I am ready to cut my first piece. When I load the G code into Mach 3 I can’t seem to get my program to make the zero location be the actual starting part of the piece. The zero location shows it as in the center of my part.
My gantry is moved to the “zero location” from when I ran the break in procedure but Mach 3 doesn’t see it that way. What am I doing wrong?
The coordinate origin is wherever you set in during CAM phase in Fusion. Sounds like it was set to the center of the part?
Considering I don’t know what/where that was in the process I’m sure I did it wrong. The tool path simulation is correct in fusion, but my torch just won’t start in that corner.
Each time I load a new G code the X and Y coordinates show different homing numbers
I ended up getting my part to cut, but I never did manage to get the machine to read zero before starting. I’m going to play around with it some more
This will sound bad but, are you putting the torch in the 0,0 (corner by the laptop for most) and clicking the zero X and zero Y buttons in Mach 3? you can set the 0,0 anywhere you want on the table or steel. It uses your command to then determine where the cut will be.
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When I first started cutting Parts out I had the same issue. I was skipping the setup step all together and just simply doing a 2d toolpath. You’ve got to create a new setup and then you click on that part of the image where you want the 0 x and 0 y to be. Zack also brings up a good point in that you do have to zero your X & Y spot in Mach 3 wherever you want that to be. The two steps reference each other
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