Problem with cutting

[rayc]

Hi. Having watched the tutorials several times and followed the step by step tutorial on importing clipart from the vectric cd into a working model and the tutorial for cutting I have hit a problem.

All the stages went as the tutorial until I came to sending the tool path to the machine.

I got the message " error occured while writing toolpathto file " " d:\vector_art_3d_clipart profile 1 roughing wheel.txt"

" check that the file is not read only" " the file is not open in another application and there is sufficient disc space available"

Any ideas what is going wrong.

On top of this I tried to save the file and got the message " fail to create file code 1"

I have created a model of my own design in Aspire and added an imported 3d model of the dogs head from cut 3d and this worked fine.

Thanks
Rayc

[mark296]

Hi. Having watched the tutorials several times and followed the step by step tutorial on importing clipart from the vectric cd into a working model and the tutorial for cutting I have hit a problem.

All the stages went as the tutorial until I came to sending the tool path to the machine.

I got the message " error occured while writing toolpathto file " " d:\vector_art_3d_clipart profile 1 roughing wheel.txt"

" check that the file is not read only" " the file is not open in another application and there is sufficient disc space available"
Any ideas what is going wrong.

On top of this I tried to save the file and got the message " fail to create file code 1"

I have created a model of my own design in Aspire and added an imported 3d model of the dogs head from cut 3d and this worked fine.

Thanks
Rayc

It looks like you are trying to save the toolpath to the DVD rom. Save it to the harddrive.

[rayc]

Thanks for the reply that may be the case when I tried to save the file

I still cannot see why does it not send to the Machine?

Rayc

[ger21]

I still cannot see why does it not send to the Machine?

Rayc

It doesn't work that way. It saves a g-code file, which you then must load into your machines control.

[rayc]

So it is the same as cut 3d then.

I usually save the file to my documents in cut 3d so I will do the same with Aspire and that should sort it.

Thanks
Rayc

[rayc]

Thanks for the replies.

As usual excellent support and advice top draw forum.

Up and running now excellent program Aspire well done Vectric

RayC

[bebbaboo]

I am getting the same error, but on only 1 toolpath for my design. All of the other toolpaths saved correctly. I am saving to a thumb drive to take to my CNC computer in my shop. I have rebooted, erased the vector (it is the outside cutout line that is erroring out), recreated the vector, recalculated .. all to no avail. I still get the error. I have attached the error window. There is 7.34 GB free on my thumb drive, I have no idea how anything could have been set to read only, it is not open in another application. Help!

[bebbaboo]

I figured it out! Turns out, my vector was OPEN. Once I closed it and recalculated, it saved correctly. Misleading error message!

[Adrian]

The open vector would have been nothing at all to do with that error message. It was just a coincidence that whatever was going on with the thumb drive sorted itself out while you were fixing the other issue.