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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach 3 / lazy cam / tool table

« on: May 16, 2007, 09:37:33 AM »

Hello Simon,
You need to offset the path the rad of the tool in Lcam pro and you will not need to tell mach3 anything about the tool that you are going to use

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General Mach Discussion / Re: homing not zeroing axis?

« on: May 16, 2007, 09:32:59 AM »

Please check that the machine coordinates are set to zero. It will not zero the fixture offset on homing.
Thanks
Brian
 

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General Mach Discussion / Re: How to use my mill as a lathe.

« on: May 15, 2007, 08:34:11 AM »

With a few fixture offsets it would not be to bad
I don't know who did that but it was not me

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General Mach Discussion / Re: How to use my mill as a lathe.

« on: May 14, 2007, 05:22:05 PM »

Like this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUw9XKjMfUg

or like this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbfXXeiSHsw

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Feed rate override

« on: May 14, 2007, 05:03:36 PM »

The NoFRO on Q is the new one

and the override will work both ways...

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Feed rate override

« on: May 14, 2007, 10:38:23 AM »

In Quantum you would be corect
In Mach3 when you change the FRO you are changing time... so when you make a second shorter you are changing anything that uses time... for example Velocity will be twice as fast if you make a second happen in .5 sec. This will also change the Accel If you use the No FRO onQ that is telling mach 3 not to change time but to change time but to change how the TC's (Move vector in the buffer) are calculated and will take longer for the FRO to take effect..

that is a bit deep but it shows the problem

Hope it helps
Brian

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General Mach Discussion / Re: motorcycle engines

« on: May 14, 2007, 09:36:46 AM »

I looked and could not find them

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General Mach Discussion / Re: motors growling,help

« on: May 14, 2007, 09:31:16 AM »

You are getting a TON of noise in your system You will need to shield better or use the plasma from HyperTherm (on of the newer ones)

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Feed rate override

« on: May 14, 2007, 09:27:10 AM »

Could you program your code for a fast a bit faster

The more you up your FRO the more likely you are to have an axis fault So it would be good practice to start making your Feed rate a bit higher

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LazyCam (Beta) / Re: Lcam 2.0...

« on: May 14, 2007, 09:14:46 AM »

The Remove redundant will get looked at and  we have a message out to the company that wrote the importing code about the splines We will have that in as soon as we get the fix

We are going to be doing a bunch of work to turn as soon as we have mill and plasma working

We are going to add MUCH more code to the turn section (Time is the problem at this point, and there are more people that use mill )

Thanks guys
Brian