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General Mach Discussion / Re: Lazy cam problems

« on: September 13, 2008, 02:22:28 AM »

Well said Vmax

bill

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General Mach Discussion / Re: PC wont shut down & Mach wont start......................

« on: September 13, 2008, 02:10:08 AM »

RC

uninstall you mach3 driver.you don,t need it when you work with mach3 on your office machine. use your xml from your work machine and
that way you end up with simulator.

bill

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LazyCam (Beta) / Re: Learning Curve ahead! Problem Solved!!!!!

« on: September 11, 2008, 11:56:32 AM »

Hey,Kristin

did you ever test run that file i did for you. and if you can post a picture of your mill.

thanks bill

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Brains Development / Re: New "Brains" Users guide is in the "Memebers documents"

« on: September 03, 2008, 03:57:58 PM »

Thanks Scott

bill

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General Mach Discussion / Re: "Generally" Speaking, Quoting CNC work.

« on: September 03, 2008, 03:52:57 PM »

RC

when running a one man shop you might consider the WIFE FORMULA. say you charge 100 for a finished part. take 50 and give it to the wife.will the 50 that is left protect you and the shop.
keep that thought in the back of you mind when you price a job.you know what you think is a fair price for your services and materials,then add somthing for the wife.

P.S. don't forget the girlfriend.

bill

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LazyCam (Beta) / Re: Learning Curve ahead!

« on: August 30, 2008, 09:34:38 AM »

Budman

my buddy has been upgrading some of his servers getting them all to rack models. he gave me one of these so i could put it in a atx case. supermicro h8dmi-2 motherboard with a cpu and
16gig memory. it sets one cpu complete so i can play with it. not bad for free. butt he won't give me any pointers, i have to learn on my own. i don't try to run mach on this.

bill

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LazyCam (Beta) / Re: Learning Curve ahead!

« on: August 30, 2008, 12:51:46 AM »

Kristin

you missing what i am saying . pull that 256 strip out and you might be ok. if your cmos and drivers are not up to snuff when you past one gig the memory managers have a hard time cache
memory between the strips and video when using drawing and cad programs.but your data and file programs will run perfect. one of my computers has a motherboard that can handle 32gig
and i have 16gig installed. it is triple booted with winxp home,xppro 64 and linux. the 64 and linux run great but the xphome has no chance.

bill

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LazyCam (Beta) / Re: Learning Curve ahead!

« on: August 29, 2008, 10:32:18 PM »

see that 1.2 gig that windows reports is a dead giveaway.you got work to do.start looking for updates .you will probably have to flash your cmos.look for drivers and windows memory patches.
if it is a store bought computer and not a home built one.it will have a bottom of the barrell motherboard and a lot of paper that say's how great it is. Go get em killer! Kristin you might have two
memory strips in your desk computer pull one out and try it.

bill

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LazyCam (Beta) / Re: Learning Curve ahead!

« on: August 29, 2008, 06:56:56 PM »

Kristin

you might have computer problem.what are the specs of your computer. do you have it overclocked.do you have big memory in it. if you have over 1gig ,take some out and
try it 1gig or less. there has been a lot of reports of motherboards using over 1gig memoy doing bad things to drawing programs.

bill

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LazyCam (Beta) / Re: Learning Curve ahead!

« on: August 28, 2008, 03:39:59 PM »

Hi ,Krisitn

I used l-cam 300.2 -- the tap file is for a 3/16 center cut end mill.
l-cam had trouble with your original dxf when doing some arcs.i opened it with cadstdlite and used the export feature to save as a new dxf.this works as a great filter for cad programs that have trouble
with l-cam. attached will be a tap and l-cam file to show you one possible way to do the part. there are many .also a copy of the filtered dxf.i gave you a little extra clearence with the slot.when i did the tool
table the tool  was set as 3/16 end mill -- dia .1875 -- f 5.0 -- s 10.0 -- depth .050 --.

bill