Next project is actually getting something to mill with a decent look to it, make sure I am not missing steps, etc. This was great since CamBam seems to want to auto-convert negative and positive values to what it thinks they should be, which was the exact opposite of how the Z axis was running, so I had a hard time trying to understand why I would start a job made with CamBam and it would move UP off the work surface and start milling in mid air!Īnyways, simply reversing the motor for the Z axis in Mach3 solved all of this. I finally got fed up, set everything back to the defaults for the script etc and just reversed the motor axis control in Mach 3 and all is working well now. I went throw a few trial runs that ended in panic as the Z-Axis mashed the end mill down into the pad after finding it twisting the gantry. I then modified the value in the script to be negative so it would search down, and neglected to realize the other values would then need to be changed too. Before modifying it, it would search "up" on the Z-Axis for the work surface. The next crazy issue I had was that the auto-set tool that it came with was scripted weird, so I sat here toying with the script trying to get it to work right as it seemed to be running in reverse.
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