Camworks mach3 to shopbot

[garyb]

Thanks for the link Scott, didn't think to look in the manual, very well covered section
gary

[Blackrat]

aaah, never thought about the version of SB ...

can i send someone a sbd file and see if it has the same problem ?

or is it possible to load it up here and just change to .txt ?

[Blackrat]

this is the same file as above in the pics ....

[srwtlc]

Clifford,

It's the G17,18,and 19 (plane assignment) that is causing the problems. If you can change your post proccessor to not use those, or edit the file to not use them, it should work. Also, the very first line is 'O0001' and that gives a unsupported command message that can be ignored, but you could just delete it.

Try this file. I just commented out the offending lines.

[Blackrat]

wow scott it works !!!

but how do i change the post processor ? and more importantly that i can change it back again


i dont fancy going thru 300000 lines of G code searching out them lines ....

ta !! or shall i just send files to be processed to you ;-) *grin*

[srwtlc]

ta !! or shall i just send files to be processed to you ;-) *grin*

Nooooo!

I don't know anything about CamWorks, but it looks like you can edit post processors. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXe0s5IbpC4

Do you have a choice of some other posts to regenerate your toolpaths? If you do, try some others that output gcode. Generic gcode, fanuc, mach3, iso, norm_emc etc. and compare the code or see how they run if at all.

[Blackrat]

Scott !! thanks for the help !!

its working at last , after a few hours on the post processor i can get decent g-code to do the job !

still got a minor problem on 'circle being to small' but i am able to work around it

cheers !!