Messages

411

General Mach Discussion / Re: licensing question

« on: April 28, 2014, 05:48:54 PM »

Help/About ...

412

General Mach Discussion / Re: Moving part origin

« on: April 23, 2014, 04:37:13 PM »

Yesterday I made a simple code to "touch" 4 points 500 x 500 mm apart, repeating the process 50 times, and the tool made the touch points spot on

413

Finished Screens / Re: Mach Blue Probing by Big-Tex - new version 3.4 avaliable soon

« on: April 22, 2014, 03:05:49 AM »

It should be cutting fine calculated offset will be positive #, if plate is below material it will be negative #.
If you refer to verions prior to 3.4 you need to do it using my site to get files.

Thomas,
thank you for your kind offer, M'a Baker style
Will have to put my brain to overdrive again.

414

FAQs / Re: Setting Mach 3 Port to PCI parallel port address

« on: April 21, 2014, 02:12:51 PM »

PCI Parallel port should not change it's address after every computer power on.
I'm using one for hand held MPG, and it's address is not changing after power cycling.

415

Finished Screens / Re: Mach Blue Probing by Big-Tex - new version 3.4 avaliable soon

« on: April 21, 2014, 12:48:26 PM »

Hi Thomas,
can you send me your script for TC Zero Setup?
I'm using your latest public domain screenset, heavily modified for all the functions to be mm/inch, and found, just yesterday, that if the fixed plate is higher than material surface, tool is never reaching material for cutting.
10x

416

General Mach Discussion / Moving part origin

« on: April 19, 2014, 06:25:28 PM »

Happy Easter everybody!

I have an Chinese made router, distributed by IEHK (www.iehk.net) that, a week or so ago, I converted from pendant controller RZ********* to mach3 control.
Just to mention, I'm an electronic guy so I made my own BOB (original pendant has differential outputs, so the BOB that I made is converting LPT port Step and Dir signals to differential ones).
Today, I started a job which is 350 x 450 mm and has 7 roughing passes and one finishing.
After tool change for a finishing pass I've noticed that my origin has moved approx 0.4 mm per pass, approx 3 mm in total, both in X and Y direction. Haven't been by machine all the time, but I guess that the move occurred after every pass.
Machine is servo driven with 2.2 kW water cooled spindle.
Could not figure what caused this moving of work origin.

Attached .xml

And, screenset is Blue Tex with some scripts modified

417

General Mach Discussion / Re: smoother circles?

« on: February 27, 2014, 01:37:06 PM »

Hey nooby, sounds great, you could do us a favour and write a plugin for CorelDraw 

418

General Mach Discussion / Re: Another newbe with a 3040Z CNC from China :(

« on: February 25, 2014, 08:23:00 AM »

From my, limited, experience, Chinese drivers and/or BOB's don't have Charge Pump input, mostly only Enable.

419

General Mach Discussion / Re: Another newbe with a 3040Z CNC from China :(

« on: February 25, 2014, 05:40:15 AM »

It looks that the pin 16 is the Enable pin. Try changing it's polarity in Ports and Pins.

420

General Mach Discussion / Re: newbie help please

« on: February 21, 2014, 11:34:38 AM »

For Z axis
dir low = UNtick <-