Desktop Mill Pen Project

This week I've been working a lot with G-code, analyzing the G-code from my lathe project and writing out what each line means. This helped me today because I was instructed to make my own G-code for our desktop mill to tell it how to write my name.

At first I opened fusion and tried to use the waterjet feature to trick the machine into writing instead of cutting, this didn't work, fusion didn't allow me to do anything with it since it was a waterjet tool supposedly going in a desktop mill. I then looked on google for some online graph paper and started working on there. I wrote my name in all caps using just straight lines since this was my first time using the desktop mills. Once I had my name written out I began to write my code and ran into some issues, when I tried to use the first code I had on the mill it didn't allow the pen to lift up to do seperate lines, the result was this.

I went back to troubleshoot my code and realized that Z3 was too high for the pen to lift up. Once I adjusted that to Z1.1, I went back for attempt number 2, which turned out like this.