Gray Posted November 7, 2012 Report Share Posted November 7, 2012 Forest Cobbler (aka Val) has put an image in downloads of a problem she is having with the flatbed on her Uni 300. Have a look and see what you think fellow members. I personally think she has had a badly machined flatbed...and Umarq should send her another to try.......Opinions?..........I have had to fiddle with the "Y" axis but not the "X" axis.....Looks way out to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lee Posted November 7, 2012 Report Share Posted November 7, 2012 why not just post it to the topic? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gray Posted November 7, 2012 Report Share Posted November 7, 2012 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevecoco Posted November 7, 2012 Report Share Posted November 7, 2012 Christ you vistool guys. On a gravo you could restart job again and do the bits not done justby resetting the depth to compensate for the unevenness of the flatbed. Might take a few goes, but your jiggered now you have taken it out of the clamp. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gray Posted November 7, 2012 Report Share Posted November 7, 2012 You could do it in Vistool too Cokes by exploding the group and just redoing the bits not done. But that's not the issue. I think Val has a bad flatbed. Somethings not right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StevenB Posted November 7, 2012 Author Report Share Posted November 7, 2012 It's certainly a serious misalignment and not what you'd normally expect. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vinny Posted December 6, 2012 Report Share Posted December 6, 2012 Richard saved the day again at U-marq. Great customer service. Thanks again Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StevenB Posted December 18, 2012 Author Report Share Posted December 18, 2012 Happy Christmas fellow vistoolers from me & the vistool lady Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gray Posted May 15, 2013 Report Share Posted May 15, 2013 Today I are be mostly enjoying the new pen attachment for my Uni 300. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StevenB Posted May 15, 2013 Author Report Share Posted May 15, 2013 Cool, share a pic of it if you like Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gray Posted May 15, 2013 Report Share Posted May 15, 2013 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPKYCNGufuA Bloody awful music. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StevenB Posted May 15, 2013 Author Report Share Posted May 15, 2013 You said you were doing it on a universal - I can see a Gem engraving a pen any time I like in my own shop... and without the bloody awful music! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gray Posted May 16, 2013 Report Share Posted May 16, 2013 I only showed that to illustrate the attachment. I didn't realise you wanted to get off on a pic of it fitted to a 300....... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simes Posted May 19, 2013 Report Share Posted May 19, 2013 UNI- 350 Anyone know what "List Index Out of Bounds" means? Also, "You Must define a process for each manufacturing layer"? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StevenB Posted May 19, 2013 Author Report Share Posted May 19, 2013 Yes. I think the list index message means you've not assigned a process to the job, so the machine doesn't know what to do. Related to this is the define process message. Essentially, make sure that what you want to engrave is shown on screen in black (engraving layer) rather than blue (design layer). I hope this helps, I can flesh out more details if required when I'm back in the shop tomorrow with the software in front of me, rather than working from memory! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CotswoldEngraver Posted May 19, 2013 Report Share Posted May 19, 2013 UNI- 350 Anyone know what "List Index Out of Bounds" means? Also, "You Must define a process for each manufacturing layer"? Steven is right. This occurs when you click open at the start screen to load a job but then actually open and load a template, vistool is looking for a drawing and you have a template loaded. If you then enter some text and try to engrave it the 'list index out of bounds' fault occurs. Hope this makes sense. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simes Posted May 20, 2013 Report Share Posted May 20, 2013 Thanks, It makes sense but it is a black engraving layer and within the engraving layer? A bit weird. I'll look again at a reasonable hour! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gray Posted May 20, 2013 Report Share Posted May 20, 2013 I've got a couple of files on here that do that. .sdt files, so I thought I would save them as .sdr files. Makes no difference still get the same message. I think the only answer is start again. Simes what the hell are you doing on here at that ungodly hour.......are you an insomniac? