First off, brandy new to using a CNC! Received my 1F Woodworker Pro a few weeks back and finally have it all setup, but getting to my first print has been troublesome… I’m just attempting to make a simple square to test things out and something is not right in Carveco Maker.
I am homing fine, and probing the corner of the material fine. And just to be on the safe side, setting G20 before I do anything.
I get all the basics setup in Carveco, save it, and attempt to run… but then I get the following error “Y axis position -nnn.nnnn mm is less than the minimum soft limit 0mm”
Any ideas what might be happening here?
For reference, I tried one of the Vectric sample files in Vectric, and it cut perfectly, no errors.
Thanks in advance! [note - since I am a new forum user, I can only attach one image… going to see if I can drop more screenshots in the comments… if not, please just let me know if you need me to do a readout on any settings!]
@OnefinityCNC Ok, got some time tonight to play around with it. I have homed and probed to the corner of my material, all looks well there. However, when I go to cut (I created a 32x32 material in Carveco, and dropped a ~6" circle dead center of the material.
When I go to run the file (it being dead center, got around the Y axis issue I was seeing), it is attempting to cut out the circle about 3.5" from the left side and 6.5" from the front (measurements based on how much of the X and Y axis bars are visible), over the wasteboard. So I then emergency stop it ASAP.
It seems like something being calculated is way off somewhere? Like it is ignoring the material size, or starting from where it was probed?
I would gander that its something within Carveco… since Vectric was able to work right out the gate with one of their demos, based upon homing and probing, it cut exactly where it was supposed to. But if I can save a bunch on Carveco by going that route, I’d love to get it figured out
Thanks for the response… I am sure there is something glaring and simple I am missing, that I will one day look back on and laugh about my ignorance
I attempted that, and it still wants to start way up close to the home position. It’ll make a circle just fine, just on the wasteboard, way off of the material.
Did a new project from scratch again, set the center to zero… homed and probed the machine, and it again comes back a few inches off home when I kick it off.
Thanks for helping this newbie figure out his right from his left!
When I home the machine, it comes all the way up to the front left and top of Z. I then probe at the front left corner of the material, which is about 10.5" in on the X axis, and about 3.75" in on the Y.
I then probe, and when I run the NGC file (Onefinity BB Inch), that is when it comes back over to the front from over the workpiece where it was probed to start the cut.
Took a bunch more photos of the process, coming here and in follow up replies (because not only as a new account I can only post a single photo in a post, I can only have 2 links…)
Thanks for helping this newbie figure out his right from his left!
When I home the machine, it comes all the way up to the front left and top of Z. I then probe at the front left corner of the material, which is about 10.5" in on the X axis, and about 3.75" in on the Y.
I then probe, and when I run the NGC file (Onefinity BB Inch), that is when it comes back over to the front from over the workpiece where it was probed to start the cut.
Took a bunch more photos of the process… incoming in follow up replies:
Shot of the screen after homing (and the location of the router)
