Vcarve not properly ramping into corners for some custom par

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Vcarve not properly ramping into corners for some custom par

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This has been a problem for a few versions now but I figured I'd make a post about it finally. Sometimes when we create custom parts with sharp, or even soft 45 or less degree angles, vcarve won't properly tell the machine to ramp into these corners (slow down) and will hit them at full speed which at the minimum will destroy your entire sheet or at the worst damage your CNC which is what just happened to us moments ago.

We were just cutting a sheet that included the part in the attached file. When it hit the top corners, it was moving so fast it tried to make the corner but couldn't and continued along the X path and took out our tool holder. It's probably not a common problem because I doubt most people are running their machines as fast as ours (8 in/second) but it's a pretty big problem for machines running this fast and you'll never know until it's too late.

Perhaps it's isolated to the Multicam .cnc output but it should definitely be looked into.
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Afaik, V-Carve doesn't have the ability to slow down at sharp corners.
This is an issue with your machine controller.
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This would be handled by the machine controller. It may be referred to as look-ahead. Check the manual for the Multicam controller. I came across this in the Multicam marketing material:
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Re: Vcarve not properly ramping into corners for some custom

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We've had our multicam for 5 years and haven't had this problem until recently.

It has something to do with creating shapes with the cutting tool. I drew that shape from two boxes and two separate lines and then cut away the excess. If you trace over that shape with a single closed polyline then the problem disappears.
Additionally, if I draw a box around that shape and then use "Keep overlap of vectors" it ramps in those corners the way it should. If the problem can be fixed in Vcarve then it's safe to say the problem is with Vcarve itself.

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I cut at those sort of speeds quite often and with similar shapes and haven't seen a problem like that.

I don't see how it can be VCarve at fault as it doesn't generate code to slow the machine down for corners. That's the job of the controller software.

I traced over the shape as you suggested and created two output files, one for each shape in the same position, using the Multicam PP and both files were identical.

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Just did and they're identical. Very strange indeed.

I put an email into Multicam to see what they think it might be.

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It has to do with how the MultiCAM control handles the g-code.

On our Morbidelli, if a corner has a very small radius in the toolpath, it'll try to go around that corner as fast as possible, which can be very violent. But if there's no radius, it'll smoothly decel into the corner, and accel out.
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Mach3 has constant velocity settings, does the Multicam have something similar, or would issuing G09/G61 before the corner and a G64 after the corner work?

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