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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach4 doing Feed per rev

« on: December 31, 2013, 09:33:32 AM »

Tool Tip comp is on the work bench... I have a plan in place on how to do the tool tip comp. So now I have to turn the crank and make the code Also this is all in mill at this point so I need to take the time to shift this over to turn and add all the other things I think turn needs (U and W for Inc moves ) Also many of the Gcodes will change.. We can add script calls to shift the machine into Mill mode for you out there with milling on a lathe

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach4 doing Feed per rev

« on: December 30, 2013, 08:42:19 PM »

He is the one that started all this with Mach4.. Hood wanted to have better offsets and Feed per rev that worked like this.. So I should have had the preview LOL

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General Mach Discussion / Mach4 doing Feed per rev

« on: December 30, 2013, 05:17:36 PM »

Here is a short video of me testing the feed per in Mach4. I also have been testing CSS and will try to get a video out of that working...

http://youtu.be/fIXrkznE2IU

It is using the VFD to get the RPM of the spindle over serial modbus so it is not as good as an encoder would be but it seems very good for the tools I used

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach4 Wizard screen shot

« on: August 08, 2013, 11:01:45 AM »

I think I want it to be done more then anyone  I am working on a tool changer macro now, as soon as I get that working I need to get the hot keys working for jogging and make some motor mounts for the plasma here. Anyone want to run a mill for me LOL

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach4 Wizard screen shot

« on: August 08, 2013, 10:18:10 AM »

Yup.. 100% script! You can also imbed this script into the screen so you can add functions like this to your screen
 I can't wait to see what everyone will do with this over time.

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General Mach Discussion / Mach4 Wizard screen shot

« on: August 08, 2013, 09:41:23 AM »

I wanted to show you an example of a wizard that I did in the new lua scripting engine. As you can tell you can have combo boxes.  buttons, Text boxes, images and so on.. This example will be open source and I am thinking about making a modual for LUA to help with making wizards so everyone will not need to know how to program LUA..

Enjoy!
Brian

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General Mach Discussion / New Wizard Trial download link

« on: January 24, 2013, 01:13:08 PM »

Hello,
I am sorry it has taken so long to get this out but I think it is time
for the  round of testing for the Wizards. The Wizards are nothing like
the old wizards, you can see that in the video's that Ron has posted.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GK4rbD6C17o

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D70-ViinAjY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqzvrS5zHtM


Download for the installer is here:
http://www.machsupport.com/downloads/MillWizard_Installer_Version_1.0.0.exe

I have been making parts with the wizards for the past few days and it
has been loads of fun. You will not be able to make Gcode in Demo mode
but you will be able to see the toolpath . You will also be able to save
the job file in the event you would like to cut a part later. If
everyone likes it and there are not to many errors we will start to sell
licenses. We are going to have a one month special intro price for the
everyone as sort of a customer appreciation.

Ron Ginger and I had a good time working on this and I hope you all
enjoy using them as much as I do. Also please have a look at the Help
files in the software, Ron and Todd are the driving force on the help
files and I think it is a great addition.

Thank you goes out to Ron Ginger , Todd Monto , Steve Murphree , Karl
Kirk , Jeff Birt and all the others for there input

Thanks
Brian

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Polls / Re: Depth of cut strategy

« on: August 31, 2012, 09:07:02 AM »

Best would be to do it in one pass

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General Mach Discussion / Re: CNC workshop 2012

« on: June 05, 2012, 11:59:48 AM »

I think I am going to make a video when I get back .. So it is a little clearer and I will try to note the questions that where at the talk..

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General Mach Discussion / Re: CNC workshop 2012

« on: June 05, 2012, 11:47:40 AM »

Looks like we are going to have some fun examples in the scripting  with Mach4.. I am going to make a script that will stop the machine and ask you to check the size of a hole. and re-run the hole until you get it the right size (boring head example).

also I will have a macro that will pocket out a circle where ever you are and you enter the depth and Dia that you would like to make..

thanks
Brian