is not losing counts because my rounding tool path from before made it all the way around; additionally, I would think the angle would "wander" if I were losing counts, but the start and stop rotations are always consistent.
Does anyone have thoughts on what could be limiting my 4th axis rotations during the pocket tool path, when the Aspire simulations show me what I expect from the electronic design? Did I inadvertently mess up some setting in my controller? Thank you.
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