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Tangent Corner / Its funny what people say

« on: April 09, 2007, 07:21:01 AM »

the old dear next door stopped and asked what I was doing, fixing a new number plate to my car was my answer, the old one fell off the other day and got lost.  How much is one of them she asked, I told her, is that new or second hand she said, trying to keep myself from laughing, I said I had tried every scrap yard I could think off and not one of them had a plate with my number on it, what a shame she said and went about her business.

Graham.

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Tangent Corner / Re: Amsterdam, NL

« on: April 08, 2007, 08:13:47 PM »

Great place, I loved Dam Square, its unbelievable, the sex shop was next door to the butchers, it was like looking in a cave at stalagmites and stalagtites

Graham.

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G-Code, CAD, and CAM discussions / G-Code scaling program, mm to Inches and back

« on: April 08, 2007, 07:56:04 PM »

Hi All,

here is a small .exe program for converting G-Code from mm to Inches and Inches to mm, it will also scale to any size you require, with in reason.

The program needs no installing, just double click to run it.

Click 'input file' to select the source file

Click 'output file' and enter a new file name, you can't read and write to the same file name.

Select conversion options.

Click convert.

That's all there is to it.

Try it and see if it works for you.

There is a later version of this program higher within this thread that has no limit to the number of lines of g-code it will convert, this version has a line limit of 32000.


Link to Later version :- http://www.machsupport.com/forum/index.php/topic,2893.msg39920.html#msg39920
Regards

Graham.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: metric sae conversions

« on: March 29, 2007, 07:53:59 PM »

Hi Brandy,

Brett sent me your post, its a 2 part post system. Let me have your email address and I will tell you what we need to do to try and get you inches.

Graham.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: metric sae conversions

« on: March 29, 2007, 07:02:44 PM »

OK,  imperial is inches,

attach your post and lets have a look at how it is structured, then we may be able to modify it.

Graham.

2156

Modbus / ModIO plug in

« on: March 28, 2007, 07:21:43 PM »

Hi All,

has anybody played with the new plug in,  if you have please send me a PM, I have questions that need answers.

Graham.

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Modbus / Re: Mod-IO communication problem

« on: March 28, 2007, 07:07:50 PM »

Is JP4 set to RS232 (pins 2-3) or RS485 (pins 1-2), it should be RS232.

Is the selector wheel set to zero ?

Graham.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: metric sae conversions

« on: March 28, 2007, 06:33:20 PM »

CAD systems usually work in units, its the post that sets inches or mm's, if you look in the posts you will be able to set them to inches.

Attach a post for us to look at.

Graham.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Variables - revisited

« on: March 28, 2007, 09:49:36 AM »

Or if you only want to change 1 variable :

#1=1.5
#2=[#1-[#1*2]]

Graham.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Setting offsets from G-Code and other settings & Other Questions

« on: March 26, 2007, 10:12:58 PM »

Hi Paul,

Welcome to the forum.

The G28 command is used to send the machine to zero return :-

G28 Z0
G28 X0 Y0

To set offsets in program you should look at G10 or you can use # commands

#1=100
#2=25.
G00 X[#1+#2]
Y[#2]

Graham.