Circles radius inverted

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damonkirby
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Model of CNC Machine: SCM Pratix P15

Circles radius inverted

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Firstly, Apologies if this is not the correct area..

When I apply tooling to a circle, save the toolpaths and open in Xilog Plus - it is no longer a circle (see picture)
Looks as it should on Vcarve.

Now I can manually change the R=51.5 to R=-51.5 to correct this, but wondered if there is a more permanent fix?

i.e. is it a setting in VCarve or the Postprocessor setting, which Vectric supplied us?

Our CNC is an SCM Pratix P15
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zeeway
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Re: Circles radius inverted

Post by zeeway »

Your g-code is resetting the center of the arc for each quadrant...strange.

What is this screen?
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Are you constructing a circle within VCP and toolpathing it....or do you have some kind of gadget/macro you are filling in the blanks in, and hoping to generate a circle. If it is the latter, I suspect that may be the problem.

Angie

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