Fails to produce G Code File for Flow Waterjet

Problems and questions
1

I am trying to get SheetCAD Ver 4.1.41 to produce G Code files for a Flow Waterjet Pro. I get a text file that contains a list of coordinate values with no line numbers or any letters at all. Below is a snippet from the file.

0.0000 0.0000 0.0000 0
0.7213 1.1710 -0.2346 3
0.6662 1.1850 -0.1637 3
0.6453 1.2200 0.0230 3
0.6069 1.3650 0.0000 3
1.1772 1.3650 0.0000 3
1.1772 1.1275 0.2475 3
1.1772 0.6225 0.0000 3
1.1772 0.3850 0.0000 3
0.6069 0.3850 0.1301 3

I then selected a Bridgeport mill and below is a snippet of the file for it:

N0010 G70 G75 G40 G90;
N0020 ;, Part: Beer Opener)
N0030 F25.;
N0040 ;, Process: Inside Offset, CUTOUT, T1: Jet tool
N0050 ;,Jet tool
N0060 M6 T1;
N0070 G00 Z0.5000;
N0080 X0.7213 Y1.1710;
N0090 Z0.1181;
N0100 F4.;
N0110 G02 X0.6662 Y1.1850 Z0.0591 I0.7078 J1.2336;
N0120 F25.;
N0130 X0.6453 Y1.2200 I0.7078 J1.2336;
N0140 G03 X0.6069 Y1.3650 I-0.9512 J0.8750;

This file will come a lot closer to running than the first.

Any help on getting the Flow Waterjet file to work will be appreciated.

Phil Wagoner

2

Hi Phil,

That post is designed to work with a program called makeord which takes the coordinates and converts them to the Omax ‘ord’ file format. Does your machine accept g-code? If so could you post some samples.

3

The following program cuts a circle. It was made to test the machine.

%
P100
N1 G09
N2 G92X0.Y0.Z0.
N3 M13
N4 M08
N5 M03
N6 G4F5
N7 M07
N8 G00X1.Y0.
N9 G01Z0.F20
N10 M09
N11 G4F0
N12 M11
N13 G4F0
N14 G02X-1.Y0.I-1.J0.
N15 G02X1.Y0.I1.J0.
N16 M12
N17 G4F0
N18 M10
N19 G4F0
N20 G01Z0.25F20
N21 M08
N22 M05
N23 M14
N24 G00X0.Y0.
N25 G01Z0.F20.
N26 M30

This code was generated in BobCad. If you wish, I can send you a list of the ‘M’ code functions for our waterjet.

Ver. 4.0 crashed because it could not find the ‘makeord’ program. Ver 4.1 did not crash and produced the code I included in the first post.

Thanks for the help.

Phil Wagoner