Greetings! Newbie to this cool site!
I have just completed "training
" on a Z Bavelloni EGAR 450N, HUGE BEASTIE!
I used to work in a metal machine/fab shop so I'm not exactly a novice at fabrication with a cnc. But in those days it was all lines of code, now I have this state of the art EASYCAD and CAM program that really make setup a snap.
SO! the first peice my boss asks me to do is an hourglass shaped tubdeck cutout and polish to A PROFILE (3/8" ease). We also have a digitizer
wich we are still in the learning process on but moral of the story is that the elements all came together with that cursed red box, inicating an angle not a radius. There were over 50 radius elements in the template, lots of red dots.
Now I realize that you're supposed to set a radius in each angle but HERE"S the catch: the radii were so large that putting a 3" radius in each one would not work so I had to choose various sizes.
THEN I go into CAM after spending 4 hours on making this drawing pretty, perfect, and angle free when it computes the radius path< tool path
ok one error no prob
So I go back and set minimum radius size first 3 then 4 then 10 then 20
none work BUT when I did all 20 I got a new more sinister error
radius too LARGE!!!!!!!!
is there such a thing??????
Frustrated to death we decided to do it by hand after all, cut out on WIZARD
(manual cnc my boss calls it)
had it done in 6 hours
PLEASE TELL ME HOW A RADIUS CAN BE TOO LARGE for a 22mm mill (fingerbit)
THOTH-I thought I'd heard the 320 ran easycad as well, any ideas?
prob something very simple I overlooked, but ran outta time.
CONVEX SAW ROOOOOCCCCKKKKS!!!!!
thanks for reading!!!