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General Mach Discussion / NPN Proxy switch help

« on: November 19, 2006, 08:25:41 AM »

Hi All,

This Boxford I am converting has NPN proxy switches for homing, they work at 24VDC black and brown are power and blue is signal.

My question is this can I connect them direct to an input or do I need to convert the signal in some way?

Thanks
Graham.

2392

General Mach Discussion / Re: single block problems

« on: November 19, 2006, 04:52:04 AM »

The program is at faul try it like this.

O0001(11-18)
 
(T1 =  .25 ENDMILL 2FL H1 , D1 )
 
N1
T1 M06 ( TOOL - 1  .25 ENDMILL 2FL   )
M01 (PUT T1 IN SPINDLE)
M08 G04 P1000
G54 G0 G90 X0. Y0. S6000 M03
(WATCH OFFSET ON OFF)
G43 H1 Z.1
G1 Z-.1 F8.
G41 D1 X-.011 Y-.0064
X.0127 Y-.0475
G3 X.19 Y0. I.0823 J.0475
X-.19 I-.19 J0.
X.19 I.19 J0.
X.0127 Y.0475 I-.095 J0.
G1 X-.011 Y.0064
G40 X0. Y0.
Z-.2
G41 D1 X-.011 Y-.0064
X.0127 Y-.0475
G3 X.19 Y0. I.0823 J.0475
X-.19 I-.19 J0.
       X.19 I.19 J0.
       X.0127 Y.0475 I-.095 J0. ** should be 2 lines
G1 X-.011 Y.0064
G40 X0. Y0.
G0 Z.1 M09
M05
M30

Graham.

2393

General Mach Discussion / Re: Rapids

« on: November 18, 2006, 11:11:05 AM »

Hi All,

I have got it sorted,  all is well on the movements, now onto the spindle.

Graham.

2394

General Mach Discussion / Re: Rapids

« on: November 18, 2006, 09:30:49 AM »

Hi brian,

Setting so far

X 800 pulses/mm 1500 vel 150 acc
Y 800                 1200     150
Z 880                  1000     75

Jogging is fine, just cant get it to rapid without stalling, I have tried all sorts of combinations without any luck.

Graham.

2395

General Mach Discussion / Rapids

« on: November 18, 2006, 07:50:05 AM »

Hi all

I have just got this boxford running on stepper motors, never used them before its always been servos.

my question is this :-

if I can jog at 750 units/min why wont it rapid at that under G00 command?, it stalls out

Graham.

2396

General Mach Discussion / Re: parts/cycle counter

« on: November 17, 2006, 04:04:26 AM »

Great, you got it working.

Graham.

2397

G-Code, CAD, and CAM discussions / Re: converting *.Mc9 to Mach3 G-code

« on: November 16, 2006, 12:48:46 PM »

Download the latest version of mach R2.0.009 and install it.

To do screen grabs download screenhunter from this link, free version.

http://www.wisdom-soft.com/products/screenhunter.htm

Graham.

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G-Code, CAD, and CAM discussions / Re: converting *.Mc9 to Mach3 G-code

« on: November 16, 2006, 05:12:10 AM »

This is what I get in Mach3 from your latest nc file.

try changing to incremental IJ mode in config

Graham.

2399

LazyCam (Beta) / Re: Pimp my Lcam

« on: November 15, 2006, 11:29:14 AM »

How about LATHE.

Graham.

2400

General Mach Discussion / Re: Lost my orientation...

« on: November 15, 2006, 10:16:15 AM »

Hi Keith,

always image the tool is moving not the table, then you can use the right hand rule.

Stand in front of the machine with the X axis moving left to right in front of you.

Poke your right thumb to the right (X) your first finger away from you (Y) and your second finger up (Z),  these are all your PLUS movements.

I hope this is what you meant.

Graham.