CNC Shark Gcodes....

[Doug Rasmussen]

Hi all,

New to this forum.

My experience with metal cutting CNC machines goes back thirty years having owned six of them in my business.

A CNC Shark seems like a nice machine for small wood projects that I wouldn't want to tie up my larger machines for. The problem is nobody seems to know where to find a listing of the Gcodes available on the Shark controller. Rockler doesn't have a clue. Even a call to tech support at New Wave only got me a sample program listing which only used a few Gcodes (the tech guy didn't appear to understand my question). To see if the machine will do what I want I need to know how it's programmed (I wouldn't be using Vectric software).

Anybody know where to find a comprehensive listing of Shark Gcodes?


Thanks for reading.

[Mike Heidrick]

Welcome to the forum. Did you try looking up the Shark Post Processor info? http://shop.nextwaveautomation.com/shop/custom.aspx?recid=26

[Doug Rasmussen]

Welcome to the forum. Did you try looking up the Shark Post Processor info? http://shop.nextwaveautomation.com/shop/custom.aspx?recid=26

Thanks for the reply Mike.

I downloaded one post processor. It gave me a little bit of in formation, but not all of what I need to program the machine using my CAD/CAM software rather than using the Vectric products. The machine I use to probe surface models generates Gcode as it runs over a surface, that code is what I want to run on the Shark

The Next Wave tech support guy didn't seem to think the Shark can be programmed directly without going through the included Vectric software. Looking through the online manuals it appears that may be true. This may be why there is no listing of the available Gcodes and their syntax.

[Gerry Grzadzinski]

The Next Wave tech support guy didn't seem to think the Shark can be programmed directly without going through the included Vectric software

Vectric software just spits out g-code.
So, you can use any CAM program to write Shark programs, or even write them by hand.

They probably don't want to deal with supporting people that don't know what they're doing, so they don't give out the info you're looking for.

[Doug Rasmussen]

Vectric software just spits out g-code.
So, you can use any CAM program to write Shark programs, or even write them by hand.

They probably don't want to deal with supporting people that don't know what they're doing, so they don't give out the info you're looking for.

Gerry, you could be right about not wanting to add more confusion by posting the Gcode listing. But still you would think they'd have such a list for those who wanted it, huh?

Is the Shark controller Mach3? If so, maybe all the Mach Gcodes are operable?

Thanks for the reply.

[Gerry Grzadzinski]

No, not Mach3. It used to be proprietary software using the ncPod hardware, but I don't know if they still use that.