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Building or Buying a Wood routing table.. Beginnners guide.. / Re: Industrial Machine CNC Help

« on: August 21, 2023, 05:16:58 PM »

Do you have the manual for this board or a link for it?

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Building or Buying a Wood routing table.. Beginnners guide.. / Re: Industrial Machine CNC Help

« on: August 21, 2023, 08:52:22 AM »

A square on picture of the relay board would help but :-

looking at what you have there you could use an old pc with a parallel port and just connect a cable to the relay board or you can invest in a motion controller e.g. Ethernet Smoothstepper or CS-Labs IP-M or one of the many more out there.

If you have an old PC with windows XP and a parallel port and LPT cable I would use that as it will run that without much messing about and if all is good swap to an ESS later if needed.

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SmoothStepper USB / Re: ESS285 motor "counts per unit"

« on: August 20, 2023, 08:48:25 PM »

It may be worth watching this video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gpqMM8jJy8

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Building or Buying a Wood routing table.. Beginnners guide.. / Re: Industrial Machine CNC Help

« on: August 20, 2023, 08:30:43 PM »

Hi Jeremy,

its better if you do it the other way around, post some pictures of the machine, control cabinet showing the installed parts and then we can see what you will need.  In most cases its not a big problem if its already been on a known controller.

Where are you based?

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Help please! Z axis not cutting the correct depth

« on: August 20, 2023, 08:21:02 PM »

When you look at the tool offset (lower centre of program run screen in pink) has it got a value in it?

What tool number (T??) and is in the first few lines of g-code?

Is there a G43 H?? value in the g-code?

When you set your tool did you have G54 selected in the offsets page?

Some pictures and the first 20 lines of your g-code would help.

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Mach3 and G-Rex / Re: Problem with Probe Z input

« on: August 17, 2023, 09:40:37 PM »

It sounds like a buggy script, post it here for us to take a look at it.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Help please! Z axis not cutting the correct depth

« on: August 13, 2023, 06:47:09 PM »

It looks like you have the datum on the bottom face in Vcarve.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Can Mach3 Do a simple loop to increment a variable?

« on: August 13, 2023, 06:38:23 PM »

Sorry for the error, I was thinking in Mach4 mode, I had forgotten Mach3 needs the square brackets.  How soon we forget lol

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Can Mach3 Do a simple loop to increment a variable?

« on: August 13, 2023, 11:00:04 AM »

You can call a sub to do the work.

E.G.

%
O0001 (MAIN)
#100 = 0
G00 X0 Y0
M98 P2 L50 (loop 50 times)
M30

O0002(SUB)
#100 = [#100 + 0.003]
G00 Z-#100
M99
%

Or

%
O0001 (MAIN)
G00 X0 Y0 Z5.
M98 P2 L35 (1ST)
G00 X10. Y5.
M98 P2 L35 (2ND)
G00 G90 Z10.
M30

O0002 (SUB)
G00 G90 Z1.
G01 Z-1.  F25.
G00 Z1.
G91 X-.003
G90
M99
%

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German / Re: Mach3 G31 / CSMIO/S / M31 - zweiter Probe Eingang ?

« on: July 25, 2023, 07:58:11 PM »

If you are short on outputs you could use a manual switch.