wasted some exotic wood while trying to carve a juice groove in a cutting board, did this many times before but now the CNC is not cutting as per the file, the left and bottom distance matches the design, but top and right are 1/4 inch out of whack…redid my probe settings, updated firmware, tried different sizes on junk wood same things happening, not respecting scale and sometimes depth as well…verified that its square, its setup on QCW, redid spoilboard, everything comes out level…lost, any help would be appreciated
No the cutting came out the same, the top and right was offset by 1/4, had to replanned the board, so wasted 1/2 inch of it, been trying to understand why by using scrap wood, and getting same results…
Your toolpath is cutting ON the vector. I try to avoid that because it sometimes gives me unpredictable results. I’m sure this is due to my inexperience and not the software.
Still, it would be interesting to try reducing the juice groove rectangle vector by 1/2 the bit diameter and cut on the outside of it.
I think it helps to narrow down which side of the great divide the problem is on.
One side the computer/Vectric.
The other side Onefinity/setup.
Do you know what dimensions you want the center of the grooves to be from your origin?
If you designed it then you should know what is intended.
Then drop your NC code file onto https://ncviewer.com
you can turn on “Digital Readout” on the left side and “Show toolpath points” in the bottom settings then measure what your nc code is for the groove.
If it measures good then you know it’s not the computer/Vectric side. So look at setup on the Onfinity or configuration, etc.
If it measures bad then look to see what is wrong in Vectric.
It’s cheaper to check code like that than to run in wood. In fact I often drop my nc code in ncviewer as soon as I make it before I take it to the Onfinity.
i want the groove to be centered on the line of the rectangle which is offset by 25mm of the size of the piece, in vcarve 12 it shows it perfectly centered? tried nc viewer but will need to read more on it cause I don’t see the cut from the size of the material, tied again after re surfacing, and tramming, updating firmware, things are way off …
Hi Ken where do you see this? The design is pretty simple which is why I dont get, basically define size of board, create a rectangle with same dimensions, offset by x lets say 1.25 inch, use ball. Nose to profile .25 depth….. done tons like this and now it doesnt work?
I’m looking at the red toolpath line starting on the bottom left. I’m not sure but it looks like there’s an offset from x zero? Look at XY datum in job setup offset
