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Mach Discussion => General Mach Discussion => Topic started by: DingusMcgee on September 05, 2014, 11:05:20 AM
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I design a job to be done and make it a work area of 6x4 and a pocket cut of 5x3 choose all the settings for that and tool choice etc. ;D
All in inches, verify and reverify. :D
Save it to mach3 inches text ;D
hand it over to mach3 ;)
load 8)
and whamo...I am watching in frustration as the mill is cutting a 1x1/2 pocket about 1/100th" deep ???
I checked everything I could and redrew the whole thing on different programs and I still get the same issue. I even run the projects on mach3 and they do the same thing.
has any one else run into this problem before? >:(
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Make sure the default units in Mach3 are set to inches.
Then, make sure you're in inch mode (G20) and use MDI to move 1". Make sure it moves 1".
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Thanks I havent done the MDI portion. Still new to this. Will give it a shot. If it doesn't move 1" what then? lol
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Well I am a blazing idiot. I have no clue as to what to do with MDI. I have a lot of reading to do. Hope I don't fall asleep before I can learn something as it looks more dry reading than the introductory page of Linings and Coatings for beginners.
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This ....
... for starters.
Russ
:)
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well its clearly obvious I am going just less than 1/4 of travel than commanded so somewhere in my setup/config I have not done something right. I need to scour the settings and the manual and see where I screwed up. I select 4" of travel and it gives me just over an inch
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Change your steps/unit in Motor Tuning.
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up or down? I started at 3200 steps, got all the way to 15,000 steps which gave me about a 2:1 difference instead 1:4 So I can get it to move 2" when I tell it to go 4" before it was 3/4" when told to go 4". So I am stuck. I go much higher that 15k and the motors freak out and stop
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Ok, I have figured it out. I tried everything I could.
It came down to scale.
I had to set it at 2.1250 to make it give me exactally 1 inch to 1 inch move.
Already had some jobs being done.
Life is now good!