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General Mach Discussion / Re: Draft Mach3 v3.x Programmers Reference Manual

« on: October 04, 2009, 06:52:17 AM »

Nice work Ray, Now we have a great reference it will allow me to clear some of that detail from my grey matter now.

Thanks
Graham

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Feedrate override for dummies? Please?

« on: October 03, 2009, 12:32:13 PM »

You could set up 2 OEMTriggers, 1 for the A channel and 1 for the B channel, then you have to write 2 macros 1 for each trigger to run, in the macros is a bit of code to increment or decrement the feed rate.

Graham

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G-Code, CAD, and CAM discussions / Re: A Gcode Command To Control Plunge?

« on: September 25, 2009, 10:55:55 AM »

'F' is used to control the down feed, if you are talking about a 2 or 3 axis simultaneous move where the z is at a different feed rate to the x and or y axis then it can not be done.

Graham
 

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Brains Development / Re: Brain File Format

« on: September 24, 2009, 04:43:32 PM »

I think you would have to beg and plead and throw mail sacks of cash at Art for that file format.

Graham

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Tempest Trajectory Planner / Re: Tempest Planning - Preliminary information and testing

« on: September 24, 2009, 02:42:03 PM »

Hi Art,

I tried this file on the new planner, see what you think

Graham

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VB and the development of wizards / Re: toolchanger lathe sauter buruffaldi

« on: September 16, 2009, 02:55:50 PM »

Have a look at this thread.

http://www.machsupport.com/forum/index.php/topic,5864.msg39011.html#msg39011

Graham

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Rotating work offsets around Y

« on: September 13, 2009, 12:11:54 PM »

Wrong again, I will keep my mouth shut from now on.

Everybody wants a quick fix, the skills have gone and nobody wants to set up a machine properly, sad times we live in.

Graham

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G-Code, CAD, and CAM discussions / Re: Having some trouble with programming, please help

« on: September 13, 2009, 04:50:38 AM »

HI,

G70/71 are not supported in Mach3, if you search the forum you will find some 3rd party code that will emulate the functions, Mach3 has no real memory limit like a Fanuc control so using LazyCAM or any other Cam system to produce huge g-code files is not a problem.

Follow this link for the files :- http://www.machsupport.com/forum/index.php/topic,9529.msg67485.html#msg67485

Graham
 

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Rotating work offsets around Y

« on: September 13, 2009, 04:25:04 AM »

It would be a much better solution to square up the rotary table, even if you could use G68 to correct the error you can not compensate for drilling and reaming through the work piece.

Graham
 

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G-Code, CAD, and CAM discussions / Re: Resin dispensing machine

« on: September 07, 2009, 03:14:37 PM »

If you have a second drive on the Z axis (slave motor) you can make the slave adjust the flow rate of the resin. if you calculate the rate and drive it proportionally then you may be able to use an engraving routine from vcarve or the like.

Graham