Toolpath image

[md63825]

Could somebody be kind enough to run the program in the attached .txt file on a pc cnc code viewer program and provide me an image of the toolpath it creates? I keep getting strange toolpath arcs that should be in the XZ plane but for some reason are in the XY plane and am not sure why.

[hub]

Tried it in CNC sim.. didn't go very well..

[txcncman]

What in the world did you use to create this train wreck? I used NC Code Analyzer and had to stop after about 1000 lines of code. Almost every line with an arc move has an error on it. I have attached a screen shot. It is cutting in the XZ plane. Just has bad numbers for the arcs.

[md63825]

BobCAD. Fixed issue. Went into Post Processor and set arc centers to incremental. Thanks for looking at this for me and posting images.

[texaspyro]

I ran the program through my converter/optimizer program and told it to spit out an EMC compatible, un-optimized version... It is attached.

The program reads in the languages of about 30 different CNC controls and outputs a sanitized version that is in all absolute coordinates. All the various offsets, translations, rotations, etc. are applied. Subroutines and macro programming statements are converted into inline code. Various inter-language conversions are made. The output winds up containing only the most basic EIA gcode statements possible.

[ProProcess]

I ran the program through my converter/optimizer program and told it to spit out an EMC compatible, un-optimized version... It is attached.

The program reads in the languages of about 30 different CNC controls and outputs a sanitized version that is in all absolute coordinates. All the various offsets, translations, rotations, etc. are applied. Subroutines and macro programming statements are converted into inline code. Various inter-language conversions are made. The output winds up containing only the most basic EIA gcode statements possible.

What software is it?

[texaspyro]

It's a program that I wrote (or rather am writing). See post number three in:

http://www.cnczone.com/forums/okuma/...languages.html

[texaspyro]

I fixed my DXF output option so that arcs and circles in other than the XY plane work properly. Attached is a DXF file of the program. I specified that each usage of a tool appears on a different layer. Several layers are empty because a tool was selected, but never used.

I have found the "de-caff" 3D DXF viewer to be an excellent (and FREE!) tool for viewing 3D DXF files. It does require that your system support Java:

http://caff.de/dxfviewer/