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I was trying to cut rosette circles in a spruce guitar top and used Aspire + UGS to do that. Used a 1.5mm upcut bit, 600mm/m feed rate and 0.5mm doc. The result was very bad. For example, one of the rings was set to be 106mm diameter and 2.1mm wide but the width turned out from 1,8 to 2,6mm.
I thought my machine needed setup so tensioned the belts, set up the v wheels, checked all the screws and calibrated X and Y. I’ve set the pots before.
Tried again but the same problem continued. I tried different feeds and doc, climb and conventional cut and so on but still didn’t work. The problem was not random, all rings were to tight at about 4 and 10 o’clock. The visualize option in UGS looks perfect. Tried 4 different versions of UGS.
So I figured I might give easel a try. I set the circle up to be 2.1mm wide with a 100mm outer diameter. And the result is within 0.03mm all over, very good!
Can anyone help me out with? I think UGS might be the problem.
What direction are you cutting, clockwise or counterclockwise? If you’re losing steps on one axis, then one diagonal will be widely and consistently off because the axis isn’t moving until long after it should have.
If you’re cutting clockwise and it’s off the most at 7 and 1 o’clock, it sounds to me like your Y axis is losing steps (cutting too far out in X direction). Same thing would show up at 5 and 11 o’clock if counterclockwise. Likewise, if it’s farthest off at 2 and 8 o’clock, or 4 and 10 o’clock, probably a loss of steps on the X axis.
What kind of tension do you have on your belts? I recently dropped mine to about 3 pounds to lift 1" at midspan, and it made quite a difference.
Thanks Joe! I found that info and tried it, didn’t work
Robert, I’ve tried both climb and conventional cutting. Haven’t measured the tension on the belts. The strange thing is when I make the cut in easel it’s perfect.
It seems like UGS isn’t the problem. I saved the G-code from easel and ran it in UGS and the circle came out just fine. So either it´s something in aspire or the post processor.
Yes I did. I’ve tried making the circles with arcs and bezier points. climb and conventional cutting, pocket and profile toolpaths. Doesn’t work and the same problem every time. Works like a charm in easel and with toolpaths saved in easel.
Tried that as well, same problem. Just tried another post processor in Aspire as well, G code arcs (mm) but the same problem occurred. Perhaps something with my circles is wrong but when I measure them in the software they are exact.
I can’t help you with Aspire, but I use VCarve Desktop with UGS2.0 for nearly everything I run and I have no problem with linearity of circles, squares or whatever. I use the Gcode_inches PP.
