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Trying to minimize rapid movements and lines of G-code

rtexer — Fri, 01 Apr 2022 13:05:43 GMT

I am trying to rough this part and my Machine is having troubles reading past block N99999. I am trying to minimize the rapid movements hoping that it will reduce my lines of G-code as well. Any tips or tricks to make it more of a continuous roughing instead of raising up all the time?

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Re: Trying to minimize rapid movements and lines of G-code

taylor.tobin — Fri, 01 Apr 2022 13:22:25 GMT

Good morning,

A few thoughts:

1- In the linking tab of your adaptive path, try increasing your staydown level. This should cut down on rapid movements.
2- You have your Maximum Roughing Stepdown and Fine stepdown both set to the same relatively tiny value. Is this intentional? Depending on the material you are working with, increasing your maximum stepdown by a few orders of magnitude will significantly cut down on your total lines of code.
3- Also material and machine dependent but in some cases enabling milling 'both ways' will cut down on program code length...

Best regards, T

Re: Trying to minimize rapid movements and lines of G-code

rtexer — Fri, 01 Apr 2022 14:14:53 GMT

Thanks for the tips! I also adjusted the post processor to go from increments of 5 for the block sequence to increments of 1 so now I have 5x the amount of code I can run!

Re: Trying to minimize rapid movements and lines of G-code

seth.madore — Sat, 02 Apr 2022 14:54:17 GMT

Also, if you turn on Smoothing, it will reduce your toolpath file size from 1mb down to 596kb. Playing even further with that and tightening the tolerance to .0005" and Smoothing Tolerance set to .001", it brings it down to 485kb. Food for thought. Plus, it should help your machine run a bit smoother