Need Help!- No rapid 'problem'

[Tom Curran]

Hello, all. I am new to CamSoft, coming from an old Tree vertical mill, which now has a Camsoft control on it.

I am having good results, but am still have much of my learning curve ahead of me.

Here is my problem:
When I call out a rapid move, my machine travels as if it was in feed mode. Really slooow. Not knowing enough about this program, I am not sure if it's my toolpath writing or my machine parameters.

also, when calling oiut an M6, the spindle takes forever to retract.

Here is a short program I wrote to drill some holes. No where do I see a rapid command. Do I need to specify rapid when creating toolpath, then feed?

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N10 T18 M6
N20 G90 S2000 M3
N30 G83 X.469 Y-.5 Z-.6 R.1 F8.
N40 X3.469
N50 X4.406
N60 X7.406
N70 X8.343
N80 X11.343
N90 X12.28
N100 X15.28
N110 Y-2.5
N120 X12.28
N130 X11.343
N140 X8.343
N150 X7.406
N160 X4.406
N170 X3.469
N180 X.469
N190 M30
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Thanks, Tom

[Karl_T]

Well, your program has no G0 - rapid moves.
Depending on how M6 and G83 was written, they may contain rapid moves.

Test your machine with a G0 move. If you want to go faster, change the maximum speed in CNCsetup. You need to watch for performance issues with your steppers or servos when making changes here.


There is also a RAPIDSPEED command so you can change the maximum speed in any of your macros. I'd do a search on your .cbk for this command to see if this is used anywhere.

Karl

[Tom Curran]

Karl, thanks for your help.
.
I'll check my CNC setup.

I will also run a program with rapids in it to see what happens.

Tom