Recent content by Arckivio

I will now be using Artcam LOL!!! I dropped down to 2mm second, DOC to 0.8mm, did it come out better? Yes, but it's still not behaving as it did previously. I definitely didn't run in climb mode before without noticing as I remember switching between the 2 for certain things. Also, parts run...

Now I can't wait to get down my workshop to try this out! Cutters never snapped so I went with it!!! My initial thoughts regarded the new motors & new breakout board as they were my major changes, but along the way I upped the DOC too!

I did try running much slower but still at the 2mm DOC. Anything at this point is worth a try. Although I can get it to work using the offset, I've never had to use it before so something must have changed.

I did increase my depth of cut from 1.2 to 2mm quite recently but that doesn't explain why it works OK in climb mode, does it? Would the stresses on the cutter be different? I'm going to give that a go next time I'm down there & reduce DOC. Spindle speed is 18.5k.

The feedrate you're seeing is just what I set in aspire, I reduce the speed in mach3 to 40% but I did try running at 10% when I was fiddling with all this & was still rubbish. What's really odd is that at one point, I ran 2 larger clock gears & I actually used them & then aspire decided to throw...

Run my 50mm squares & conventional is undersize & climb is OK. I've added the 2 gcodes. Still weird as I always ran conventional. Also, in that area of aspire there is an allowance offset but I'm pretty sure that has always been at zero

Right, you pushed me in the right direction to check settings & I missed a really obvious one between the 2 aspires!!! On the good aspire it was set to climb mill as it was a newish install for the milling machine & never really used it yet. On the bad it was set to conventional. Creating both...

I can't win. I just got here & the 36v power supply that runs my Z is dead!!! Anyway, cutter diameter is 1.5mm & actually is that size. The cog I've been messing about is 27.987mm at it's largest & the teeth have a max width of 3.2. When run with bad aspire, I get 27.3 on the y & 27.5 on the x...

I'm more intrigued by the finishing cut you mention, maybe something like that is ticked. Everything I've been trying to run has been an outside cut. Lots to check tomorrow!

I will check tomorrow but not sure I will find any differences that would cause the issue between the 2 aspires. It is entirely possible that I accidentally changed a setting on my original install & that's when it went wrong but I have since uninstalled & re installed aspire, including deleting...

Finally got down my workshop to create the gcodes. Also attached a pic of what I end up with. Note that the Artcam software is on the same computer as the bad Aspire

I can do that but will have to be at the weekend. I remember now when this aspire actually went wrong. I needed to re run some clock parts, 2 larger cogs came out OK but everything subsequent to them went wrong. Any new gcode was weird. I will also centre both parts to the same size work area &...

The differing feed speeds are because the good code is from aspire that I use for a milling machine. Yes, they are both created from the same drawing as I have them on both computers. The parts I was trying to run are all parts that I have made before. As I said, I tried some gcode that I...

This continuing saga had me at my workshop this morning before work, full of bravado that I was going to uninstall aspire, but this time go deep in the registry. I used find & find next to delete anything even remotely connected to vectric/aspire. Aspire this time did start from scratch but the...

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