452 Ethernet Communication Error, CNCPC to Controller - Help! <resolved, "Man, everything is working great. ">

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When I home and jog the machine all axis work like they should. It’s only doing this when I run a file. This was the big issue I was having before.

I will be at the shop first thing in the morning and will grab those screen shots.

[cncsnw]

Do the errors only happen when your spindle drive is running?

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Cncsnw

On V4 the 452 error would trigger durring homing, after homing, when a file would start and it would go for a tool change. It’s was all the time constant. It wouldn’t always stop the file, sometimes in the graph view when the file would be running it would say error 452 below the 2d view screen.

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Update...

I tried reversing the direction of the Z axis and then changed the homing direction to negitive instead of positive. Then I had to change the neg / pos buttons in the vcp to function properly. Obviously when I change the direction the zpos when pressed it travels neg and zneg travels pos.
Everything seemed to be working properly until it actually went down to cut. Z traveled down to the position but went it started to cut into the material it traveled positive instead of negative to cut. I hope this is making sense.

All of my settings are the same as V4 in the axis config and homing. The funny thing is that on startup and homing all axis travel in the correct direction. When I am jogging the machine all axis travel in the correct direction. The issue of the Z axis traveling in the wrong direction is only when I am running a file. These files run perfectly on V4 and I am guessing its a simple fix for V5, just need to figure it out.

I've attached wizard screen shots and a new report. Let me know what you think.

Any thoughts?

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Update...

I tried reversing the direction of the Z axis and then changed the homing direction to negitive instead of positive. Then I had to change the neg / pos buttons in the vcp to function properly. Obviously when I change the direction the zpos when pressed it travels neg and zneg travels pos.
Everything seemed to be working properly until it actually went down to cut. Z traveled down to the position but went it started to cut into the material it traveled positive instead of negative to cut. I hope this is making sense.

All of my settings are the same as V4 in the axis config and homing. The funny thing is that on startup and homing all axis travel in the correct direction. When I am jogging the machine all axis travel in the correct direction. The issue of the Z axis traveling in the wrong direction is only when I am running a file. These files run perfectly on V4 and I am guessing its a simple fix for V5, just need to figure it out.

I've attached wizard screen shots and a new report. Let me know what you think.

Any thoughts?

You should not of had to change the homing direction, it should home in the positive direction for a router. You say it homes correctly but with which settings? You've changed so much now it's hard to follow. If you start the homing sequence and it does not travel UP then you reverse the direction of the motor on the axis config page, that's it. Also, you should not of had to change neg/pos anything on the VCP for it to function properly. If you jog an axis and it goes the wrong direction you simply reverse the direction on the axis config page during your initial machine setup. There's no need to change the button configuration on the VCP.

You have the axis direction for X and Y reversed and not for Z currently, is this how it was for the old setup?

Post a copy of your g-code file that you said you've run a 1000 times.

You have have contaminated your 5.1 with all these changes and you made and didn't need to. It's really hard to know now. I dont know what you did when you changed the neg/pos buttons on the VCP but that was not the correct thing to do. I'm thinking a FRESH install may be needed now.

As for your wizard settings, for future reference just upload the PDF file and not all the screen shots, you have no soft limits set for the Z axis (and no limit input) so be careful there and you do not need to set up limits for the 4th axis as it's paired to the 2 axis. Any settings for axis 2 are the automatically the same for axis 4. No need for you to set them when they are paired, the software knows this and they act like one motor.

[suntravel]

There is no need to change direction in the VCP....

If Z is moving up when pressing Z-, change the direction in Wizard/Configuration fot the Z Axis

You also have not set a soft limit for Z.

Uwe

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Update...

I tried reversing the direction of the Z axis and then changed the homing direction to negitive instead of positive. Then I had to change the neg / pos buttons in the vcp to function properly. Obviously when I change the direction the zpos when pressed it travels neg and zneg travels pos.
Everything seemed to be working properly until it actually went down to cut. Z traveled down to the position but went it started to cut into the material it traveled positive instead of negative to cut. I hope this is making sense.

All of my settings are the same as V4 in the axis config and homing. The funny thing is that on startup and homing all axis travel in the correct direction. When I am jogging the machine all axis travel in the correct direction. The issue of the Z axis traveling in the wrong direction is only when I am running a file. These files run perfectly on V4 and I am guessing its a simple fix for V5, just need to figure it out.

I've attached wizard screen shots and a new report. Let me know what you think.

Any thoughts?

You should not of had to change the homing direction, it should home in the positive direction for a router. You say it homes correctly but with which settings? You've changed so much now it's hard to follow. If you start the homing sequence and it does not travel UP then you reverse the direction of the motor on the axis config page, that's it. Also, you should not of had to change neg/pos anything on the VCP for it to function properly. If you jog an axis and it goes the wrong direction you simply reverse the direction on the axis config page during your initial machine setup. There's no need to change the button configuration on the VCP.

You have the axis direction for X and Y reversed and not for Z currently, is this how it was for the old setup?

Post a copy of your g-code file that you said you've run a 1000 times.

You have have contaminated your 5.1 with all these changes and you made and didn't need to. It's really hard to know now. I dont know what you did when you changed the neg/pos buttons on the VCP but that was not the correct thing to do. I'm thinking a FRESH install may be needed now.

As for your wizard settings, for future reference just upload the PDF file and not all the screen shots, you have no soft limits set for the Z axis (and no limit input) so be careful there and you do not need to set up limits for the 4th axis as it's paired to the 2 axis. Any settings for axis 2 are the automatically the same for axis 4. No need for you to set them when they are paired, the software knows this and they act like one motor.

I forgot to mention in my last post I put everything back to the stock setup. I have attached screenshots of the wizard, a current report and the file I am running for reference.

You have the axis direction for X and Y reversed and not for Z currently, is this how it was for the old setup?

- I am back to the original setup now. The machine homes and jogs correctly in this config. the only issue, It does not run the z axis in the correct direction when running a file.

As for your wizard settings, for future reference just upload the PDF file and not all the screen shots

- When I press ctr-p it askes me to print, when I hit ok it takes the screenshots of all the wizard pages but doesn't give me the option to save as a PDF. Thus the reason I uploaded like I did. This shortcut still did not work.

you have no soft limits set for the Z axis

- I was thinking 0 would be the limit I wouldn't want it to travel in the positive direct. How would you set this?

Thank you again for all of your help.