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.
toolpath not loading in mach3
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Re: toolpath not loading in mach3
Scale set correctly? Any code in the code window? Any error messages? What happens if you try to run?
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Re: toolpath not loading in mach3
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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Re: toolpath not loading in mach3
Are you using a correct post for Mach3
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Re: toolpath not loading in mach3
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.