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G Code error 11- help

Discussion in 'CAM' started by CaptainSawdust, May 19, 2019.

  1. CaptainSawdust

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    Hi there,

    Trying to cut my first piece ever using a CNC but had the attached error.

    error: 11 - Max Characters per line exceeded (then a line of G Code)
    Attached is a screenshot.

    Can anyone explain to me what's happened and how to solve it?

    Thank you so much in advance to anyone who can help.
    James
     

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  2. sharmstr

    sharmstr OpenBuilds Team
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    The issue is all the digits after the decimals in your coordinates. I dont know any machine on earth that can cut to that type of precision. How is your gcode being generated?
     
  3. David the swarfer

    David the swarfer OpenBuilds Team
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    agree, you only need 4 or 5 digits after the decimal point
     
  4. CaptainSawdust

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    Thank you both so much for your replies.

    I'm using MakerCam as suggested by Jay Bates. Can you recommend a better G Code generator? Would the Open Cam software create the correct standard of code? I've opened the G Code that MakerCam generated and every coordinate seems to be to 12 decimal places!

    James
     
  5. Peter Van Der Walt

    Peter Van Der Walt OpenBuilds Team
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    Of course, OpenBuilds CAM was designed exactly to handle our ecosystem
     
  6. David the swarfer

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    A long time ago this was supposed to have been fixed in MakerCam
    Rounding Float Values · Issue #4 · shapeoko/makercam
    with a pull request (PR6) but I don't see where that pull was ever merged. OR you have a very old version installed.

    Maybe you should open an issue with MakerCam and have this fixed properly at source?
     

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