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General Mach Discussion / Re: Third Annual CNC-Workshop ( June 11-17, 2007 ) Galesburg, Illinois, USA

« on: January 30, 2007, 04:02:30 AM »

I have got my name down, I am not going to miss this one.

Anybody else in the UK fancy a trip to the USA?

Graham.

2232

G-Code, CAD, and CAM discussions / Re: Converting JPG & BMP Files To GCode

« on: January 27, 2007, 02:20:40 PM »

Not sure what you want to convert, pictures or drawings, but have a look here.

http://www.vectric.com/

Graham.

2233

G-Code, CAD, and CAM discussions / Re: Blender 3D and Mach3

« on: January 27, 2007, 04:18:00 AM »

I did a quick conversion of your Jpeg and this is the DXF file It generated.

Try it.

Graham.

2234

G-Code, CAD, and CAM discussions / Re: Blender 3D and Mach3

« on: January 27, 2007, 03:36:29 AM »

The problem is your DXF file is incomplete, for the shape you have shown it should be hundreds of lines long, It looks like you are not outputting all the layers.

Graham.

This is all that is in your DXF.

 0
SECTION
  2
TABLES
  0
TABLE
  2
LTYPE
 70
     1
  0
LTYPE
  2
CONTINUOUS
 70
    64
  3
Solid line
 72
    65
 73
     0
 40
0.000000
  0
ENDTAB
  0
TABLE
  2
LAYER
 70
     1
  0
LAYER
  2
Meshes
 70
     0
 62
   254
  6
CONTINUOUS
  0
ENDTAB
  0
ENDSEC
  0
SECTION
  2
ENTITIES
  0

2235

G-Code, CAD, and CAM discussions / Re: Blender 3D and Mach3

« on: January 25, 2007, 11:19:07 AM »

Go to File and click LazyCAM, thats the dxf importer.

Graham.

2236

G-Code, CAD, and CAM discussions / Re: Cutter Compensation

« on: January 25, 2007, 11:10:05 AM »

I have had a look at the dxf file and all looks ok.

Is the DXF file to size or do you scale it up/down?

Will Mach run off in the same place each time? If so where.

Is the profile size wrong from the start or part way through?

Dose it make one right and then one wrong?

What size cutter are you using and to what depth.

Graham.

2237

General Mach Discussion / Re: Can I turn Off Cutter COmp on Mach 3 Side?

« on: January 25, 2007, 06:18:23 AM »

Cutter comp. is only active if you have a G41 or G42 in your program.

Graham.

2238

General Mach Discussion / Re: backlash program will not run

« on: January 25, 2007, 04:38:40 AM »

Your code runs fine on mine, backlash enabled and set to .05mm on X,Y and Z

Graham.
 

2239

General Mach Discussion / PLC recommendation

« on: January 25, 2007, 04:24:03 AM »

Hi All,

has anybody got a recommendation for a good but fair priced modbus PLC with 16 I/O's

Thanks

Graham.

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G-Code, CAD, and CAM discussions / Re: Cutter Compensation

« on: January 25, 2007, 04:09:03 AM »

Hi Joe,

post a dxf file and I will have a look at it.

Graham.