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General Mach Discussion / Re: Cutter radius comp problem

« on: December 29, 2005, 08:29:28 PM »

Hello,
I got a problem when I use radius compensation, when I load the file Mach complains about:
'Cannot use g28 or g30 with cutter radius comp on line #56'
If I remove G41 and G49 then it works but I can't understand why it wouldn't work with the rad comp.
Please see following code:

// Roger

%
O1
G90 G80 G28 G40 G17
(NOLLPUNKT I INRE VANSTRA HORN UPPE PA BITEN.)
(TOOL 1)
(PINNFRAS TUSA 6MM)
(OPERATION 7)
N1 T1 M6
S9800 M3
G0 X0 Y0
G43 Z3. H1
M8
G0 Z2.5
X130.7468 Y-36.3036 Z3.
Z2.5
G1 Z-2. F100.0
G41 X131.4302 Y-42.2645 D21
G2 X44.4616 Y-32.0091 I-21.7351 J189.5675 F200.0
X44.4253 Y-31.9957 I1.0252 J2.818
X42.4812 Y-28.545 I0.9899 J2.8307
G1 X38.0785 Y-27.6145
G2 X38.3755 Y-26.5817 I7.3367 J-1.5505
X33.2157 Y-25.4324 I46.3412 J220.2095
X33.1782 Y-25.527 I-20.5635 J8.0964
G3 X38.0785 Y-27.6145 I76.5169 J172.83
G1 X42.4812 Y-28.545
G2 X45.9361 Y-26.2119 I2.934 J-0.62
G3 X131.5177 Y-24.6452 I38.7806 J219.8397
G2 X133.4214 Y-24.8631 I0.6287 J-2.9321
G1 X135.2884 Y-29.1499
G3 X136.9862 Y-35.934 I27.1152 J3.1817
G1 X138.2203 Y-35.7854
G2 X136.4469 Y-28.6997 I24.1833 J9.8172
G1 X134.9051 Y-23.6031
G2 X135.2476 Y-21.0378 I27.4985 J-2.3651
X30.0462 Y-20.021 I-50.5309 J214.6656
X26.9364 Y-27.6181 I-17.394 J2.685
G3 X136.3859 Y-44.3582 I82.7587 J174.9211
G1 X141.6076 Y-43.7691
X139.4445 Y-41.2862
G2 X137.954 Y-38.7736 I22.9591 J15.318
G1 X141.9404 Y-36.6857
G2 X142.3008 Y-14.589 I20.4632 J10.7175
X25.3426 Y-14.0856 I-57.5841 J208.2168
X19.074 Y-28.754 I-12.6904 J-3.2504
G3 X151.3828 Y-46.2697 I90.6211 J176.057
G2 X141.9404 Y-36.6857 I11.0208 J20.3015
G1 X137.954 Y-38.7736
G2 X135.3588 Y-41.7727 I-2.9986 J-0.0276
G40 X131.4302 Y-42.2645 I-25.6637 J189.0757  (added a G40 to this line)
G0 Z3.
X0 Y0
(TOOL 2)
(PINNFRAS 8MM TUSA)
(OPERATION
M9
G90 G80 G28 G17
G49 G0 Z0 S300 M5
N2 T2 M6
S8000 M3
G0 X11.6522 Y2.664
G43 Z3. H2
M8
G0 Z2.5
G1 Z-2. F100.0
G41 Y-2.336 D22
G3 X12.6522 Y-3.336 I1. J0
G2 I0 J-14. F200.0
X13.6514 Y-3.3717 I0 J-14.
G3 X14.7202 Y-2.4456 I0.0713 J0.9975
G1 G40 X15.077 Y2.5417
G0 Z3.
X0 Y0
M9
G90 G80 G28 G17
G49 G0 Z0 S300
M5
G0 X0 Y0
M30
%

PLease look at the line I added the G40 to and see if that hepls it

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Plasma cut holes question ( plasma experts welcome! )

« on: December 27, 2005, 06:48:01 PM »

I think you have a good idea! But I think if you are going to tap the hole you should think about drilling the holes... I have never tried to tap a plasma hole but I have cut plasma cuts on the mill. HSS Mills do not last long cutting a plasma cut...

Hope that helps
Brian

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Trouble with Mach2

« on: December 26, 2005, 12:09:16 PM »

I have never got a 300MHz to run Mach3.... I would look at getting something about 1 GHz to run the machine. We have been getting them for about 400.00 with out a monitor.

Hope that helps.

3664

Newfangled Solutions Mach3 Wizards / Re: Screens and Wizards

« on: December 26, 2005, 08:37:05 AM »

You are about 15 Versions back Please download and install the latest version. I think this is the problem...

Thank you and have a GREAT day

3665

General Mach Discussion / Re: wiring up MPG

« on: December 26, 2005, 08:34:39 AM »

You are going to have to find the 0 and 5 V power... Some of the breakout boards have the 5V power on them and some do not. I have hooked into the computer power supply in the past or testing...

The pins for the A and B channels can be hooked to what you have set on the ports and pins page. There is a tab called "Encoder" where you set the pins.
Hope that helps

3666

General Mach Discussion / Re: Risk of non isolated breakout board?

« on: December 26, 2005, 08:29:49 AM »

I have torched a pot or two I had a bad attitude about this at first.. I can have a new port here next day for under 20.00 USD. So WHAT THE HECK do I have to spend about $100.00 ... I burned up two ports in two years (Both were my bad)! But now I spend the money and I have not had one problem. SO IF you don't m ind having the odd problem from time to time you can save some money.

Hope that helps

3667

General Mach Discussion / Re: Stepper motors are still going at the incorrect speed. Need help with Mach

« on: December 26, 2005, 08:13:08 AM »

Sorry I just got back in... You are going to need the Mach3Mill.xml file in the Mach3 directory.

Thank you and have a great day

3668

General Mach Discussion / Re: mach 3 speed

« on: December 26, 2005, 08:11:13 AM »

You can run at 35KHz mode no problem. We don't like to have people just setting up if they don't need to have it...
The touch probe can be used for anything that you like... I have set up my probe here to center a circle off 3 points I have also make a wizard that will set the part rotation ... This will make it so you clamp the part down probe and CUT! The probe cycle will skew the coordinate system with coordinate system rotation.

I hope this helps

3669

General Mach Discussion / Re: Stepper motors are still going at the incorrect speed. Need help with Mach

« on: December 23, 2005, 06:42:31 PM »

Well the code looks good...  Could you send me your XML?
If you can send me your XML I will go over it and see if there is a problem.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Milling a cone

« on: December 23, 2005, 06:33:08 PM »

The P is calling the sub number... so P0100 is calling the O0100 sub.

Yes the Inc is ever half Deg but one Deg every time the sub is run.

VB is a very cool was to solve problems with making programs! If you have an Opp that you need to do over and over it is worth the time to learn VB

Have fun