Strange Toolpath
Posted: Fri Sep 09, 2011 7:32 pm
Has anyone had this happen. I made a program in VCarve to a wood part 14" wide at the top tapered on both sides to 6" at the base and 17" tall. The material was 3/4 thick. I did not catch it at first but when I did, I noticed that the machine was slowly going down while moving in the x and then y axis. It really came to my attention when I was cutting and noticed Z axis was .250" about 2/3 around the first path. I had set my tool path to cut .075" per pass and when I noticed that I was already .250" deep I paused the machine. I began checking my depths around the perimeter of the part and sure enough the cut was progressively deeper. I stopped the machine and went back and looked at my VCarve program and the Z depth was moving down frequently in .001 increments. I went back to my program and reran the tool path and this time the program came out okay. I do not know what happened. Does anyone have a logical explanation.
Thanks
Bob
Thanks
Bob