Waddya make of this?

[NEO Dan]

The ShopBot PRS Standard threw me a curve yesterday :(

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qeu4EacJfZU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOVBQkCFZQg


http://i111.photobucket.com/albums/n139/its-loud-dude/Area51/Axis_v2_preview.jpg
http://i111.photobucket.com/albums/n139/its-loud-dude/Area51/Axis_v2_path.jpg

[danhamm]

Double set of lines, and it cuts them at your depth setting 2 times...

[gc3]

lets see the .crv or .sbp file

[MogulTx]

Quite possibly missed steps. What did you tell it for a bit? What was your plunge depth and machining speed?

How many lines of code and how many megs/gigs of ram do you run? Was it really hot in your shop? ( as in, did something on the computer have a burp because it was a little TOO warm?)

I saw some problems like this with a 200-300,000 line project. I THINK it was due to processor speed and RAM. I upped my RAM to 4GB from .5GB and have not seen the problem recur. I HAVE seen some other issues when the shop is extremely hot- as it is today. I open up the case for the computer and put a large fan a few feet away to keep it "cool enough".

I have a 2008 PRS Standard. and I now run PW 3.0. If you want to send the text file, I would be happy try to cut it in some scrap and see what it does on my machine... it would be late tomorrow night before I can do it...


Best Regards,

Monty

[danhamm]

Watch the last video... it cut the outline at the right depth..then proceeded to cut it again, at the same place one level deeper...I have done this with duplicate lines...many times...

[NEO Dan]

Watch the last video... it cut the outline at the right depth..then proceeded to cut it again, at the same place one level deeper...I have done this with duplicate lines...many times...

Hi Dan,
That's not the issue it's coded to cut in two passes because I wanted to avoid putting too much pressure on the work piece. In that operation the problem is that the cut is shifted down the X axis a bit.

[NEO Dan]

Quite possibly missed steps. What did you tell it for a bit? What was your plunge depth and machining speed?

How many lines of code and how many megs/gigs of ram do you run? Was it really hot in your shop? ( as in, did something on the computer have a burp because it was a little TOO warm?)

I saw some problems like this with a 200-300,000 line project. I THINK it was due to processor speed and RAM. I upped my RAM to 4GB from .5GB and have not seen the problem recur. I HAVE seen some other issues when the shop is extremely hot- as it is today. I open up the case for the computer and put a large fan a few feet away to keep it "cool enough".

I have a 2008 PRS Standard. and I now run PW 3.0. If you want to send the text file, I would be happy try to cut it in some scrap and see what it does on my machine... it would be late tomorrow night before I can do it...


Best Regards,

Monty

I think you might be onto something as the PC is in a closed case and the shop was in the mid to upper 80's, I'll have a through look at the file later tonight and If it looks like I didn't screw the pooch I'll PM you and gc3 about the file. The file is 30+ megs IIRC...

[NEO Dan]

OK so I've had a look and I didn't see any reason for the problems in the files themselves, however I have decided to slow things down a bit, I was cutting at 3.33 IPS and the edged were a little rough so I slowed it down to 2 IPS. The bits are Amana 45782 and MLCS 7729. I don't have regular access to the machine so I can't verify the PC spec easily.

I've put the crv file here. (https://skydrive.live.com/?cid=25586ae8216fdb6f&sc=documents&id=25586AE8216FDB6F%21213#)

Please let me know if you see anything wrong... :D