Hello all,
I am just coming up to speed on both the machine and the program but I have one particular problem that shows up now and then. On three different parts, when I am creating a pocket with circular island, I am getting a different toolpath on the machine than I see on backplot, in all three cases plowing through the middle of the part. It seems like when I have a G2 or G3 command that is supposed to travel about 3/4's the way around a circular island with the island center as the center of the G2 or G3 command, the actual toolpath takes a shortcut, like in a counter clockwise circular path it goes straight from 12 o'clock to 3 o'clock, without going through 9 and 6 o'clock. I don't know if my Post is bad or there is a problem with the machine, or some kind of mismatch. I'm using MastercamX3.
Thanks, Keith