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lead1515 z axis surfacing issue

Discussion in 'CNC Mills/Routers' started by Chris Van Roekel, Apr 19, 2024.

  1. Chris Van Roekel

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    Wow, total newbie here and Im trying to surface my spoil board.... I used the widget to start the job, unfortunately the z axis seems to want to just dig into the board. Its not running the "project" correctly and I have tried restarting everything. Im hoping this is a simple fix... All homing switches are working and I have cut other small projects without issues. Ive looked through the forums and havent found someone with a similar problem yet. Any advice is greatly appreciated.
     
  2. Alex Chambers

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    Please can you confirm that, when you jog;

    X +ve moves the tool to the right,
    Y +ve moves the tool to the back,
    Z +ve moves the tool up,
    You homed the machine,

    What controller set up do you have, if it's a blackbox did you upload a machine profile?

    Alex.
     
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    Same question from me:
    1) machine profile loaded (So jogging 10mm moves 10mm?)

    and also more importantly:
    2) remembered to SetZero before starting job?
     
  4. Chris Van Roekel

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    1) machine profile loaded (So jogging 10mm moves 10mm?)


    and also more importantly:
    2) remembered to SetZero before starting job?[/QUOTE]

    So after I use the probe widget, set to zero? doesnt using the probe set your surface to zero? When looking at the Z axis in the control software it measured correctly after probing, but I probe with the dust shoe off... Ill then lift the z axis by an inch or so to reinstall the dust shoe, but maintaing the surface zero and then run the job
     
  5. Chris Van Roekel

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    Here's a coupke of videos of what it's doing. Hopefully it's just a widget error? The one with the dust boot I noticed it was bottoming out so I moved the router down... but in the one without the boot, you can see it's just going as far down as it can without moving and other axis
     

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  6. Chris Van Roekel

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    The setting for the probe was set at 20mm instead of the actual 9mm it physically is. Problem solved. Thanks gents!
     

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