jolson89
Plastic
- Joined
- Nov 30, 2007
- Location
- Pittsburgh, PA
Hi all,
Recently (well, not so recently now) we got in a brand new Hurco VM20 as business is expanding and our small VM1 needs some help. Anyway, after about a month of catching up on backed up orders and another month of calling, emailing and trying to resolve the issues with Hurco I am still unable to get the VM20 to read the programs without errors.
According to Hurco, the VM20 should use the same post and read the same programs the VM1 uses. However, this is not the case. When loading identical code into the two machines the VM20 always spits out the error message, "Cutter comp lead-in violates contour." The VM1, on the other hand, has no errors and runs the program exactly as it should. At first I thought it had something to do with Z ramp tool paths, but tried programming with all constant z level paths and still get the error. Second, I thought it was the i and j output for lead in and lead out arcs on tool paths (because the error always occurred on the first line of code containing i's and j's), so I tried straight line lead in and lead out paths and all that did was turn into some type of ~45 degree lead in and out paths that cut into my part where it shouldn't.
Needless to say, I have 10,000 lb paperweight sitting here that can't make me any parts. Any ideas?
Recently (well, not so recently now) we got in a brand new Hurco VM20 as business is expanding and our small VM1 needs some help. Anyway, after about a month of catching up on backed up orders and another month of calling, emailing and trying to resolve the issues with Hurco I am still unable to get the VM20 to read the programs without errors.
According to Hurco, the VM20 should use the same post and read the same programs the VM1 uses. However, this is not the case. When loading identical code into the two machines the VM20 always spits out the error message, "Cutter comp lead-in violates contour." The VM1, on the other hand, has no errors and runs the program exactly as it should. At first I thought it had something to do with Z ramp tool paths, but tried programming with all constant z level paths and still get the error. Second, I thought it was the i and j output for lead in and lead out arcs on tool paths (because the error always occurred on the first line of code containing i's and j's), so I tried straight line lead in and lead out paths and all that did was turn into some type of ~45 degree lead in and out paths that cut into my part where it shouldn't.
Needless to say, I have 10,000 lb paperweight sitting here that can't make me any parts. Any ideas?