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Can you start surfacing when using the wizard at any position?

Discussion in 'OpenBuilds Forum Help' started by grahamdvd, Oct 29, 2022.

  1. grahamdvd

    grahamdvd New
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    It may be me...

    But I started surfacing my spoilboard with the built-in wizard in control and decided it was too deep a cut.

    So, I stopped the job and deleted it and restarted it with a lesser depth of cut on a new job.

    I zeroed it at the position it was at and then loaded a new surfacing job through the wizard but with lesser depth cut.
    I assumed it would start where it left off but it went back to the original place id started? Why is this?
     
  2. sharmstr

    sharmstr OpenBuilds Team
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    Yes you can start at any position. Perhaps you only think you zero'd the new position.
     
  3. grahamdvd

    grahamdvd New
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    Ok thanks ill give it another go...

    Just been thinking......

    Also, when I jogged the machine to where i wanted it to start from and zeroed all axis's( bottom left corner), it started but the Y axis moved about 45mm so it started away from the front edge and I was left with a unsurfaced piece at the front?
     
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    sharmstr OpenBuilds Team
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    Correct. It does a pocketing operation. It will move over 1/2" the diameter of the bit. So you can either account for that when you set zero, or you can do a manual framing pass by jogging after the surfacing job is done.
     

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