[DaveQueener]

Hi Gentlemen,

I'm a newby with v24Pro, but I've been able to do a good deal of pocketing over the last couple of weeks. One problem that I am having is that whenever I try to do either a circular profile or a circular pocket, the code I am generating is not getting the Centurion V controller on my mill to do circular interpolation--a few x and z axis moves and that is it. I tried breaking the geometry of my full circle up in four quadrants--and still no joy.

Here's a sample of some code for a simple .434 radius circular pocket:

(Knuckle Hole)
(MACH_FILE=3AXVMILL.MCH)
(MTOOL T2 S1 D0.25 H1.375 DIAM_OFFSET 2 = 0.125)
(SBOX X0. Y-4.737 Z-1.215 L7.435 W0. H0.)
(END PREDATOR NC HEADER)
%
O100 (PROGRAM NUMBER)
(PROGRAM NAME - L-105 MAIN & SIDE RODS JIG 1)
(POST - CENTURION 5)
(DATE - THU. 12/20/2012)
(TIME - 08:58PM)
N01 G00 G17 G20 G32 G40 G50 G69 G80 G90
N02 T2 M06
N03 S3758 M03
N04 X6.7387 Y-1.673
N05 G43 H2 Z0.5
N06 G01 Z-0.0585 F30.0688
N07 G17 G03 X6.7387 Y-1.673 R0.0587
N08 G01 X6.8637
N09 G03 X6.8637 Y-1.673 R0.1837
N10 G01 X6.9887
N11 G03 X6.9887 Y-1.673 R0.3087
N12 G00 Z0.5
N13 X6.7387
N14 Z0.4415
N15 G01 Z-0.117 F30.0688
N16 G03 X6.7387 Y-1.673 R0.0587
N17 G01 X6.8637
N18 G03 X6.8637 Y-1.673 R0.1837
N19 G01 X6.9887
N20 G03 X6.9887 Y-1.673 R0.3087
N21 G00 Z0.5
N22 M05
(END OF PROGRAM)
N23 M02
%

Any idea what I am doing wrong?

Dave Queener
Knoxville, TN

[dj_pigs]

:idea:

[Jerry3672]

edit your post on line 223

223. Break arcs into two pieces if greater than 180 degrees? y

That might do the trick.

[DaveQueener]

Jerry,

Thank you very much! That seems to have fixed the problem!

Cheers,

Dave Queener
Knoxville, TN

[Martin 007]

Read this and thought it might fix mine...(different Machine and post but mine is "N") Upon thinking... My issue already deals with it in part... 6 tooth gear with rounded ends (teeth)... Using the HS Pocketing it randomly will build tool path for those 180 turns into triangles. Some rounded as it should be.. some straight lines to mid point of arc.. has even done half and half...? Also not always the same teeth or same number of right or wrong... And then the fact that its still in tool path when messing it up.. before the post has even been clicked... CAN BE so eager to find a fix I don't always think first...LOL