I just did a job and it didn’t cut all the way through. I want change the width of the wood in Carbide Create and rerun the on the same piece. I haven’t moved the wood. Is this possible?
Yes, it remembers the last X, Y, Z zero locations that were set.
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That’s great news! Thank you!
Yes the coordinates are remembered with one caveat. Every time you initialize you can be a few thousands off due to the accuracy of the proximity switches. The proximity switches are very accurate but not perfect.
Yeah I found this out the hard way. Well, it was worth a shot. Lol!
Sometime, if I need to re-machine part of a design, i will move the design in Carbide Create to align the zero with something I have already machined, and that works pretty well. For example, I have a piece with engraved text, which I need to add to regularly. (Think the Stanley Cup, but for a Fishing Tournament). I have moved the design in Carbide Create so I can zero the machine off the dot of one of the existing “i” letters, and then add new V-Carved Text in the right place. Not perfect, but good enough!
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Thank you for sharing. I’ll definitely give that a try!
When I run really long jobs (many hours) with multiple toolpaths and the spot on the stock that I’m using as my zero will be machined during the job I’ll initially set my zero with the bitzero off the front/left corner of my hybrid table before moving to the projects actual zero location. I then record the X/Y/Z values which is basically an offset of the front/left part of the machine prior to locking in the projects zero point. Now obviously here I need to manually set zero but it would be really nice if Carbide Motion could allow us to probe a second zero point and display the offset between 2 points but it doesn’t.
Anyways this way if I need to take a break/re-initialize for any reason and feel like I may be off I can always recover using the bit zero on the front left corner and then jog to the X/Y/Z point I registered at the beginning and reestablish my zero point even though the stock has been machined away.
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Thank you Patrick. That’s really helpful!
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