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General Mach Discussion / Re: Plasma Consumable Tracking

« on: October 29, 2012, 10:56:13 PM »

  Ok Terry. I inserted a couple DRO's on the Program page in the lower right corner, modified the M1030. And believe it not, it works!!! Sweet little addition. I made a quote and invoice database in Access and with this little trick I can easily plug in my total inches and pierces into my cost figures. Sweet, sweet, sweet!!! I was having to keep so many notes and have to pull up the drawing files all the time to compute this stuff.

Thank you, Thank you my friend,
GL

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Plasma Consumable Tracking

« on: October 29, 2012, 09:20:01 AM »

LOL. Terry has been great. I think he is out to be the source for Scam and Mach stuff. He has been a great help to me, not to mention is giving a lot of homework. lol I have learned so much on this forum you guys are the best.

GL

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Plasma Consumable Tracking

« on: October 29, 2012, 12:17:49 AM »

  Cool new goodies... Thanks, your bound and determined to keep me busy. lol Feeling like Christmas!
As to the Scam version thing...Yeah I used the exact post processor and source dxf. Along with a couple variants of the post processor. Weird stuff. But like you said, "It ain't broke so I'm using it."

Thanks so much

GL

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Plasma Consumable Tracking

« on: October 28, 2012, 11:20:20 PM »

I had a problem last week that was quite strange. I had installed Scam ver ?.?.16 (one of the newer versions) and tried to run the post processor on a very simple file that worked fine in version ?.?.14. Everything worked fine except it did not enter the switchoffset value. Then I installed version ?.?.21 and it did the same thing. Then went back to version ?.?.14 and it worked great. Got me scratching my head. Do you have any ideas?

GL

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Plasma Consumable Tracking

« on: October 28, 2012, 10:35:49 PM »

That would be cool as hell. Especially when cutting things out of scrap pieces of material. Lay it on me "Oh Guru of the G-Code"

Thanks
GL

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Plasma Consumable Tracking

« on: October 28, 2012, 08:58:07 PM »

Thanks for all the help. I'm sure I'll need some assistance from time to time. This should be a great help. Remembering to keep a log on all that is pretty tough when your busy trying to get work done. I'll keep you posted on my progress. I'm new to the Machscreen program so I will have to learn as I go. You have been a great help so far.

Thanks
GL

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Plasma Consumable Tracking

« on: October 28, 2012, 05:34:56 PM »

I'll give it my best shot. Who knows, I'll probably learn something new. (Us old dogs are suppose  to have a problem with that. lol) I really appreciate the help.

Thanks again
GL

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Plasma Consumable Tracking

« on: October 28, 2012, 05:19:25 PM »

Sounds good, I'm sure I'll probably have a few questions before I have success. lol

Thanks
GL

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Plasma Consumable Tracking

« on: October 28, 2012, 04:29:29 PM »

Ok, Had to play with the post a little bit, but seems to work right. Distance and pierces seem to be correct. And the 650, 651 posts look the same as your example.

GL

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Plasma Consumable Tracking

« on: October 27, 2012, 08:07:43 PM »

Thanks. Doesn't look to difficult.  I'll get on it tomorrow and let you know how I do.

Thanks
GL