I was cutting a file a couple weeks ago and the spindle got stuck trying to raise up out of the wood. I cut it off as soon as possible.
When I started it back the machine Homed about 12 inches off of the right side of the back of the machine. I cut the machine off and repositioned the spindle to the proper XY home position. Reset all my zeros, however, I was not sure how to home the Z axis.
Now my projects are not cutting at proper depths. Example, I set a Keyhole pass to be at .75" depth on a stock that is only .488" stock and it only goes about 1/2 way into the stock. I have a bottle opener ring that is .058" thick and I set the cut to .060" so it will be just shy of flush. The actual cut is .042. All operations start off of bit setter and my Z zero is set at table top.
How can I correct this so my cuts are completed as programmed?
Okay, sorry to take so long in getting back to this topic. I have very little time to dedicate to the starting of my business (want everything designed and working correctly when I retire from the road).
I spent two complete nights in my shop insuring that I have done everything listed above and then some (including flattening my waste board which only had a couple lines in it, repositioning my 65mm spindle to the middle of the mount instead of the bottom (missed that in initial set up) as well as tramming and squaring my machine).
I am now bald because I have pulled the rest of my hair out. I decided to Drill 10 holes 1/4" diameter into a piece of stock .504 thick, 44" long and 5.5625 wide. Holes are positioned between 10 and 12 inches apart running down both sides of the board, 2,4,6 so on so forth.
I plan to us these holes to allow me to flip machine my stock so I set my drill depth to be .629 in depth so as to drill into my waste board. I set my Z zero to table top and have my settings set for Stock Zero at Bottom and Tool Path Zero to Lower-Left. This should have given me a total depth of .629 which would be .504 stock and .125 into my waste board. By doing this I have eliminated the possibility of the Stock not being .504 through out.
I then proceeded to Drill Baby Drill only to be discouraged again after all these hours of meticulously trying to get a true Z depth cut.
Here is what I found. Left side front to back Hole 1 = .619, Hole 2 = .645, Hole 3 = .632, Hole 4 = .615 and Hole 5 = .610. Now right side front to back Hole 1 = .617, Hole 2 = .624, Hole 3 = .622, Hole 4 = .614 and Hole 5 = .604.
Not sure what to do next. Any Advice Would Be Greatly Appreciated. And by the way, thank you William for replying so Quickly, again my apologies for taking so long to respond back.
Yes, I am using the pecking set-up with full retraction to make sure hole is cleared of debris.
This is very weird, I just decided to run the same drilling file again, resetting all my z’s and this time on the first hole which is hole #5 on the right side it started drilling above the work surface and only cut down into the work surface/stock material .116 and then moved on to the next hole which I stopped it before it got there.
Unfortunately, I am out of time for today. Will hopefully be back in the shop tomorrow morning. Will try whatever is needed to figure this out. Thank you for your assistance.
I would suggest scheduling a training session to go over this with someone on support — you can send them the file you are working on, and photos showing how things are turning out and how you are measuring and they can work through this with you.
Sorry So Long In Replying, However, I wanted to come back and say Thank You to William Adams for all your advice, recommendations and patience. I did contact Support after completing all of the above which provided not resolution. After a few hours of going back and forth with Eugene at Carbide 3D Support and expecting to have to pay for training sessions to resolve my issues, Eugene patiently walked me through several of the things that William had me do. He was able to see through videos and photos that the machine was not performing correctly so after verifying there was something internally wrong he walked me through a hard factory reset on my machine as it was not correcting itself each time I would go through the system set up process with redownloading the software. He was able to walk me through removing all files (except mine) and reset the machine. It is now functioning properly.
Again, Carbide 3D and Shapoeko continue to provide Customer Support far and above any technical support I have ever delt with. My hats off to everyone and Carbide 3D!! Thank You All!