Help Help Help Error 367!!!!!

[DSL PWR]

I just started getting error 367 Cutter compensation interference (G01 Can not be done with tool size) on my tm1. It rears it's ugly head on a G41

It first happened with a new program that I posted in onecnc, with the same post that I have been using for months. I manualy went thru the program and couldn't find any errors in it.

So I tried running another program already in the control that worked last week and as soon as it calls up G41 I get the same error!!!

What is going on? This has totaly screwed me!!

[Geof]

This error is telling you the Tool Dia entered in the Offset Page is too large for the distance of movement the G01 is calling for.

One way you can get this error is if you have entered Tool Dia's and have not zeroed them when you started using a different program.

[DSL PWR]

It screws up in the old program also, with the same tool that I used a week ago! I haven't changed anything in my offset pages for weeks. G41 works in other parts of the new and old programs. It just decided to screw up in one certain spot. When I switch G41 to G42 in the problem area and run the sim on the control, it works fine (other than the cutter is on the wrong side of the cut).

I just may lose my last nerve!

If you want check my posts. I've marked them where the control screws up.

[Geof]

I don't use CAD/CAM so this suggestion is based on what I have read. Have you changed any of the settings in your CAM. There is something called choradal height or chordal deviation; it controls how far the straight line approximations to a curve are allowed to vary from the true curve. A large setting gives you longer straight line moves that do not approximate a curve as good, a smaller setting gives a better curve because it gives shorter straight line moves. If you changed this setting it may make the G01 moves short enough to gice the Tool Dia error.

[DSL PWR]

I haven't changed anything in the cam, and the "old" program has been on the control, so even if I had changed anything in the cam it wouldn't matter. I can't even run the program that worked 1 week ago.

[Geof]

I haven't changed anything in the cam, and the "old" program has been on the control, so even if I had changed anything in the cam it wouldn't matter. I can't even run the program that worked 1 week ago.

Okay, around now you start looking for a concrete wall to bang your head against .

Have you turned power off on the machine? I have had funny things happen and they went away when I powered down and restarted.

Just a thought...what happens if you zero everything in Tool Dia in the Offset Page? If the tool dia is 0 you should never get that error.

[DSL PWR]

Well I found the concrete wall, and I beat my head against it until some common sense found it's way back in. It seems some stupid fat fingered idiot put a positive wear offset into the control. So when it would try to comp, the tool was already too close, and it would error out.

D'oh

That stupid neg sign get's me again! And of course I didn't notice it until after I made a fool of my self.

(Instead of the "I'm with stupid" smiley, we need a "I am stupid" smiley)

For the record I did power the unit down, and even killed the breaker about 3 hrs ago.

[PBMW]

Well, You ain't alone in having been got by a minus sign.....

[Geof]

At least you did not have the embarassment of making a phone call to the dealer and having them find it. You deal with TS&S don't you? Guess who got to laff at me.

[DSL PWR]

Yeh, I deal with TS&S, and thus far I have been very disapointed with their service. What can a fellow do when they are the only game in town? For most of my tooling I've been dealing with Edge Production Supply, and have found good service and prices. The only reason they had a shot is they deal with mitsubishi carbide, and I love how they warrenty "stupid" (ie: friction welding your parts after you do a 50ipm plunge, and blow up your inserts)

[Geof]

Yeh, I deal with TS&S, and thus far I have been very disapointed with their service. What can a fellow do when they are the only game in town? .....

You are in the Lower Mainland?

I have generally had good service. I don't need it often but when I do the response is sometimes within an hour. Of course being located 1.2km from their Vulcan Way address maybe helps a bit .

[DSL PWR]

I live in Ft. Nelson BC. Edmonton has the best shipping to here so that is where I do most of my business.