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SketchUcam Producing only Zig Zag code nothing else?

Discussion in 'SketchUcam Help' started by Wazzer, May 17, 2015.

  1. Wazzer

    Wazzer New Member

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    Hi Guys

    I am new here so please be gentle!!

    I have recently finished building a new CNC gantry router and have been very excited to get it up and running. Its a monster Greenbull 6x from Buildyourcnc.com

    This evening i did my first ever simple cuts and Sketchucam worked exactly as expected.
    I had some settings wrong but it did exactly as the setting told it to do so i was very happy.
    This is what the Gcode preview looked like , very simple but it worked just great.
    [​IMG]

    I wanted to try some new settings and drew a new sketch
    Nothing fancy just a new test
    this is what my sketch looked like
    [​IMG]

    And these are the Parameters i used

    [​IMG]

    But when i generate the G code and look at the preview it looks like this

    [​IMG]

    No matter what i try i cant get it to display anything differently.
    The pattern shown follows the Safe Area dimensions but that is all it will show.

    I am using SketchUp Make 2015 15.3.331 64 bit
    SketchUcam 1.2a
    Windows 8 64bit

    I am sure there is some setting somewhere i have missed but i cant for the life of me find it.
    I tried resetting the parameters back to default and that didn't change anything it still showed the odd zig zag pattern.

    Any help in figuring out what i have done wrong would be greatly appreciated.

    Many thanks

    Ben
     
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  3. Wazzer

    Wazzer New Member

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    I knew it was going to be something stupid!!

    Thanks for the pointers and to think i had already watched your videos and completely blanked that bit out....

    Thanks again for your awesome software and support.

    Cheers

    Ben
     

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