toolpath not loading in mach3

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wnh2great
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toolpath not loading in mach3

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I went to use my vcarve file in mach3 and when I tried to load the file, it didn't load anything. I tried to pull an old file that has worked in the past, and again nothing. I get a little green dot where the path picture usually is, but nothing else. Also no pathway shows in the runlines. Any help is appreciated.
thanks in advance.

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Re: toolpath not loading in mach3

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Scale set correctly? Any code in the code window? Any error messages? What happens if you try to run?

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Little green dot usually means the view panel is zoomed way out and or the scale of the g-code file is very wrong. I've seen that happen when a file was created in inches but a metric post processor was used to save it. Or when an inch file was imported into the controller as a metric file.

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Are you using a correct post for Mach3
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Post by martin54 »

Can you post the file on the forum? One of the clever people on the forum that read gcode will probably be able to give you an answer that way.

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