Originally Posted by
basskitcase
I treid doing curves as circular inperpolations instead of linear segments, but i got a bunch of crazy looking circles in my gcode when i loaded it into Mach 3. What settings would i edit to make Mach3 properly interpret my G-code?
Set your CAM to use the right Absolute vs Incremental mode on arcs as Mach3. It's settable on both, so the easiest thing is just to flip it on the post for the CAM to the opposite of whatever it was.
Cheers,
BW
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