Okay so I am at my Whit’s end here, perhaps somebody can offer up some guidance. I’m just trying to run my first rounding tool path to test out the rotary. Every time I run it the start position is nowhere near the material. I have tried all post-processors available just to see if there is something going on there.
As you can see in the attached image you can see the spindle position where it’s starting and you can see the red lines indicating where the tool path is this is what happens every single time. So I know the tool path is correct, but what’s with the start position when it’s clearly dictated to be elsewhere.
I’m using the rotary probe, That everything appears to be set correctly as the zero position brings it right over the top left of the material but then when it goes to execute the job it moves out to the position displayed in the attached photo.
Apologies on any grammar issues I’m just doing talk-to-text on my phone cuz I just took the picture.
The simulation looks like your material is set up to run parallel with the y axis, but the only supported way and post processor is for the rotary to be parallel to the x axis.
It does run parralell to the X, I’m using the WrapY PP, it just is running parralell as if the material were sitting 70mm offset to where it actually is. And I cant find any correlation to that number, 70mm, there is nothing close to that in the setup that could be set wrong.
So i mentioned 70mm as that was the best measure i could get with the calipers, i just looked at the work position and sure enough its 63.12mm offset. Im at a loss why it is doing this.
If the work position is showing the offest, that means the probe has the right coordinates. Im completely lost as to what could be happening here. Very strange.
So here is something interesting. I thought ok, something is forcing it to offset from Y0 by 63mm, let me just change Y0 to -63. When I ran the program, it went to Y146…lol
Perhaps that will tell sombody something, it boggles my mind. It just wants to ride that line parrallel to X at 63mm. X0 is correct, and it has the length of the material just fine.
