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Robroy
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Multicam

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Good day Vectric forum. I was wondering if anyone is using vcarve/aspire with a multicam machine? I have been having problems with the multicam machine and aspire, particularly with the knife. The program would not lift the knife in order to travel to the next object, therefore dragging/cutting across the substrate. Multicam blames vectric for sending bad code. Vectric says that it's the way multicam is interpreting the code. smh..... However, this is not the only issue. When you run a program with an endmill (i use vectric on my machine, a AXYZ pacer) and when you execute the file, the machine will get the tool and commence the file. When running vectric on the multicam, the machine will first go to 0,0, then get the tool, then go back to 0,0 and then finally run the program. Does anyone else have issues with vectric and multicam?

Thanks in advance.

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Re: Multicam

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When running vectric on the multicam, the machine will first go to 0,0, then get the tool, then go back to 0,0 and then finally run the program.
You can control that in the post-processor.

The AXYZ post processor shows the following for a tool change:

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begin TOOLCHANGE

"[N]M0"
"[N]G0[SAFEZ]"
"[N]T[T]M06"
"[N]G43[ZH]H1"
"[N]G0[XH][YH][S]M3"
The Multicam post processor shows the following for a tool change:

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begin TOOLCHANGE

"M22"
"G00T[T]"
"G97[S]"
"G00[ZH]"
"G00[XH][YH]"
"M12"
- Randall Newcomb
10 fingers in, 10 fingers out, another good day in the shop

Robroy
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Re: Multicam

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Thank you for the response. How would I do this and would this change have to happen for every file or is it a one and done?

Much appreciated!

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Re: Multicam

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Randall, I have attached the file that we were running with the knife. Does something stand out to you on why it is not lifting to safe Z when finished one object and moving to another?
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Re: Multicam

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All the Z values are negative. I don't know if that is normal for your machine.
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