Re: Help with Visual Mill 3.0 and Sherline

Hi Bruce,

Can you post a short bit of the g-code you are getting from VM.
If we could see the beginnig part of the program with the "Z"
movements it may be easier to give help.

Matthew





--- In CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@yahoogroups.com, "buchnerb <buchnerb@y...>"
<buchnerb@y...> wrote:

> Since it is a free download I am attempting to use Visual Mill 3.0

to

> generate G-code for my Sherline CNC Mill. I am using TurboCNC to

run

> the G-code. The Turbo CNC is working just fine and seems to be
> interpreting code perfectly. The problem I am having is with the

post

> processor for Visual Mill. It seems to think I have a mill where

the

> table rises to present the work to the tool and generates positive

Z

> values to bring the tool to the work. I can manually go in and

search

> and replace the +Zs with -Zs but would like to identify a post
> processer that will drive the mill properly. Before I went throuh

all

> 50 or 60 files one by one to try them I wanted to see if anyone

else

> had solved a similar problem.
> Thanks in advance,
> Bruce Buchner
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