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General Mach Discussion / Re: milling problems

« on: January 19, 2008, 11:58:55 PM »

Please put a G61 at the start of your file and test a G12 I.5 F10 move. Do you get a nice round circle?
Thanks
Brian

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LazyCam (Beta) / Re: Curves come in as lines

« on: January 14, 2008, 07:13:25 PM »

This is a loading error and we are working with the company that we license the file importing from .... We have new code that seems to be working better now... Hope to have an update soon!

Thanks
Brian

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Look ahead above 2 can cause G0 Feed-hold/Cycle Start Issues Position Loss

« on: January 08, 2008, 09:27:51 AM »

Chip send me your Gcode file please... I can not seem to get the same problems.

thanks
Brian

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Look ahead above 2 can cause G0 Feed-hold/Cycle Start Issues Position loss

« on: January 08, 2008, 09:16:02 AM »

Chip,
I have fixed the install program and I will work tonight on the code to fix the feedhold. That, I think is going to take the night and I am not sure that I wil be able to finish it

Thanks
Brian

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General Mach Discussion / Re: OK that does it!

« on: December 27, 2007, 09:42:27 AM »

Graham,
Macro looks good and will be in the next rev

Thanks for looking at it
Brian

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General Mach Discussion / Re: OK that does it!

« on: December 26, 2007, 01:15:07 PM »

I added it to my list... I am working on some other code but will have a look as soon as I am done.

Thanks
Brian

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Its lucky for us.........

« on: December 22, 2007, 09:10:43 PM »

Hood Art and I are adding code for your license file... You may not want to update...

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Fun with Mach3 at the shop

« on: December 16, 2007, 01:57:23 PM »

Hello,
Sorry I didn't get back to you sooner... I have not had the time to be on the forum in the past months I have been working like a mad man!

Okay this is what I did with the PLC:
Analog from the plasma unit goes into the PLC (Unfiltered) I get the data into Mach3 (Over ModBus)and I made a Plugin that has a PID loop to filter the Analog that it gets... This seems to work well! The only problem that I have is com times from the PLC to Mach3... This was a long time ago and I have no idea if I even have the code for that anymore I was thinking that I should work on that again as I love the idea of having the THC in code and not hardware! I like the fast that it is also a PID loop and not a simple up down command... From the testing that I have done it has real promise... 

I will nt be at the workshop... My wife is due about that time and I would like to see my son into the world Other then that I would have been there!

Thanks
Brian

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Pick up where it left off

« on: December 08, 2007, 01:18:56 PM »

Hood you are getting fast for an old guy

You will take the steps that Hood described...

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Pick up where it left off

« on: December 08, 2007, 11:28:12 AM »

When you Press "STOP" you are telling the software to stop NOW and there is NO decel. This is not how you should be running your mill and if you would like to pause that is the "FeedHold". Feedhold is what you should be using if you would like to restart.

I hope that helps
Brian