Hey guys!
I’m trying to make a baseball bat for my grandson out of ash. I went to Aspire and did the gadget, wrapping/create rounding toolpath for roughing the blank (3” sq). I then followed Kyle Ely on designing the bat. I have 2 toolpaths for the bat design, one for rough design and one for finish.
I went through Eric’s video on setting up the rotary and successfully got everything square,plumb and true. I set the X axis to clear the chuck.
I load the job into EX and then go F1 ( Set Zero part), then F6 (Rotary) then F5 (Recall Calibrate). I then zero my bit to the touch plate on the tail stock platform, hit cycle start which moves it to the X axis start position “0”.
When I start any of the jobs (i’ve tried all 3 toolpaths), the RTG is shown as flat and the spindle starts up and cuts from the Y0 axis to +Y , as if the job is laid out flat.
I’ve re-calibrated, reset the Wizard to make sure I didn’t miss anything and have re-programmed the Aspire files from new and still cannot get the rotary to function as expected. The rotary does respond to both the keyboard and pendant.
Thanks for your help!!
Rich Miller
Can you post a snippet of the g-code?
0010 ; ---------------------------------------------
N0020 ; Filename: Rounding Toolpath
N0030 ;XY Origin PositionBottom Left Corner
N0040 ;XY Origin Value X0.000 Y0.000
N0050 ;Z Origin Table Surface
N0060 ;
N0070 ;Material size:
N0080 ;X 26.800 Y 9.425 Z 1.500
N0090 ;
N0100 ;Tools Used In Job:
N0110 ;48 = Ball Nose (1/4)
N0120 ;
N0130 ;Toolpaths In this Job
N0140 ;Rounding Toolpath
N0150 ;
N0160 ; Generated by Vectric for Avid EX Controllers
N0170 ; Ver 1.2 for 11x and later
N0180 ; ---------------------------------------------
N0190 ; Move to Z home
N0200 G53 Z0
N0210 ; Circular Interpolation Plane Selection XY - Cutter Compensation Cancel
N0220 G17 G40
N0230 ; Select Inches Units
N0240 G20
N0250 ; Canned Cycle Cancel
N0260 G80
N0270 ; Absolute Positioning Mode
N0280 G90
N0290 ; ---------------------------------------------
N0300 ; Toolchange: T48 - Speed: S19000
N0310 ; ---------------------------------------------
N0320 ; Start Tool Change
N0330 T48 M6
N0340 ; Spindle on CW
N0350 M3 S19000
N0360 ; ---------------------------------------------
N0370 G53 Z0
N0380 G0 X0.0000 Y1.0816
N0390 G0 Z2.5000
N0400 G0 Z2.2500
N0410 G1 Z1.9971 F100
N0420 G1 X26.8000 F120
N0430 G1 Y1.0964
N0440 G1 X0.0000
N0450 G1 Y1.1113
I figured it out.
!!!Make sure you check your POST PROCESSOR!!!
Thanks Greg!!!
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