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General Mach Discussion / Re: Lightmachines Post

« on: May 02, 2007, 11:01:04 PM »

I think that you will have no trouble with that mill cutting AL

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Enable Outputs

« on: May 02, 2007, 10:55:56 PM »

You can have up to 6 of them and they will turn on from 1 - 6 with about a .1 sec delay from one to the other. To enable them you need to "enable" the output under the ports and pins and you also need to set the active low state.

Hope that helps
Brian

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General Mach Discussion / Re: MaxNC15 CL2 Mach3 working xml file

« on: May 02, 2007, 10:52:02 PM »

Thank you for the help and I think you will get a few Emails for your XML over time

Thanks
Brian

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General Mach Discussion / Re: step and direction spindle

« on: May 02, 2007, 10:50:50 PM »

Go with what works
 
The steps per unit is not that big of a deal... you need to know the RPM and multiply that by the ppr. this will give you the frequency that you need to set. I would set the ppu to 1000 and move the Vel to the number that gets the max speed and call it good.

Hope that helps
Brian
 

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Contact Probe

« on: April 30, 2007, 10:00:34 PM »

Yup... you need to look at RhinoCad

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LazyCam (Beta) / Re: Lazy Cam Evaluation

« on: April 30, 2007, 09:54:36 PM »

The newest version only Art and I have

Should be out at the end of the week...

Thanks
Brian

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LazyCam (Beta) / Re: Possible bug in Lazycam?

« on: April 30, 2007, 09:51:55 PM »

Well that look nice   hmmm I don't see where your error is

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Lightmachines Post

« on: April 30, 2007, 06:39:01 PM »

How is everything in NH ( I think that was you )

Mach3 as you know is used to run the machine not to make code like a Cam program. So I think that you are asking if we can make mach3 run the mill by just hooking up a few wires... Well it is not that simple I have looked at a light machines box and I can tell you that they will not tell you the pinout for the controller

So I think the best thing that you can do at this time is to look into getting small 3 axis board and change out the driver ( they are not that great in the first place)

Hope that helps
Brian
 

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LazyCam (Beta) / Re: Lazy Cam Evaluation

« on: April 30, 2007, 09:36:59 AM »

I can tell you that making that reply took me a ton of time O well I think that it needed to be done... Others had the same questions and requests ...

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LazyCam (Beta) / Re: Possible bug in Lazycam?

« on: April 30, 2007, 08:59:51 AM »

I have just ran your file here and it is fine...

ccould you please run this file and tell me what it is doing?
G0 z1.0
X5.0
G01 X10 F50
Y5
X0
Y0
X5
M47

Run that file for about 10 reps and tell me if it is out of position?  I think that you are going to find that the Y axis is moving its position (Electrical noise) OR that you have backlash in your screws...
To see what is going on please put a pen in the spindle and draw the path.

Thanks
Brian