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simes Posted May 20, 2013 Report Share Posted May 20, 2013 I've got a couple of files on here that do that. .sdt files, so I thought I would save them as .sdr files. Makes no difference still get the same message. I think the only answer is start again. Simes what the hell are you doing on here at that ungodly hour.......are you an insomniac? I've been playing around a bit and found that I don't have the problem if I save as *.sdr files. However, I have another problem. The machine is not finding center accurately in the Y axis. I have checked the the main jig beam is correct and yet the only solution I can find is to adjust the "Work Space Position" setting by -2.5mm in the Y axis. However, this has to be reset on every new job! I'm puzzled how it could lose 2.5mm just like that! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StevenB Posted May 20, 2013 Author Report Share Posted May 20, 2013 I assume from what you've said that when you do ALT+W that the workspace position is in the centre by default, and from there you find that you're having to manually adjust it to make it line up correctly? Is the machine set to the correct overall workspace dimensions or has this become corrupted? I think this is 132 x 240mm on my universal 300, assume it will be the same on yours? If this is correct, then I perhaps it could be mechanical rather than software related? Has the machine made any odd noises, such as stepper motors grinding or jamming? Is it homing correctly? Not sure I can think of anything else to look at off the top of my head. Keep us informed as to how you are doing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CotswoldEngraver Posted May 20, 2013 Report Share Posted May 20, 2013 I've got a couple of files on here that do that. .sdt files, so I thought I would save them as .sdr files. Makes no difference still get the same message. I think the only answer is start again. Simes what the hell are you doing on here at that ungodly hour.......are you an insomniac? I've been playing around a bit and found that I don't have the problem if I save as *.sdr files. However, I have another problem. The machine is not finding center accurately in the Y axis. I have checked the the main jig beam is correct and yet the only solution I can find is to adjust the "Work Space Position" setting by -2.5mm in the Y axis. However, this has to be reset on every new job! I'm puzzled how it could lose 2.5mm just like that! My CX4 did exactly the same thing, went out of centre by -2.5mm in the Y axis. Could never work out how this happened and how to rectify it. Had to save this adjustment in to the new drawing setting of the default set up so I wouldn't have to set it in to every new job. This happened all of a sudden one day and have never been able to work out why so have just lived with it. Y offset at -2.5mm ~ same as yours, is this a coincidence Simes?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simes Posted May 20, 2013 Report Share Posted May 20, 2013 That's interesting? I'll mention it wen I speak to mike tomorrow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gray Posted May 21, 2013 Report Share Posted May 21, 2013 There is no need to set the offset at every job. If you click on wizards setup and run through the options you can set the offset there and save it. But firstly how are you setting up the jig beam? Don't rely on the little ruler, mine hasn't been centred properly anyway. Choose a job and start it when the cutter moves to the centre position slacken of the beam clamps and drop the cutter down between the jigs the wind them together to close up on the cutter, then tighten the clamps, raise the cutter and send it home. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simes Posted May 21, 2013 Report Share Posted May 21, 2013 There is no need to set the offset at every job. If you click on wizards setup and run through the options you can set the offset there and save it. But firstly how are you setting up the jig beam? Don't rely on the little ruler, mine hasn't been centred properly anyway. Choose a job and start it when the cutter moves to the centre position slacken of the beam clamps and drop the cutter down between the jigs the wind them together to close up on the cutter, then tighten the clamps, raise the cutter and send it home. Thank Gray! I knew that but had forgotten. Thanks again =D> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CotswoldEngraver Posted May 21, 2013 Report Share Posted May 21, 2013 Choose a job and start it when the cutter moves to the centre position slacken of the beam clamps and drop the cutter down between the jigs the wind them together to close up on the cutter, then tighten the clamps, raise the cutter and send it home. If you do that on mine the table is out by 2.5mm The only way to set the table to zero was to set up the -2.5mm offset in the wizard as you mentioned. For every job that uses centre vice the offset is -2.5mm and then the table would be at zero with the work space set to top left. Never worked out why it did this, just lived with it. Our lovely new Universal is spot on! =D> =D> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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