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General Mach Discussion / Re: What file extension should I use for Mach3

« on: June 03, 2006, 09:41:28 AM »

I think this is how ArtCam is picking the post... I would use the Mach2.cnc one. you will need to select all files in mach3 to get it to load.

Hope that helps
Brian

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Visual offset in tool/job display showing

« on: June 02, 2006, 10:37:45 PM »

Try changing the feedrate of the file to 25IPM... It is Set to 600IPM and that sounds a little fast... You could be out doing your motors...

Hope this helps

Brian

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Losing Position

« on: June 02, 2006, 04:01:49 PM »

What do you have for a pulsewidth under the motor settings? You may need to send a longer setp pulse for the drives...

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Acceleration calculations

« on: June 02, 2006, 12:37:32 PM »

The cyliner needs push with at least 2X of the force that is going to be acting on the chain...  3X would be better

Hope that helps
Brian

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Acceleration calculations

« on: June 02, 2006, 11:35:34 AM »

Put a spring on the chain that is pulling at two times the force that is needed to accel that load and you should be okay (The spring could be an air cylinder )

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VB and the development of wizards / Re: Wizard Startup

« on: June 02, 2006, 10:47:02 AM »

Put a  file named init.m1s in the directory of the wizard and it will run the code on startup

Here is one that I used in the past:

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VB and the development of wizards / Re: Using Arrays

« on: June 02, 2006, 10:43:47 AM »

You can't have a global Array But you can use the 1999 Vars in Mach3 To write to a var Call SetVar(100,1.234) this will set Var 100 to 1.234 and to get the Test = GetVar(100)  will set Test to what is in Var100

That is how I do global stuff in Mach3

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Visual offset in tool/job display showing

« on: June 02, 2006, 07:00:37 AM »

Chris if you could attach a samle Gcode file and I will see if there is anything in the Gcode file that could shift the file.

Thank you
Brian

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Resets, Reboots, etc

« on: June 01, 2006, 06:57:06 PM »

Do you have home switchs on the machine? If you have the home switches you will be able to stutdown,Startup mach, rehome and be back to cutting chips

There is also a way to do this under the Config/State ... play with the persistan Offsets and CopyG54 From G59.253 on startup. That should get you what you are looking for.

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Mach Screens / Re: Starting A Wizard

« on: June 01, 2006, 06:19:24 PM »

Use one of the other wizards as a start and see if that helps you I pick on the circular hole pattern