What causes z travel exceeded?

[Eric]

@ROTM

Hello I did the work surface to push it a bit below the spoilboard to make sure it will cut thru the material about 1/16"

Don’t do that. If you want to cut through the table just set your cut depth deeper than your material thickness.

You can do this in CAM.

So in the control if you go to Set Part Zeros>WCS table and look at the Z offset, say it’s .75" if you want cut deeper than that in CAM set your cut depth to be someting like .77" (this would cut into the table .02")

Watch this video:

Touch Plate Utility - Avid CNC EX Controller

@ROTM

so I can understand if the worksurface calibration will clear the tool height but when you run a new job it will remeasure the tool?

Yes, but again, only do the work surface calibration if you actually change your work surface (replace it, resurface it, etc) DO NOT do this every time you want to change your Z offset.

@ROTM

The machine works good …I am extremely satisfied here.

Sweet!

@ROTM

and also when you load a new file…it does not display the file name…it displays the lets say profile cut1 …whatever you named your tool cuts in vcarve. but when you go into the graph then it displays the real file name .cnc this messed with my head a few times thinking I loaded the wrong file.

The name of the file you have loaded is in the top of the screen:

This shows how the Z height in the WCS table works.