Ramp Contour

[Rick McAllister]

I'm profiling a part using Contour- Ramp. When posted the path is broken into small linear moves instead of a long move between end point with a single XYZ line. Consequently this program is too large to fit in the control, not to mention load time. Is this a result of a post setting or am I overlooking a Cfg setting. I looked at both and nothing jumped out at me.

Can anyone give me a clue on this one?

Thx,

Rick

[Roger Martin from CNC Software]

Rick,

 

Not sure what you have going on.

If you could upload the MC9 file and your post (PST file) to the forum FTP site, it should not take more than a few minutes to figure out.

 

If you have a HELIX involved in the entry/exit, that could get broken up by the post processor.

 

Check for this in your PST file ->

 

helix_arc : 2 #Support helix arcs

#0=no, 1=all planes, 2=XY plane

[Rick McAllister]

Roger,

That was it. My oversight. I thought I had changed that in all our posts.

Thanks for your time.

Rick