My company just bought a Laguna Smartshop 2 (syntec controller) 5x10 router. It's been about 3 years since I used vcarve and I'm having an issue. When I draw a test piece, I set my material thickness (in this case .7245" plywood) , set zero to the top of the material and do my basic toolpaths and export using the laguna supplied post processor. My first couple of attempts resulted in the machine not doing step cuts and just plowing down through the material. Upon inspection of the G code, I dont any thing that looks like it's telling the machine to compensate for the thickness of the material.

Here's the first couple dozen lines of code.

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks a ton!
-g

(circle test 1)
(CREATED Wednesday April 03 2024)
( Material Size)
( X= 457.200, Y= 609.600, Z= 18.402)
(Tools used in this file: )
(T4 = End Mill (1/4"))
N6 G00 G17 G71 G40 G49 G80 G90
N7 G54
N8 G53 Z0
N9 (Tool: End Mill (1/4"))
N10 T4 M06
N11 M03 S17000
N12 G43 H4 Z38.1000
N13 G00 X228.6000 Y78.1050 Z38.1000
N14 G00 Z5.0800
N15 G01 Z0.0000 F431.8
N16 G01 X228.8761 Y78.0849 Z-0.0087
N17 G01 X229.1597 Y78.0209 Z-0.0177
N18 G01 X229.4406 Y77.9095 Z-0.0272
N19 G01 X229.7070 Y77.7503 Z-0.0369
N20 G01 X229.9470 Y77.5470 Z-0.0467
N21 G01 X230.1503 Y77.3070 Z-0.0565
N22 G01 X230.3095 Y77.0406 Z-0.0662
N23 G01 X230.4209 Y76.7597 Z-0.0757
N24 G01 X230.4849 Y76.4761 Z-0.0848