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General Mach Discussion / Re: shuttle pro not working

« on: January 29, 2007, 02:51:13 PM »

Yes this morning will try calling later today
gary

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General Mach Discussion / Re: New CV features

« on: January 29, 2007, 02:48:01 PM »

No won't be able to open, I bailed on version 9.4 of vector and went to AC.
This must be in a setting difference as I believe we have the same motors etc on our machines.
Do you have the same results with both Quantum and 2.040? I will have another play later when i have more time.
g

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General Mach Discussion / Re: New CV features

« on: January 29, 2007, 10:37:18 AM »

Scott you maybe right on the dxf issue between us, so out of curosity I ran it through 3 programs Artcam, Visual Cadd and Vector and got the same results broken vectors on all 3 which is highly unusual, maybe it was in the conversion between us.
Vector would not select as complete chain but did select in larger groups than VCadd which I could then group. Artcam selected grouped as one but would not toolpath until open vectors were closed.

if you load your originally posted tap file in to Mach and zoom in on the tool path you will see the change in color of the tool path these locations pretty much matched the vector breaks flagged in AC and the pauses when the file ran on my machine.

Not sure if that helps you any but lets know it that tap file I post works if not I'll do a bit more playing.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: New CV features

« on: January 29, 2007, 12:17:38 AM »

Thanks for the inside Art, and of course thanks for all the hard work you guys do to kept us belly acher's happy 

Scott, I believe a lot of the problems you are experiencing is due to the way your drawings are created and converted. When I looked at you drawing there was a lot breaks in your vectors which was at every place it paused and acted like it was in exact stop mode.

I corrected your vectors and re toolpathed using the outer vector cutting to the outside with 3/8" mill in 2 passes. There may be a small difference in size from your original as I did not go through offsetting etc.
anyway air cut this file and see if it runs better for you.
Run: CV On and all cv controls on the config off, also make sure you have "no fro on queue" checked.
gary

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General Mach Discussion / Re: New CV features

« on: January 28, 2007, 02:50:55 AM »

Hey Scott been testing your file, there's a couple of things I would like to try if you would send me your dxf for the 150 profile
I  don't seem to have the problems your having, just finished some 1" v-carve text and it ran as smooth as ever.
gary

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General Mach Discussion / Re: shuttle pro not working

« on: January 27, 2007, 07:20:17 PM »

Mark send me an email with your phone number and a time to call & I will walk you through the settings
I'm on central time
gary

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General Mach Discussion / Re: shuttle pro not working

« on: January 27, 2007, 10:45:43 AM »

On Diagsostics page set Jog Mode to "cont" not "mpg" a quick check can you jog with your arrow keys? if not then your in mpg mode

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Hot Rod Machining

« on: January 26, 2007, 08:42:26 AM »

Have a Harley if that helps

actually you might try 3dcafe.com they have a bunch of freebie 3d's or Turbosquid.com
I"m sure if you do a google you will find a bunch more

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General Mach Discussion / Re: shuttle pro not working

« on: January 25, 2007, 11:46:34 PM »

Don't use the software that comes with the shuttle.
Download the Shuttle plugin from the "download, plugin" page above and install in the plugins subdirectory
Start Mach, go to "config plugins" check to enable shuttle pro, select yellow config button and select your button options.
you'll be good to go.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Arrow Key Controls

« on: January 16, 2007, 01:06:08 PM »

Sorry, false alarm, somehow my jog mode got set to mpg
yep the ice seeped in