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G-Code, CAD, and CAM discussions / Re: artcam pro 2008 jerky motion issue

« on: June 05, 2010, 05:15:33 AM »

Make sure you have CV turned on by putting a G64 in the start of the program and remove any G61's

Graham

1192

General Mach Discussion / Re: Tool Height Probe

« on: June 03, 2010, 06:30:00 AM »

Have a look at this :-

http://www.machsupport.com/forum/index.php/topic,13233.0.html

Graham

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G-Code, CAD, and CAM discussions / Re: G code

« on: May 13, 2010, 07:05:20 AM »

I had a quick look at your code and it looks fine, I think you may be loosing steps in the Y axis.

Graham

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G-Code, CAD, and CAM discussions / Re: Turning Aluminium Advise.

« on: May 05, 2010, 06:13:37 PM »

Try a feed rate of .35mm/rev and adjust the depth of cut to allow this feed rate.

Graham

1195

General Mach Discussion / Re: 4-th Axis running bad

« on: April 09, 2010, 12:28:10 PM »

What do you have set in your steps per for the A axis.  You need to have it set for a one degree movement.

Graham

1196

General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach 3 putting in offsets? HELP!

« on: April 07, 2010, 07:29:45 PM »

Half you problem is that the code is in incremental, if it starts in the wrong place it will remain in the wrong place until an absolute command is issued.

Have you a picture of what you are trying to machine?

Graham

1197

General Mach Discussion / Re: conventional vs. climb

« on: April 07, 2010, 04:49:00 AM »

I am not sure what you are asking but if you reverse the direction you will reverse the thread e.g. right hand would become left hand.

G02 travelling Z zero to Z minus will produce a right hand thread (clockwise helix)

G03 travelling Z zero to Z minus will produce a left hand thread (anti clockwise helix)

Graham

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General Mach Discussion / Re: help with program issue

« on: April 04, 2010, 02:55:29 PM »

In your macro you can check the input with something like this

If IsActive(Input1) Then
  msg("Clamped")
Else
  Code "M30"
End If

Or if this is something that needs to happen all the time then you can add it to the Cycle Start button script.

If IsActive(Input1) Then DoButton (0)

Graham

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G-Code, CAD, and CAM discussions / Re: PROBLEMS with G00 and G01.

« on: April 03, 2010, 03:01:57 PM »

Not always the case,  when you run a G00 command there is no CV blending so the movement is stopped after every move command.

Graham

1200

General Mach Discussion / Re: Turn Eccentric Wizard

« on: April 01, 2010, 04:10:52 AM »

Daniel,

If I was cutting a square on and eccentric peg then I would use the chuck as a rotary indexer and mill the flats, why make life hard 

But the square code is doable too.

Graham