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CamBam help (General usage) / Errors in G-Code Halting Process

« on: March 29, 2025, 18:54:20 pm »

Once again I have hit a road block and struggling to find an answer. My Mill is a small 3036 GBRL driven by UGS. My Code is derived by CamBam. I am attempting to machine a facia for my new lab variable PSU, the medium is 0.8mm MS panel. 

The first problem which causes a halt is the instruction T7 M6 (8 lines from the top) I'm not sure what is wrong  with this.

After that it continually stalls after a few seconds. What am I doing wrong?

I have taken the liberty of appending the code and the error output displayed in the UGS Console, hopefully some kind person will point ot the errors of m my ways.  

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CamBam help (General usage) / Out of my Depth here

« on: March 25, 2025, 16:34:36 pm »

IAs it says in the subject " of my Depth here" and I don't mind admitting it, What I am trying to do is to skim a few tenths of a millimetre of my spoil board to trim and level the surface. The spoil board is 300 x 360 and I have several Surfacing Bits from 12mm up to a frightening 32mm.

I have spent best part of today trying to create G Code in CamBam to do this but frankly I'm stumped. I think I'm right in creating a Pocket, but I want it to machine left to right, top to bottom but no matter what i do it wabs to machine in a spiral.

Once again any advice would be appreciated.

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CamBam help (General usage) / Errors with Elongated Slots

« on: March 13, 2025, 18:54:23 pm »

I have struggled on nearly all day trying to fathom out why my project kept getting kicked out of my Fox Alien CNC with UGS. Narrowing it down with time consuming shapes I found out that UGS is very particular with Elongated slots.
The shapes were from an imported DXF drawing created in SolidWorks and brought into CamBam something I have done successfully very many times.

In the end to prove my Hardware I created an elongated slot in Cambam which eventually worked without being thrown out.

Am I missing something or yet again am I the only nugget experiencing problems with the dreaded Elongated Slot..

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CamBam help (General usage) / Tool Change Codes

« on: March 13, 2025, 12:06:35 pm »

A good while back when sing Mach3 there was a G-Code process which halted the the current task, stopped the spindle allowing you to change the tool, hit commence and it would continue where it left of.

For the life of me I cannot remember the code sequence or more to the point I cannot find anything about it on here.  

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CamBam help (General usage) / Done something stupid

« on: March 08, 2025, 17:05:26 pm »

In an attempt to transfer my Tool Library form my my PC to my Laptop I stupidly copied the standard-mm.xml file into my plugins folder (pretty dumb thing to do )

Now I get an error dialogue box (see ascreenshot.png attached) Basically it is saying "Error reading file C:\Program Data\CamBam plus 1.0\styles\Standard-mm.xml"

Styles must be a hidden folder as it is not visible and the goodly Windows 11 will not let me un-hide to remove the offending XML file

Tried un-installing it and re-installing CamBam without any joy. Any Help really appreciated.

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CamBam help (General usage) / Help with Fishing Lure Mould

« on: August 29, 2017, 21:14:39 pm »

I feel as if I have made some real progress with CamBam in as much as with this project I have tried to imitate Bob La Londe's approach in his you tube video and I think I have done what I want to do but I don't think CamBam is generating the correct toolpaths.

Plus, it is not showing the toolpath layers at the right surface height. Somehow I don't think this right.

Could someone kindly point out the errors of my ways please. The .CB file is attached.   

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CamBam help (General usage) / Unclosed Shapes in Pocket Ignored Warning

« on: August 27, 2017, 14:41:52 pm »

This is driving me crackers ! I have spent a good morning and I have gone over it with a fine tooth comb and I cannot find any breaks in the Polylines. Select All - and Join (Ctl-J) does nothing for it. It point blank refuses to produce toolpaths for this pocket.

As always, any help really appreciated.


BTW is there any way to search the CamBam plus 0.9.8 documentation ?? 

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CamBam help (General usage) / Making a Fishing Sinker Mould (Mold) In CamBam

« on: August 22, 2017, 22:04:46 pm »

Hello all, I'm an Oldie but Newbie to camBam. I'm not stupid and I have made quite a few successful jobs using CamBam and Mach3 on my CNC Mill. What I'm trying to do is to sketch/drawing from Solidworks, export it into CamBam as an STL file and after that I'm stumped.

The item I am trying to make is a fishing sinker mould, a simple round half sphere mould in two blocks of aluminium. I have attached two images, one showing the STL object in CamBam which is a basic half sphere which I have been using to try and work out how it is done, and the second is a Solidworks image of what I am trying to end up with.

I have watched a video on YouTube but frankly the guy works too fast for me to follow what he does, and he is using specific shortcuts from a program I'm unfamiliar with.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Keith