Carbide Create G-CODE

Hi all creators-

Line 12 (Bold and Italics) in my G-Code generated with Carbide Create for Nomad883 contains ’A0.000’, which makes Z-homing incredibly slow (see below). Is there a reason for this?

Many thanks in advance.

-Peter

% USING CARBIDE CREATE
(FILENAME: )
(STOCK/BLOCK, 10.000, 10.000, 12.500, -0.000, -0.000, 12.500)
G21
G90
(TOOL/MILL,3.1750,0,19.0500,0.0)
M6 T102
M3 S8500
G0X0.000Y0.000Z2.540
(Waterline Finish)
G0X-0.930Y-1.284
G1A0.000Z-0.150F100.0

% USING MESHCAM
(FILENAME: )
()
G21
G90
G0X0.000Y0.000Z12.000
(TOOL/MILL,3.1750,0,1.0000,0.0)
M6 T102
M3 S9000
G0X12.700Y12.700
G0
G1Z-0.254F114.3

In g-code G1A0.000 just means move the A-axis to 0. It’s the F100.0 that is the feedrate (4in/min), but your meshcam isn’t much faster at F114.3. So after you do a G1A0.000, later when you do a homing cycle ($H) back to the upper right, it goes really slowly? Weird.

FWIW I don’t see the slow homing on my Nomad with Carbide Create. It does however, go really slowly back to the work piece after a tool change in MeshCAM however, but that’s because it uses the plunge rate for it and I’d prefer a rapid back to the retract height first.

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Hi Mark-

Thanks much for introducing me to G-CODE basics - I clearly need to read up on this. Still, I need to figure out why ‘Rapid Positioning’ was so slow - I’ll do some simple experiments today.

Best.

-Peter