Universal G0code sender/Fusion 360 help please

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Alright guys I ned to figure out what I am doing wrong because lol I am running out of foam to work with

Project: Okay I created this cross in fusion 360

In cam I did a roughing and finishing setup and the posted them to generic grbl with g28 removed

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Now I open up Universal g code sender and here are my steps in trying to carve this

Roughing pass

  1. Toggle the machine to the work surface and zero the z axis on work surface
  2. toggle the machine up above the material and then jog machine to x and y position
  3. zero x and y position
  4. carve

Finishing pass

  1. once finished with roughing pass toggle machine over to work surface and replace the bit and zero z axis with the new bit on the work surface

  2. toggle machine above the material

  3. carve

Here are my problems:

When I do my tool change and toggle the machine above the material and hit send it starts carving with the wrong x and y axis and ruins my piece

I am not sure what i am doing wrong here I did notice that when i simply moved the machine over to zero the z axis I when I hit reset z it changed to 0 and the x and y stayed the same but when I raised the bit above the material with no x and y movement the x and y both changed to 0???

this doesnt make any sense and I think this is why my x and y were off when I hit send and started craving again

why did this happen??

how do I toggle the machine back to x and y 0 after the roughing pass is done? because it currently just stops where ever it finishes carving

any help would be appreciated thanks

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What version of UGS are you using?

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The nightly build clears up a lot of the silly homing issues I had with UGS.

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I am using 1.0.9 ugs but I am not trying to home the machine right i deleted g28 from gcode and am not using the return to 0 function

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I understand, I had some strange issues with the UGS 1.0.9. Your steps seem to be correct.

try this: http://bit.ly/1hftIhy

It is the nightly build. I use it for everything and have no issues with the axis losing themselves.

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sweet man is that the 2.0 version?

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Yep.

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alright so yeah all my steps seems to be correct though?

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They appear to be correct. Just like I do it.

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alright I will try it again I really like cutting on this foam I am running at 200 in/min lol thanks for your help let me try it really quick and I will see what happens

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seems to work so far got the roughing cutting now the visualize doesn’t work for me though:(

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I never use the visualizer, so no clue.

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it makes me feel like i have mach3 lol fancy pants!!

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ok roughing is done

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That is a whole lot of extra material you are cutting. you could probably cut cutting time down substantially by just roughing the cross with a little offset around the cross and then the finishing pass to come in and just do the cross as well.

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yeah the file takes about 16 min to do currently I probably need to shorten that a bit

but I followed my steps with the new usg and it worked great thank you!!!

I am on the finishing passes now and everything looks to be going great

your a legend lol

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Glad I could help!

I usually make a vector around objects like that and constrain my toolpaths to the vectors, cuts down on time a lot.

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I think I got this part squared away but do you see how it looks like it is centering itself in the material? what do i need to do if I want to cut it all the way out?

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I don’t use Fusion, but a third toolpath, profile toolpath, that goes through the material.

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yeah thats what i was thinking to okay lol and do you use vcarve?