I have been trying to flatten the waste board on my new gen 2. but I can’t seem to find the actual cutting area printed anywhere in the manual. A simple silly thing but hey where is it stated in print? I made my material in Vectric be 48x32 and tried cutting a profile pass “on the line usi g a 2-inch 6 flute flattening bit. Worked great in the previews on Vcarve Pro but when I load it and then press start it tells me I am trying to cut outside the cutting area? Why when you have your software set up for your specific machine does it let you do all that set up, but when you load it into your machine only when you press start does it tell you OOOPs nope! You care trying to do something wrong? Seems like a software failure to me. most of the videos have either different equipment sizes or they just leave out information that newbies find essential to follow along. Oh and Chrisys flattening video sucks. Any Onefinity sponsored video that uses terms like” here’s how you get around that" simply is saying, this is wrong but do it anyway because we don’t l know how to tell you how to do it right. So, long story and Sunday morning rant aside, what is the actual cutting area of the gen 2 journeyman elite
I think your problem might be in the fact that you are cutting on the line. If your line is 48x32 and you are telling the machine that you have a two-inch bit and you set to cut on the line, you are actually trying to cut 50x34 that is 1 inch on each side of the line. You would have to cut inside the line to keep to the 48x32 dimension or tell the machine that your bit is actually smaller than it truly is.
Machine cutting area dimensions is the range the center of the spindle can reach. To get the actual dimensions of your machine, home it to (0,0), then jog all the way to the right to get your max X, and jog all the way back for the max Y.
The selection of machine in Vcarve is for creating the correct G/M Code for the machine’s instruction set. The material dimensions you set in your project actually don’t matter. The important parts are the [Z Zero] and [XY Datum] positions, as this is the reference point from which all vectors/toolpaths are calculated. I think of the design software as a map generator. When you define your work 0 on the machine, you are placing the map’s home reference point at this location.
Example: You can create a project with a material size of 48x48, and use it on a machine that is 24x24. However, you can only execute the toolpaths for the vectors that fit within the machine’s accessible area. In the example below, I have 10" diameter circles centered in each square foot section.
ADDITIONAL NOTES:
- Your actual material can be any size (that fits between the rails. If it’s smaller than the toolpath, you’ll just cut air where the toolpath is outside the material.
- You can cut material outside the machine dimensions (up to the bit radius). The toolpath (spindle center) has to remain inside the machine limits.
Thanks tom but at the moment I have bigger fish to fry my machine is now decided not to shut down even when I push the “emergency” stop button on the top of the HMI. does anyone else find this a dangerous thing to have happen? after all the reason you push an emergency button is because ITS AN EMERGENCY!!!
I had it occur to me (Elite Gen 1) when I setup and tried the tool setter for the first time. The spindle started over the tool setter and came down drilling into it. I hit the E-Stop but it did not do anything, so I turned off the power at the VFD. I described the issue to Masso and they concluded that I did not fully depress the E-Stop. They said the button was designed with resistance to avoid accidental depression. I think the resistance is a little too much because a forceful strike should be enough to depress it. When starting the machine, I need to put one hand behind the controller while I press the button. (They might as well have you enter a password to do an emergency stop 
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I depressed it fully, I am sure. now i am depressed I spent thousands of dollars on a machine that is faulty to the max. I am thinking of finding out who is in charge of health and safety in Canada and reporting this to them. an emergency button that does not do anything is not only deceptive but also dangerous. Any good lawyer will tear them a new one if anyone gets injured due to the emergency button not working properly.
Did you hit the Emergency-Activate button of the Emergency-Stop button? LOL
I guess I forgot that part of the emergency protocol expanded edition. thanks. Is that on page 399 of the Willy Wonka manual? Section 42 b subparagraph 24 of the annotated and revised edition which clearly states…In case of emergency… PULL the F"ING Plug!!!
On my Avid CNC you couldn’t operate the machine the first time after turning it on without resetting the E-Stop.
I have my Gen 2 Elite WW set setup to where all I need to do is add the spindle. But reading this post is really giving me serious cause for concern. The last thing I want is for the e-stop button to fail and like Robert said, this is incredibly dangerous. Any product safety attorney would have a field day with this. For the money spent, you’d figure the Redline and OF would have worked out these bugs. I’ll know more in the next few days.
There is a related issue going on in another posting about the VFD voltage for American users at 240+ V causing an issue where the machine locks up and unresponsive. New trouble, very dangerous