Just my intro post so I don't get rejected as a spambot

Didn't find any intro places on the board

Have just bought a little mini mill for engraving sign work and am trying to get write to work.

John

Hi John,

Welcome to the forum.
The usual place for intro's is here http://www.machsupport.com/forum/index.php/topic,2475.0.html but who cares, it is just nice to have another member.

Are you still having problems with the Write Wizard or have you got it sorted now ?

Tweakie.

Hi Tweakie

Still having problems, guess user generated with write not generating x and y travel
G00 G49 G40  G17 G80 G50 G90
G21
M04 S6000
G00 Z1
G00 G90 X0Y0
F1000
G00 Z1
G00 X0 Y0 I0 J0
G00 Z0
G01 Z-0.5
G01 X0 Y0 I0 J0
G01 X0 Y0 I0 J0
G02 X0 Y0 I0 J0
G02 X0 Y0 I0 J0
G02 X0 Y0 I0 J0
G01 X0 Y0 I0 J0
G00 Z1
G00 Z1
G00 X0 Y0 I0 J0
G00 Z0
G01 Z-0.5
G02 X0 Y0 I0 J0
G02 X0 Y0 I0 J0
G02 X0 Y0 I0 J0
G02 X0 Y0 I0 J0
G02 X0 Y0 I0 J0
G00 Z1
G00 X0 Y0
M30
This makes sense to me up to line 8
then the code is all zeros.
no quite sure why it is using i and j on a g1 but I guess they are offset codes so you can use them
in straight lines as well as curves.
I'm not really sure about the G90 where it is - I thought the absolute instruction would not work
with the I and J relative instructions.
will keep playing as I have time - still waiting on a couple of parts for my mill as it got
damaged in transit so haven't got it set up yet.

Will take this over to a more related topic if I keep having problems as it doesn't fit here

John

Hi John,

Sorry for not replying but I really have no idea what is going wrong. I have not seen this problem before, the write wizard always runs fine for me.

Sorry. 

Tweakie.