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General Mach Discussion / Re: Axis Drive Design Helper Spreadsheet

« on: October 27, 2009, 03:19:11 PM »

I've revised the spreadsheet to fix a couple of errors:

Thrust calculations were not correct.
Metric conversions not always correct.

Re-download to get the corrected spreadsheet.

Regards,
Ray L.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Axis Drive Design Helper Spreadsheet

« on: October 27, 2009, 11:54:50 AM »

Hi Ray,
  This is cool !
When I select Cont. Torque I get this pop-up for Inductance.
Is this right ?
Russ

Russ,

Nope, that's a oopsie.  Now fixed.  Just download the file again.

Thanks!

Regards,
Ray L.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Axis Drive Design Helper Spreadsheet

« on: October 27, 2009, 11:48:57 AM »

BTW - The user should ONLY enter values into the green cells.  All others are doing calculations, and should not be modified.

Regards,
Ray L.

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General Mach Discussion / Axis Drive Design Helper Spreadsheet

« on: October 27, 2009, 11:07:34 AM »

Below is a spreadsheet I've created to help with drive design.  It supports both steppers and servos, allowing you to enter component parameters (motor voltage/current/inductance, drive reduction components, screw type, etc.) and it calculates such things as optimum supply voltage for steppers, overall reduction ratio, step size, steps/unit, axis thrust, required step rates, etc.

At this point, I can't guarantee it's 100% complete or correct, but it is to the best of my knowledge.  If you find any problems, or see anything that should be added, please let me know.

Regards,
Ray L.

Updated spreadsheet 10/27/2009 12:15 PST to correct errors in metric conversion, and thrust calculations.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Need Help re: download

« on: October 25, 2009, 10:23:37 PM »

Ray,,
   I have been running Mach3 on a computer capable of producing excellent results, unfortunately I contacted a very nasty virus a Trojan and others, my question is, would it be possible to do a complete download of XP, would that clear the virus, or would it destroy my XP CD by transferring the virus onto the XP CD,

..................Edmund...................

Edmund,

A virus cannot "infect" a CD, since CDs are not writeable.  For the PC, there are virus scanners you can buy that should find an remove the virus, without having to do a reinstall of Windows.  I believe even Microsoft offsers a free one on their update site.  But, re-installing, starting with re-formatting the disc, is also a sure-fire, if somewhat brute-force, way of eliminating it.

Regards,
Ray L.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Need Help re: download

« on: October 25, 2009, 09:12:21 PM »

Ray can I ask you a different question?, relating to a virus in computer?
 
.................Edmund............,

You can ask, but I might not be able to answer....  Someone here will likely have an answer.

Regards,
Ray L.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Need Help re: download

« on: October 25, 2009, 07:51:10 PM »

Mach3 into old computer,

Mitra clone (I think?), 133 megahertz, Pentium 1 (Ithink), Windows 98 second edition,4.10.2222A, 40MB RAM,

I tried downloading Mach3 R3.042.029, no good unable too, I'm not a wizz at computers, my question is, if I download windows XP (if I can?) will that enable me to load Mach3?,

I have Master5 loaded at this moment,

..................Edmund...............

I think it's rather moot.  I doubt Mach3 would run at all on such a dog of a machine, no matter what you do to it.  The min. requirement for Mach3 is 1GHz CPU, 1Gbyte RAM.  Your best bet if you're determined to use that machine would be TurboCNC, which runs under DOS.

Regards,
Ray L.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: how i can write a message

« on: October 24, 2009, 12:40:02 PM »

Message ("Your lube needs topping up")

You can also use MsgBox("Your lube needs topping up"), which will put up a separate dialog, requiiring the user to click the OK button to proceed.

Regards,
Ray L.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: re: Whats happened to Mach.4 update

« on: October 23, 2009, 10:10:24 PM »

You should have a serialized license.. That is how some of the OEM's get there license.. If your license is just ABC Automation and there are no numbers.. that could be bad.. NO ONE has a license that they can just give out.. (this is what we are trying to stop)

Thanks
Brian

Now you have me worried. I purchased my mill from Legacy complete with computer and software. The "Licensed to" field has a person's name who was probably the person at Legacy who build the system. Is this a valid license?

Probably not....  You need to check with ArtSoft.

Regards,
Ray L.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: AD sure servo And smooth stepper

« on: October 21, 2009, 03:09:00 PM »

I have a smooth stepper running automation direct servo system and the trouble I'm having is unable to get over a 500 rpm with the servo motor
even with the max speed set to 3000rpm in sure servo soft and max speed in mach set to 3000  even went as far as setting the steps per unit to
30000 per unit there was  a little change but still not right so if any has any ideas pls let me know

Are you using a breakout board?  If so, which one?

Regards,
Ray L.