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General Mach Discussion / Re: history errors

« on: August 31, 2009, 10:00:43 PM »

IJ mode in general config.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Screen4 Help

« on: August 30, 2009, 09:12:01 PM »

Try right clicking.

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PoKeys / Re: Have Added Matrix Keyboard support up to 8x8, to the plugin, but look at this

« on: August 30, 2009, 09:33:33 AM »

Dave, I think we're just getting old.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Faster movement for 3d routing???

« on: August 29, 2009, 06:33:13 PM »

Make sure CV mode is on, and use the fastest accel you can. You might posibly want to play with the different CV settings to see if they make a difference. Here's the CV docs, which might help.

http://www.machsupport.com/docs/Mach3_CVSettings_v2.pdf

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Offset Screen

« on: August 29, 2009, 06:31:26 PM »

Any time you zero the axis', the saved G54 offsets will change (until you restart Mach3). It's kinda hard to tell you what you should be doing without knowing exactly how you are working.

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Show"N"Tell ( Your Machines) / Re: New Project for the shop.

« on: August 29, 2009, 07:22:05 AM »

No, I modeled it. It's the Z axis screw for the new router I've been designing.

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Show"N"Tell ( Your Machines) / Re: New Project for the shop.

« on: August 29, 2009, 06:57:36 AM »

Hey, you have to model those screws, not cheat.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Offset Screen

« on: August 29, 2009, 06:31:46 AM »

You might want to watch the Homing, Limits and Offsets video.

http://www.machsupport.com/videos/

Mach is always in G54 work offset unless you choose a different one. The offsets are relative to machine coordinates, which are defined when you ref the machine.

If you zero the regular DRO's and your project os offset from 0,0, then I'm guessing that the g-code is offset from 0,0. Can you post it?

I just did a quick test. Gcode for a circle centered at 0,0. Jog away from it. When I zero X and Y, the crosshairs center over the circle, at 0,0

Wwat you may need to do is regen the toolpath, as when you switch screens and change offsets and zero axis, the tolpath display may not be correct when you change back to a previous screen.

But watch the video. as Art does a pretty good job of explaining things.

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LazyCam (Beta) / Re: LC won't do Spirial Pocket

« on: August 28, 2009, 07:22:49 PM »

Try this. Virtually all the joints between lines and arcs need either trimming or extending, as none of them lined up. The only one that was OK was for the center shaft.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Useing 2 moters for X move

« on: August 27, 2009, 05:38:08 PM »

If you are running 1 motor on each side of a gantry you will have to set one to rotate  in the oposit direction. In the ports & pins menu Motor Outputs  the box for Dir Low Active needs to be checked for A axes

If you're using screws, they should be the same rotation.