QuickCAM 2D - changing materials listing, strange circles
Posted: Tue 15 Apr , 2008 3:30 am
I'm a newby to this sort of work (only have had the CNC mill for 2 weeks) please be kind with the terminology.
Have noticed several strange things happening with 2D Design, been working through the PCB tut. When setting up the machine plan selected 'plastics/PCB' from the list, had to go away from the work and come back at latter time. Opened up saved file and re-started the machine plan, found that the materials selection list now different. 'Plastics/PCB' has disappeared - indeed no mention of PCB at all. Now have options like, wax, plexiglass, HIPS etc. Suggestions please.
Next problem, trying to do same exercise but this time on a laptop running Vista Home as its OS, same hassel with the materials list. Pressed on with machine plan. Got warning re Z axis exceeds billet size (billet is 1.6mm thick - thickness of PCB material currently using. Looked at previous forum posts and found one relating to similar warning re the X axis and reply noting that it could relate to the edge of the tool going outside the billet area - is the same or something different? In addition, when posted the plan out to VR milling (using Compact 1000) and ran the simulation, the program started cutting additional arcs and circles that I had not drawn in and totally ignored the text that I had added. Is this an incompatibility with Vista ? (previous work was done under Windows XP pro).
Have noticed several strange things happening with 2D Design, been working through the PCB tut. When setting up the machine plan selected 'plastics/PCB' from the list, had to go away from the work and come back at latter time. Opened up saved file and re-started the machine plan, found that the materials selection list now different. 'Plastics/PCB' has disappeared - indeed no mention of PCB at all. Now have options like, wax, plexiglass, HIPS etc. Suggestions please.
Next problem, trying to do same exercise but this time on a laptop running Vista Home as its OS, same hassel with the materials list. Pressed on with machine plan. Got warning re Z axis exceeds billet size (billet is 1.6mm thick - thickness of PCB material currently using. Looked at previous forum posts and found one relating to similar warning re the X axis and reply noting that it could relate to the edge of the tool going outside the billet area - is the same or something different? In addition, when posted the plan out to VR milling (using Compact 1000) and ran the simulation, the program started cutting additional arcs and circles that I had not drawn in and totally ignored the text that I had added. Is this an incompatibility with Vista ? (previous work was done under Windows XP pro).