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General Mach Discussion / Re: PROBLEM ON MACH3 WITH AMD PROCESSOR

« on: September 05, 2007, 05:37:56 PM »

Try removing the powerNOW drivers and settings. It will then run at full power all the time, not just when it thinks it should.

Graham.

1952

General Mach Discussion / Re: When loading a program, the spindle starts up.................

« on: September 05, 2007, 05:35:20 PM »

Hi Darc,

Glad to be of help.

Graham.

1953

General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach3 G91 And Reverse HELP :)

« on: September 04, 2007, 04:14:33 AM »

Hi Mentor,

can you post your g-code so we can have a look at it.

Graham.

1954

General Mach Discussion / Re: When loading a program, the spindle starts up.................

« on: September 04, 2007, 04:08:14 AM »

When Mach loads a program it reads the code to draw the toolpath, any M codes you have created are also read,  what you have to do is this :-

enter this code into each and every macro you have created:

If IsLoading() Then
 ' program loading, do nowt
Else
 ' enter your existing code lines here
End If

This will stop mach3 executing the code during loading

Graham.

1955

General Mach Discussion / Re: G81 weirdness, newbie

« on: August 30, 2007, 04:06:46 AM »

Hi Rob,

try the code like this, this should work, I am going to pass this one on to Art as the G80 should have cancelled the drill cycle but it looks like is did not.

What version of Mach are you using?

Graham.

N100 G20
N102 G0 G17 G40 G49 G80 G90
N104 T104 M6
N106 G0 G90 G54 X-1.25 Y0. S1069 M3
N108 G43 H104 Z2.
N110 G98 G81 Z-.6 R.1 F4.28
N112 X1.25
N114 X.315 Y-1.5945
N118 X-.5762 Y-1.5873 Z-.3
N122 G80
N124 M5
N126 G91 G28 Z0.
N128 M01

N130 T4 M6
N132 G0 G90 G54 X-.5762 Y-1.5873 S1800 M3
N134 G43 H4 Z2.
N136 G98 G81 Z-.6 R.1 F1.03
N138 G80
N140 M5

1956

G-Code, CAD, and CAM discussions / Re: Very Basic G-Code Help

« on: August 29, 2007, 04:30:06 PM »

You can do it this way,

Add this after your G80 line:

G00 Z-.49
G01 G91 X.25 F2.
X-.5
X.25
Y.25
Y-.5
Y.25
G00 G90 Z1.

Graham.

1957

General Mach Discussion / Re: Loadfile problems/questions

« on: August 28, 2007, 01:41:29 AM »

Hi Mike,

all of your macro's need to have the statement :-

IF IsLoading() THEN
  Do nothing, Mach is working out the graphics
Else
  Your current code goes here
End if

Graham.

1958

Modbus / Re: Problems with communication

« on: August 26, 2007, 04:01:13 AM »

Have you had a look in yahoo groups, there is a modio group there and it may be they can give you more details, peter homann frequents it too.

Graham.

1959

General Mach Discussion / Re: TCP/IP Modbus(beta): added to the wiki

« on: August 21, 2007, 05:51:27 PM »

Now that's going to be very useful especially with a new Mach3 brain.

Lets hope its fast fast fast.

Graham.

1960

General Mach Discussion / Re: Newbie Alert! Offset problem

« on: August 21, 2007, 05:43:54 PM »

Hi,

I have had a look at your DXF files and the problem may be that you have multi lines making up your contour (See Picture).

It is always better to have your DXF files as one continuous single line.

I would try it again with single lines.

What did you use to draw the outline?

Graham.