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General Mach Discussion / Re: machine not cutting as simulation.

« on: October 14, 2015, 06:13:43 PM »

Oh. Ok. That sounds good. I'll give it a go and let you know what happens. Regards... Ronnie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: machine not cutting as simulation.

« on: October 13, 2015, 07:24:00 PM »

Thanks Fixxitt. I assume you mean follow the instructions on that page. Had a look at the first step, where it askes how far I want to move the x axis. Is 1 one inch? For instance? I'm just not game to change anything till I've finished cutting my stuff for the weekend. Would be a disaster if I couldn't finish it. I'll have a go when that's done. Regards... Ronnie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: machine not cutting as simulation.

« on: October 13, 2015, 02:50:39 AM »

Thanks fixxitt. Very nice of you to spell it out for me. I am in the middle of a project that I need for the weekend, so I'll wait till the job is finished, and then follow your instructions. I'll let you know how it goes. Thanks again to all who have helped. Regards... Ronnie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: machine not cutting as simulation.

« on: October 10, 2015, 05:39:57 PM »

Hi. Fixxitt. Yes. You are correct. It does move only half the distance. Everything I draw, I have to double the scale on Mach3. I have also used Aspire. Same thing. G code inch works. I've tried using a few post processors. Not sure if I've tried the one you mention. The machine works just fine. Would be nice to have this right though. Regards... Ronnie

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General Mach Discussion / Re: machine not cutting as simulation.

« on: October 09, 2015, 10:10:09 PM »

Steps per.2000. Velocity 600. Accel. 4 G,s 0.0103607. Step pulse.3 Dir pulse 3 All three axis are the same. Spindle is different in step 1 and velocity 120

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General Mach Discussion / Re: machine not cutting as simulation.

« on: October 09, 2015, 08:48:44 PM »

Assuming you mean in gen. Config. G20, G21 control lock DROs to setup units is not checked. And Distance mode is set to. Absolute and W mode is set to Inc.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: machine not cutting as simulation.

« on: October 09, 2015, 07:58:14 PM »

Hi. Gerry. Machine is v cutting a tree inlay at the moment, so will check when its finished. Where do I find that setting?

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General Mach Discussion / Re: machine not cutting as simulation.

« on: October 09, 2015, 07:19:07 PM »

Hi. All. Mach3 is showing G20 in the header. Native units set to inch. Motor tuning is steps per.2000 velocity.600 acceleration.4 step pulse and dir pulse.3. These settings are the same for all three axis. G.code inch is the only post processor I have found to work with this machine. It is a Stepmores. It is not listed in post processing options. Tried G.code mm. Machine travels excessive distances. Regards. Ronnie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: machine not cutting as simulation.

« on: October 07, 2015, 10:51:44 PM »

Hi. Gerry. Not sure what you mean. Native units are inch. Don't understand the rest. I just set it per instructions from Chinese, which is apparently pretty basic just to get it working.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: machine not cutting as simulation.

« on: October 07, 2015, 08:37:58 PM »

Hi. All. Thank you all for your help. Gerry? You're a genius.! Your suggestion solved the problem. Basically my setup works well. I'm very happy with my Chinese machine. Only other minor issue I have and don't understand is, whatever I design in Artcam comes out half the size. I always have to double the scale in Mach3 for it to be the size I've drawn. Also I usually have to anything up to 4 times scale to get the depth of cut in the Z axis. Don't know if others have this issue. I've learned to live with it. Would be nice to know why it happens though. Thank you all for your help... Regards.. Ron.