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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: G32 funny feedrate issue

« on: August 06, 2018, 04:09:44 PM »

Are you running steppers or servos?

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G-Code, CAD, and CAM discussions / Re: Inside of the ring engraving

« on: July 20, 2018, 08:45:15 PM »

I have seen it done with the indexer on its back and the tool has a side mount diamond the text is drawn in the XZ plane and wrapped to the cylinder z up and down indexer rotates.

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G-Code, CAD, and CAM discussions / Re: Using a macro to "ref all home"

« on: July 20, 2018, 08:31:42 PM »

What happens if you just run this bit of code no extra bits or edits.

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G21 G40 G49 G80
G91 G28.1 Y0 Z0
M30
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G-Code, CAD, and CAM discussions / Re: Using a macro to "ref all home"

« on: July 15, 2018, 01:26:42 PM »

On my machines I do it this way :-

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G21 G40 G49 G80
G91 G28.1 Y0 Z0

N1(TOOL 1)
T1 M6                           
G54 G00 G90 Y-79                                   
S3250 M3
G43 H1 Z15               
G1 F250   
Etc....
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CS-Lab / Re: Confused on how to address outputs in VB with CSMIO

« on: June 01, 2018, 06:45:19 PM »

Cslabs do not use pin numbers they use output numbers so Machs output4 pin number is not Cslabs pin number but the output number on that pin.

So on the Cslabs IP-A device, connection unit terminal 5(out) & 14(return) is output4 so in Mach3 you set output pin to 4

Then in VB you can call  ActivateSignal(OUTPUT4) or DeActivatSignal(OUTPUT4)

Even more confused now?

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mache4 Lathe-pmdx411 incremental move problem

« on: May 12, 2018, 12:36:57 PM »

Do you do an absolute return to start before the second cut ?

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Finished Screens / Re: Portrait Touchscreen - New

« on: May 03, 2018, 05:47:03 PM »

Very nicely done 

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Works in progress / Re: Super simple single screen for Mill or Router

« on: March 20, 2018, 09:23:39 PM »

Tweakie, Mike,

It is now.

The screen set is provided as is, no changes will be made to it, it was done for use in schools where only the minimum amount of controls are needed and as such is great for just loading and running g-code.

With the windows menus turned off it makes it very hard to play with the settings and as such not much can go wrong. Or that is the theory, I am sure some kid will prove me wrong  

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G-Code, CAD, and CAM discussions / Re: AlphaCAM, Mach3 milling post processors

« on: February 27, 2018, 08:08:40 AM »

Mancuza,

my advice would be stay well away from Alphacam now a days!

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G-Code, CAD, and CAM discussions / Re: AlphaCAM, Mach3 milling post processors

« on: February 27, 2018, 08:06:00 AM »

Hi Henry,

there is nothing in the g-code telling Mach to slow in the corners so it could be a CV setting that is causing this.