Can the wording for the Z axis Bounds Check Warning be updated to something that makes more sense? Right now it is not very clear that the warning is telling you that the Z axis does not have enough travel to make the required cuts. Instead, it sounds like the cut will be made below low the waste board.
@Etoimos I agree that the wording was confusing the first time I saw it - but it actually is correct. There IS enough Z Travel, the problem is, it’s going to travel below the piece and into the spoil board. It would be nice to have something more clear - like, “based on this design and the measured height of the bit, you will be cutting xxxx “units” below the piece” or something like that.
The thing I would like to see as another improvement, is to have the units match the selected units for the user. The current system always reports in mm, even though everything else I have set in inches. I find myself having to do the conversion in order to figure out if it’s going to plunge a meaningful amount below my piece or not.
So please let me jump on the bandwagon and request BOTH improvements!
- Gary
If it is indeed saying how far below the stock it will cut, then the amount it gives is figured incorrectly. To explain further; I always use the bit setter with the 1/4" blank bit in it to set my XYZ. In nearly everyone of my files I set all of the depth related settings with expressions. My deepest cut ever, is set to t+.45mm. Since I use the bit setter and tell it to cut .45mm below the stock, that is the largest value I should ever see in the warning. However, that is not the case as I see warnings ranging from .6mm all the way to 12+mm sometimes. Heck, I’ve even gotten the warning when no cuts were closer than 5mm to the bottom of the stock.
I need to play around with it more, but I think I noticed a relationship between the amount of stick out on the 1/4" blank bit and when that warning pops up. Which would explain why one day I can run a saved job with no warning and the next day that same job file gives the warning even though the stock is within 2mm of each other and warning is for more than that.
Here is an example of it giving an incorrect amount or eluding to not enough z travel.
This is the file that prompted that error. Note, I did rename the file as I did clean up the vectors some but I did not touch the tool paths for it. What setting in this file could possibly cause the machine to cut 8.2mm below the stock when the machine was zeroed off the top of the stock prior to starting the job?
XO Tray Smooth.c2d (476 KB)
Did you set Z zero before loading the file? Do you have a BitSetter?
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I’ve gotten the message when I set zero (top of stock) but the stock was actually thinner than what I thought. Then it told me it was going to cut .9mm below. I did the quick math and figured out that was .035 inches and decided to let it go anyway - and it was fine (yes, it cut into my spoilboard by the .035 inches).
The message works…it’s just worded the way an engineer thinks. Accurate, but confusing to the layman. And again, I’ve chosen the option to work in Imperial measurements when working in CM and the message is using Metric anyway…I’d like to see that fixed.
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