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23 May 2024 21:41 #301262 by sawdust
Afternoon All.

I recently built a cnc table. I made a plasma table years ago and had no issues, router adds a few more dimensions, now I am confused.

My issue is the cut path is an oval rather than squared corners. I use Kirimoto as my slicer, it shows square corners and the animation gives square corners. Move the file to my cutter and it also shows squared corners in the preview. When I cut, the corners become rounded, exception of one corner where the tool always moves to the next x y z start position.
I am including two photos, one is a cut track as shown on linux the second photo is of a different file and shows the actual rounded corner, opposite end of the cut is completely rounded.

Any thoughts?
 
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23 May 2024 22:58 - 23 May 2024 22:59 #301267 by tommylight
1 picture only.
And this is a bit confusing, racetracks are created by the cutter, so not a software issue, but rounded corners can be software issues, namely G64 Pnn where nn is the amount of allowed off track motion, so G64 P0.1 would follow the line with a tolerance of 0.1mm (or 0.1 inch if the machine uses inches).
You should add that to the ini file, startup G code, section and set the CAM to also output that before every part cut.
What version of LinuxCNC are you using?
Edit:
Round tools can not make square corners, so if the corner is the exact end mill radius, all is good.
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24 May 2024 01:37 #301270 by sawdust
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Went through the g code could not find a g64.
I am running 2.7.15
My photo is too large, will work on that.
THankyou for your help.
I thought of something in kirimoto that might make a difference but not certain exactly how it works yet.
 
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24 May 2024 02:15 #301279 by tommylight
For now, in MDI just type that before running a job, and if you stop the job do this before continuing.
Kirmoto, is that the online CAM thingy ?

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25 May 2024 03:03 #301369 by sawdust
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Thank you Tommy,

I now get all four square corners as shown in the cutfile
much appreciated.

David
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25 May 2024 10:21 #301398 by andypugh
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