Gcode changed automatically from carbide 3 d to pro version?

[BIKEeRACK (Guillaume Bedard)]

Automatically changed gcode from carbide 3 d to pro?

Hi guys i need some help. Been using the shapoko pro for the last 18 monts or so make part for our starting bike rack business. Www.BIKEeRACK.com if you are curious.

Only used it on aluminum and up to 3/4 inch plates with great success

Overall been great reliable machine. I Got it to a set a forget system using mist and air and vacuuming same time in a sound proof cabinet with baffle air intake to allow air in while vacuuming out.

Anyway i changed to pro lately to make solid draw bar rounded edge.

Definitely not a program designed to make structural design but its worked with some trials and creative round shape intersecting the edge of the bar .

Thanks for reading the intro

To manage some rough materials we started surfacing i call it our part by running a pocket tool path skimming the surface.

On the standard free 2 d carbide version i got a milling pattern that add the plunge path in the corner matching the pattern.

Now when i load the same program after loading the pro version i get the drop plunge actions shifting in the center or 90 degree if i do square which ruins the look of the part.

Can this be corrected manually in the gcode. Thank you.

Please look at the pics and advise. Customers waiting

Gui

[Tod1d (Tod (with 1 'd'))]

In the first picture you are cutting the shape of the bracket (Trapezoid?), where the 2nd picture you are cutting the entire rectangle. ??

There is no way in CC to choose the starting point of a path. In Contour you can cut the vector so it starts at the start or end of the curve.

If I want a specific path shape, I draw in the toolpath & use a contour path to control it.
Here’s an example of a surfacing path.

[BIKEeRACK (Guillaume Bedard)]

Hi Todd. Thank you for your time and inputs. Seems like you have a solution. And even better i could do my own design maybe.

Nevermind the difference in pattern. I need to get the line out of the middle of the pattern on any of the two. I tried the trapezoid one because it save time since its following the actual shape of the part. Other one is generated over the hole stock size son it’s longer.

After i tried the tool path following the part you can see in the center that i tried my original one and it shouted the line 90 degree to the side instead of following the diagonal shifting point like it did with the free version of carbide. This happen after i loaded the pro version as mentioned.

I really need to get this blue line to go back in row so i can resume production.

Also if i may ask you. To make repeat parts i usually trick the system by duplication of tool path in a row and alternating between different rpm between them. So between each tool path it request a change speed message.

I then cut motor of. Replace part and restart the rooter then press start again at same rpm and its instantly start again without doing any of the homing sequences.

Its works great but i wondering if there was a formal way to do.

Thank you very much for your assistance.

Gui

[BIKEeRACK (Guillaume Bedard)]

[Tod1d (Tod (with 1 'd'))]

Unfortunately, CC is going to choose whatever pocket pattern it wants to.
I think it just offsets the outside shape inward, reverses it, then connects it up.

I might just create a curve like this, and eliminate the lines altogether.

[BIKEeRACK (Guillaume Bedard)]

Thank you Tod for the explanation and your time. I will play with it. Kind of wish i did not get the pro now. See if i returned the to the free cc of the series i originally had on and will try for the circle. That may be pretty cool. Time is never on our side.
Cheers
Gui

[BIKEeRACK (Guillaume Bedard)]

Hi Tod. Thanks again for your inputs! Decided to try reloading the older version 652 and it all came back to normal.

When i find time i may try to make my own with a contour tool path like you mentioned!

Great community spirit around here
now back into the machine

for 20 min of surfacing each !

[Tod1d (Tod (with 1 'd'))]

I see the difference now. The stepover occurs in a different place. They must have changed the algorithm a bit between versions.

If you want the corners in the path even, then try making the boundary used for cutting even.
It’s just doing an inside offset of your vector, so if the corner on the vector is chamfered equally the pattern will look nicer.

[BIKEeRACK (Guillaume Bedard)]

Wow thank you Tod. That is very helpful! This last one you drafted may be perfectly what i need to be able to do the hole part in one go and look great. I could still hang on to it from above in the triangle left untouched. I am trying to press it down so the natural bow in the 3/8 by 10 stock is flattened to get it all in a 0.015 pass. If i don’t sometimes i need to surface a second pas to get it all.

Also be noted that anything made on v7 doesn’t work on v652. Shows up with no toolpath.

Good man you made my day yesterday !

Sorry for my lack of terminology knowledge. Most of my effort so far went to getting ways to mill aluminum reliably! Getting there now. Lessons is faster end up mostly slower. Slow and steady wins the race. Better to set slow and forget than fast and on edge watching!