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Show"N"Tell ( Your Machines) / Re: Worlds oldest CNC lathe?

« on: February 05, 2008, 07:38:00 PM »

Thats great stuff Ron. Wouldn't the original builders of the lathe be proud? I bet they would.

Brett

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Manual limit override

« on: February 05, 2008, 07:32:26 PM »

What is your other problem?

Brett

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VB and the development of wizards / Re: VB Scrpt output

« on: February 05, 2008, 07:30:54 PM »

Is it simply a convention that users ought to stay out of the below 100 codes so they dont get trampled by some new future  Mach addition?

I think this is right Ron.

Brett

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Show"N"Tell ( Your Machines) / Re: My new project

« on: February 05, 2008, 06:52:12 PM »

That is looking good Monty. Good I tell you.

Here is a link to the Smooth Stepper forum.
http://www.warp9td.com/index.php

Brett

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Prices for one-on-one phone tech support.

« on: February 05, 2008, 01:39:39 PM »

We are looking for a viable solution for one on one phone tech support. Any ideas you have on this subject are welcome. Mach users cover a broad range. From hobbiest just wanting to play, job shops who use it everyday to earn a living, and OEMs that use it as a foundation of income for lots of people. We want to come up with a solution that will benefit, be accepted, and be helpful to all. As with all things in the beginning, It will not be flawless from the start. Due to limited man power, there may be considerable waiting times. I'm guessing we would have a "Click here for live support" tab. Once you click it the next available supporter will set up payment arrangements, most likely paypal, and introduce their self.  If all goes well we would add over time supporters in different time zones around the world. The ultimate goal is to have 24 hour support although I suspect it would take some time to get to that point. I think we would have a pretty consistant 18 hour window now, perhaps more.

Brett

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Brains Development / Re: Brains posts

« on: February 04, 2008, 09:08:32 PM »

Ok Vince, the child board Beta Brains has been added to the downloads board  . Go on and post the ones you have with a brief description. Also make the first word of the file name Beta. If we can get everyone to do this, will be much easier to find with a search. We will see how this goes. As with everything else, if it doesn't fly, we will delete it.


Brett

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VB and the development of wizards / Re: VB Scrpt output

« on: February 03, 2008, 03:29:42 PM »

Do you mean this list? If so, you can create your own image amd import it to your bitmaps folder then edit your screen with screen 4 to show your personal list.

Brett

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Brains Development / Re: Brains posts

« on: February 03, 2008, 12:25:04 PM »

You'll get there Vince. I'm looking forward to the time when I can have a play with Brains as well. I wonder if we should add a members download board and have child boards in it for, by catagory, all "finished" contributions of members and maybe the mods. and admins could save those there. All topics would be locked, not a lot of chating, just useable screen sets, Brains, macros, profiles, g-code, post processors etc. with a brief description and a max of 4 screen shots per thread with links to the original post. This would take a great, great, huge effort to start, but should be pretty easy to maintain I think. 

Brett 

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Brains Development / Re: Practical application of Brains, Video request.

« on: February 03, 2008, 11:57:27 AM »

You bring up some good points Scott. It would be nice if we had a place for users to post videos in higher res. I will try to do a little research on this. I think you are missing the point here though. These are for users to share, free of charge to help fellow users. Mach has the tutorials, that are deemed worthy by them, in their tutors section eating up their bandwidth already. If anyone has a video they think is worthy of posting there they can contact myself or some other Admins. to review and decide. I guess ultimately Brian would have the final say. Youtube will be good for most I think and we don't run the risk of offending anyone. If no one watches it, no harm and no precious server space eaten up. I think paid support is something we definitely need to research for those that don't know how Mach works and don't care. All they want is a machine running. They don't have the time to contribute and should have an option to pay for a higher level of support IMO. I think we also need to look into phone support for the smaller guys as well. Maybe a per call price for those who get stumped and need a little help but can't afford the Platinum level of support or time to research. It would be their option. If it was a big enough problem to pay to get it fixed quick they could at their will without breaking the bank. If not, they could fish around on the forums and try to fix it themselves. I think most with enough time and patience can fix anything themselves. Now, on to my solution.

Post the macro/s, brain/s and chart for others to study if you have time. You don't owe it to anyone. The video you already posted is nice and a great contribution. Thanks for sharing it with us. I think it would be much nicer if it had the others to go with it. That won't eat up band width. Those who truly want to learn will have a nice example to learn by. Those who don't want to take the time to learn could perhaps contact you for paid support?   

Brett   

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Mach3 and G-Rex / Re: Latest G100 Set-Up Guide

« on: February 03, 2008, 08:22:37 AM »

Thanks for the info.

Brett