Unplanned offset - error

[nailzscott]

I was running a roughing toolpath today on a small 3d project when I noticed that the downcut bit was apparently slipping down. I stopped the cut, tightened it, reset z to top, then ran the command to move the router home.

Then I restarted the roughing cut from the beginning, but the router started moving in the negative z direction. A review of the file showed something I had not seen before referencing what I believe is a second z. The file had some like XinHead2offset and YinHead2offset in each line of move codes.

I looked around and tried to find a setting that would fix this but did not find one.

I stopped the process, setup a different v-carve file, created the shopbot code - and it too had the same type of references as shown above.

This may be something simple, but I can't seem to find it. Nor can I figure out why it just started.

Anybody ideas?

Thanks

[evan]

Make sure you have the correct Post Processr selected when you save your toolpaths, ie: ShopBot Arc(inch)w/speed(*. sbp) NOT ShopBot Head2 Arc(inch)w/speed(*. sbp)

[nailzscott]

Yep, that's the one I use.

[nailzscott]

Evan,

Oops, you were right. I have a laptop and a pc, both used to create shopbot files. Somehow one had switched to the "Head2" post processor.

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction.

[evan]

You're welcome. I know you're not the only one to have had that happen... ;-)