Having owned this machine for several years and using it without issues, I ma working on building a wooden clock. Many gears to cut, and I have cut many without issue. I am using Vcarve desktop 12, Carbide motion 640 ,
64 tooth gear 10.5 x 10.5 4 pass.zip (540.2 KB)
64 tooth gear 10.5 x 10.5 4 pass.zip (540.2 KB)
and attempting to carve a 64 tooth gear. Having carved others 30, 32, 6, 10 tooth gears without an issue. The DFX file loads without an issue, I vectorize it, close vectors, simulate cut on vcarve screen, home the machine, move the 1/8 In bit to the lower left hand corner, zero, then the machine remeasures the bit lenght. I then say run, it askes to set the RPM of the router and I select start. As the laminate is Easly 2 form the front of the machine, the cutter moves to the XY, then moves forward and alarms with the message of "Project will hit the front of the machine (Y) The program zero is 92mm too far forward. I checked to see that all is consistent with Inches, for both the gear parameters as well as the shapeoko. I don’t understand why it desires to move forward when the project board is towards the back for the cut? This just strated with the large gear. I use styrofoam for the base as I cut clear though and this prevents damage to my spoi board.
If I’m looking at your gcode correctly it has you X Y origin set at top left. Could that be why your getting the error message. When I cut gears I usually use Center as my X Y origin.
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This is a warning:
https://carbide3d.com/blog/carbide-motion-bounds-checking/
Try visualizing how the toolpaths, origin, and machine structure interact.
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