curve problem

[germ]

I work in a shop with three seats of mc9.2. We are experiencing a problem with one machine warping one quadrant of the geometry even though it doesn't show in toolpath or verify it shows in part. Anyone out there experienced anything like this? I've reinstalled everything, but to no avail. My mc9 file is on ftp site as "curve_problem_14b-1.mc9"

[Keith Graydon]

Hello germ.

 

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with one machine warping one quadrant of the geometry

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Do you mean one seat(machine) or one tool(machine)?

 

/damn english.

 

Anyway, post a sample

 

-Keith

[germ]

one seat. our other two post the same toolpath with the exact same code except for 1/4 of the circle. I should mention it only happens on round geometry. my file is in ftp mc9 folder.

[Keith Graydon]

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my file is in ftp mc9 folder

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....but I'm living in an Mc8 world....

[mayday]

just a random shot in the woods, but could it have anything to do with the arc check area of the post

 

 

arccheck : 1 #Check for small arcs, convert to linear

atol : .01 #Angularity tolerance for arccheck = 2

ltol : .002 #Length tolerance for arccheck = 1

vtol : .0001 #System tolerance

[germ]

I've checked all those settings in post and they match. All three seats have identical posts, but I appreciate the inpt

[Jimmy Wakeford from Barefoot CNC]

germ

Did you try copying posts from GReg's machine to yours?

 

After telling you to email it, it occured to me that it will prolly work on my pc.

 

What is the latest download on that machine compared to the other? Is it 9.1 sp2?

[gcode]

Make sure all 3 machines are running the latest version of MP.DLL. 9.18 is available on this forum and Mastercams support pages.

Try coping the mill.cfg file from a good machine to the bad one.

 

edit:

If all else fails, uninstall MC and delete the MC9 folder from the computer. Then do a clean install with a V9.1 SP2 disc. It sounds like something has been corupted and the regular install procedure is not overwriting it.

[germ]

One clean install and re-application of all updates later, everthing runs like clockwork.

thanks for the help everyone