I’m a little confused with this.
I keep getting an axis exceeded errors. As I understand, this could be to protect my spoilboard, and that’s great, except when I need to surface it.
I’ve created a pocket tool path in Fusion360 and it’s cutting 2mm and the setup sets to the top of the workpiece in Fusion. I’ve set the limit to cut into the spoil board well below the 2mm I want to cut.
You can turn off the spoilboard protection feature in the wizard for surfacing if you want.
Before you do that however I would double check to see where your Z zero is by jogging bit to the spoilboard. With the bit on top of the spoilboard the DRO needs to read 0 for z (or very close to it) if it’s wildly off you have something else going on.. perhaps an improperly setup CAM file or your Z zero is set to the wrong place.
If it’s the latter than the control is doing it’s job and protecting you from burying a bit in your spoilboard.
Thanks for the reply, Eric!
Z is reading -14.xxx (or something similar) at the spoilboard surface, and that’s whats confusing me most! You’ve at least confirmed that this isn’t right, so I’m less lost than I thought. SpoilboardWithTTrack.f3d (530.6 KB)
I’ve added the Fusion file, if you want to reference it. I’m totally at a loss on the Fusions side, it looks good to me but that’s not saying much.
This means your Z zero is not set right, or your tool hasn’t been measured, or both.
Check out this section of the video if you haven’t already:
If you have the tip of your bit on the spoilboard, and your Z offset in the WCS table is set to zero, the DRO should read zero (or very very close to it).
If it doesn’t there’s something wrong with your tool height setter setup and I’d recommend you re-set it up: https://youtu.be/g3MMSJ8NxzQ?t=804
If the WCS offset for Z is not zero, make it zero. Then go back to the main screen and see if the DRO reads zero, or very close to it with the tip of the bit on the table. If it does than that means your tool is measured, and that your tool height setter is correct.
If your surfacing G code is setup correctly it should run.
WCS was not zero, so I cleared it.
Unfortunately after doing this multiple times, it still does not work.
I did the process from the video and got z showing 0 at the spoilboard, so it was looking like a Fusion issue. I realized that the tool number in Fusion was different than I was using in Centroid. Once I fixed that, things worked!
I’ll have to print out the tools with numbers so I don’t make a mistake during the tool change!
Thanks for the help, it was frustrating but a good learning experience.
Question: Are you using our Fusion post? If you were it would have prompted you to change the tool to the correct number and would have avoided you needing to keep the tool number in Fusion the same as Centroid
