I have Vcarve Pro 12.0 and have updated the post processor list and the BB Rotary post processors are not there. I found a link elsewhere in the forum but when you open the zip files they are not pp files. Is there another link somewhere to download these so I can get my Revolution up and running?
You can modify the file name and simply add a .pp at the end of those files. Vectric will then recognize them.
Question: does your rotary axis A read in degrees or inches/ mm?
My BB Rotary works great but it reads linear, (inches or mm) and vcarve output for rotary is in degrees. Can’t seem to solve this one.
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Mine reads in inches also. I would think degrees should be the default. I was hoping that there would be a few videos out by people smarter than me before we received the Revolution.
Sorry, when I say works great, I mean it does everything it supposed to do on the control screen and with the remote pad, but it moves in linear measurements. Gcode G0 A180 will move it 180 inches, about 30 rotations, instead of 1/2 a rev.
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Haha, gotcha Raidernation34, I was hoping the same thing.
Asked support about the inches today and they didn’t seem to know much about the issue. Maybe you’ll have better luck. I’m all set up but stalled for now.
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I appreciate your help, I’ll give it a go tomorrow and see what I can figure out. If I find anything I’ll let you know.
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Onefinity ROTARY (MM).pp (5.0 KB)
I’m not great with the forum. If this works it is the BB rotary PP for Vcarve that the support guy gave me today. He said the old one had a bug. I tried it, works good but still outputs the rotary in degrees which then gets translated to mm by the BB controller. The X and Z axis on the job worked great but the A axis was a mess.
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@raidernation34 : I think I might have a solution to the inches vs degrees. I adjusted the travel per rev number from 10 mm to 51.4. This gives me 360 mm for one full rotation. Now the “fake” mm match up to degrees so the Vcarve output in degrees has a chance to work. It looks good so far. I have asked onefinity support to look at my numbers. I’ll let you know if they agree.
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Solution: Working with Onefinity support they have found a bug in the firmware where the stepper values are not updating when the Rotary button is changed. This makes the “steps wrong”.
Here is the temporary solution from Onefinity support:
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The Y2 axis values are not changed to the A axis values. We’re working with the Dev team to correct this issue.
The settings should be as follows:
Microsteps = 16
Max-Velocity = 6.696
Max-Accel = 500
Max-Jerk = 1000
Step-Angle = 0.25714 degrees
Travel-Per-Rev = 360
Manually enter these values into the Motor 2 settings page (Be sure the drop down is set to “A” and not Y or Y2) then be sure to press save in the top left corener.
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My “fix” made it work, but it was not correct. As support mentions, make sure you go to motor 2 in settings after rotary has been selected. If it doesn’t say A at the top, click motor one and then click motor 2 again. It should now say A at the top. Enter the values as directed by support.
Many thanks to Support.
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Thank you so much for all of your help, I really appreciate it.
So I’m at least functional now but when I try to do a simple rounding tool path it basically like a fluting path because it is only hitting about 12 lines the length of the cylinder. I’m using the inch post processor I think I will try the updated mm one you sent the link to.
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Hello Matthew: Did you update the settings in motor 2 as mentioned earlier? Just wondering because if not the rotary would turn much further than it’s supposed to.
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I did and I made sure that I changed the units to metric and it made things at least work but there still seems to be something off. I’m going to try the metric post processor that you shared and see if that makes a difference.
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@raidernation34 Okay, got it. There are a lot of tricky parts I have found to Vcarve. Seeing the unwrapped model for one thing is weird. Choosing raster angles can also have an effect it seems. Good luck, I am not great with Vcarve rotary, so maybe some others can help out.
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@rdjennin I switched to the metric post processor and am now up and running but man there are a lot of weird things that happen within the firmware that you have to work around.
@raidernation34
Good for you Matthew. Well done. How is the probing going for you? My Z probing is working perfectly but the Y probe is giving me problems.
It doesn’t set Y0 over the center of the axis. I was working with support on it but it seems like it is just my system. I just set Y0 manually with a v bit and the indicators behind the chuck.
Did you find other problems with the firmware? Weird things happen to me, it will kick me out of rotary mode when I do certain things like make a setting change or delete a gcode file. I simply put rotary back on but it’s a bit weird.
Any issues for you?
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Updated 5/8/24
Onefinity WrapY2A (inch).pp (4.5 KB)
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