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General Mach Discussion / Re: Pocketing and Island avoidance issue, need help

« on: April 19, 2009, 05:58:18 PM »

what material are you cutting?

Graham

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Pocketing and Island avoidance issue, need help

« on: April 19, 2009, 01:35:06 PM »

Try this g-code, it pockets a .175 island in a 1" dia

See if it makes things the correct size.  Your sample code was cutting octagons not circles, was it meant to be like that.

Graham.

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G-Code, CAD, and CAM discussions / Re: cad-cam purchase?

« on: April 15, 2009, 08:50:47 PM »

CAM-BAM takes some beating for the price, its free

Graham

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Problem with cutting quality when turning

« on: April 13, 2009, 06:14:18 PM »

Check that the encoder is not loose on the shaft, you could also try swapping the x & z motor encoders over.

Graham

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Share Your GCode / Re: Corrected problem of positive shift not being shown on DRO's

« on: April 11, 2009, 01:58:31 PM »

When you say you have a shift of .003 are we talking inches and is the position getting nearer to the home position every run?

Graham

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General Mach Discussion / Re: 4th Axis Probing/Diigitising How??

« on: April 07, 2009, 07:19:39 AM »

I take it you are going to fill all the holes and block in the open end.

Could be costly if the probe shot down the slot.

Graham

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General Mach Discussion / Re: new computer can't jog faster than 50 ipm?

« on: April 06, 2009, 01:18:43 PM »

Is the LPT 3 volt or 5 volt on the output pins?

Graham

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General Mach Discussion / Re: new computer can't jog faster than 50 ipm?

« on: April 06, 2009, 01:09:49 PM »

Have you copied your licence file onto the new computer?

Graham

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Rectangular Shape

« on: April 06, 2009, 12:52:18 PM »

Put a G61 at the start of your g-code, that should stop the rads.

Graham

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Parts are not correct size!

« on: April 06, 2009, 09:54:41 AM »

You don't have a g41/42 in your start up string in config do you?

Graham