Strange cuts with nomad

Software Carbide Motion
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Hi there. I am a CNC newbie. So please forgive me for any mistakes or stupid questions.

I was playing with Nomad past month, learning how to work with CAM and Fusion360. So basically wasting wood.

From time to time I am getting strange cuts in the piece which were not part of the model imported into MeshCAM. (see attached dropbox URL).

I wonder if someone could point me where my mistake is…

project files https://www.dropbox.com/sh/ou41b425wi3ya6z/AAAFXcUJ7ERCSfebF0hV9-XCa?dl=0

Thanks for the great product! Love my Nomad.

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@anton42, could you zip and attach the gcode from the model you show in the Dropbox please? I’ll run it through CutViewer and see if the “groovy” move was commanded. I expect not, and at some point the Nomad X axis stalled at some point and was out of position from then on.

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@Randy there is wave1.nc file in it. Let me know if thats not enough.
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/ou41b425wi3ya6z/AAAFXcUJ7ERCSfebF0hV9-XCa?dl=0&preview=wave1.nc

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I ran the .nc file through OpenSCAM simulation and that cut doesn’t appear to be in the file. You must have lost steps somewhere during the cut. Check your speeds and feeds and make sure you weren’t too aggressive.

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@Randy @jonniemac I am using OSX Carbide Motion 2.0.314 and Caffeine.app to prevent the sleep.
the cut was done while rough cut (first 30 mins)…
I did run it via OpenSCAM as well and it looked with no cuts.

How I can prevent “drop step” issue? This is not the first time I am getting such and wonder if there is a remedy…

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@jonniemac as for speeds I am pretty new in this and using MeshCAM -> Carbide auto toolpath on hardwood with round ball. no experiments. defaults only

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If you’re using Fusion360, the tool library and all of the speeds and feeds are up to you. Look into GWizard or HSMAdvisor … both good calculators that help you calculate the proper settings based on material and cutter.

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thanks for pointing into the right direction!

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@anton42, your roughing stepover might be a little large. It looks like you are using a stepover almost equal to the cutter diameter? But your roughing stepdown is not much more than 1/10 your cutter diameter. I’d try (just “seat of the pants”) maybe making the roughing stepover 1/2 the cutter diameter and the stepdown 1/4 the cutter diameter. I like to keep roughing stepovers not more than 1/2 the cutter diameter and adjusting the cut by the stepdown.

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Thanks for sharng. I was using meshcam defaults mostly because I am new and believe defaults are safe but I will try next time to use your approach.

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It looks like cuts disapeared after I leave macbook alone with the job and stop coding and compiling multitasks:)) I wish I could just upload the job into Raspberry pi and leave it there alone.

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sorry for bothering you about stepdown… but what if I drill 3 times cutter diameter and go with 1/10 or 1/5 stepover at 10k rpm? : ) is there a practice of roughcutting by side of the drill?