Add Post prossesor for CNC Router running on NC Studio

[Anonymous]

We are running a Fayon CNC 1325 machine and using NC Studio AD 5.5.60.0. We have just started test cutting some files using HSMXpress which shows a huge amount of potential in helping our work flow.

The only post processor that worked thus far has been the opticut.cps. It worked fine for one test assembly file however when running a larger cut presented some unknown errors.

The first tool path which was a pocket ran perfect, but when the tool path changed from the pocket to the next which was  a profile the NC Studio control system came up with an error message that stated the path would run outside the machines limit, I use mechanical limit bypass to continue but the machine seemed to have lost or reset the origin point and started to cut far too deep, about 10mm past the zero on the z axis. Then the next profile toolpath wasn’t as deep but was out on the x axis by about 3mm and also had a reduced clearance when moving between parts so made some unexpected slices in the ply. All of which didn’t happen in the HSMXpress simulation so I can only assume it is an issue with the post processor we are using.

It would be great you could source or create a post processor for NC Studio. 

[AchimN]

Do you have some sample code which is running without issues on your machine?

I guess that your issue has something to do with G53/G28 retracts between operations, but to make sure i´d need to see a working program.

[Anonymous]

Hi Thanks, Yes, we have some sample code for a file that worked just fine. How should I send this to you?

[AchimN]

I finally received your files.

But, it is still not clear what causes the issue you described, the only thing i can imagine by looking at your sample code is that arcs are handled in a very different way as we do it.

So for testing please open your post and search for this:

allowedCircularPlanes = undefined; // allow any circular motion

and set it to this:

allowedCircularPlanes = 0; // allow no circular motion

[al.whatmough]

Moving to "under review" in advance of separating out the post ideas from the general software requests. This was a batch process. So, this particular idea may still be archived.