Vcarve workpiece orientation

[phill05]

If you were doing lots of it the same way then you might want to change but if you are working on different layouts I would say leave as is, quick rotate is select all press Ctrl +9 45 left, Ctrl +0 45 right

[Earle]

If you were doing lots of it the same way then you might want to change but if you are working on different layouts I would say leave as is, quick rotate is select all press Ctrl +9 45 left, Ctrl +0 45 right

Surely that just rotates vectors that you have created on the workpiece it does not rotate the workpiece. When I looked into this originally I could not see or find (google) anyway of rotating the job/workpiece. It would be great if you could rotate everything on the XY Datum.

Earle

[Ger21]

Surely that just rotates vectors that you have created on the workpiece it does not rotate the workpiece. When I looked into this originally I could not see or find (google) anyway of rotating the job/workpiece. It would be great if you could rotate everything on the XY Datum.

Earle

You can use G68 in Mach3 to rotate the program 90°.

BUt my preference would always be to configure the machine to match V-Carve Pro. Having to rotate anything should be a rare case, rather than the norm.

[EddyCurrent]

Maybe part of the answer lies here; http://www.mycncuk.com/threads/8004-...ight=backwards
D-man, how did this conclude ?

[D-man]

As Gerry mentioned i reversed ports and pins, however the workpiece is now inverted and im getting narrow letter (test) also when doing to i get rounded corners, not sharp ones

[D-man]

ok so ive managed to get the T the right way up to where i want it.

will i have to do the steps per again due to swapping the axis, and also with the T being very narrow

[firetrappe]

Looks like your motor tuning calibration needs swapping over too. I'm guessing you've got different pitch screws on your x and y?

That should sort out the narrow letter problem.

Edit : Check your cursor keys for jogging from the keyboard too (hotkeys). You'll probably need to change those too.

Si.

[D-man]

Awesome, im running rack and pinion on both axis. however one is on a gearbox and other two on cncrouterparts drive pulleys

[Ger21]

You shouldn't need to change your jogging hotkeys, unless you've already changed them to a non standard configuration.
You will need to change your steps/unit, and accel and velocity settings if they are different for X and Y.

[phill05]

Surely that just rotates vectors that you have created on the workpiece it does not rotate the workpiece. When I looked into this originally I could not see or find (google) anyway of rotating the job/workpiece. It would be great if you could rotate everything on the XY Datum.

Earle

The Vectors are the workpiece!!