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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach3 Problems - Rant!!

« on: May 23, 2011, 01:25:03 PM »

If your CAM is doing like Vectric's VCarving, then the problem might be that the actual angle of the V bit is not EXACTLY what is described in your CAM.
This has caused very similar problems numerous times over on the Vectric forum.
Just a possibility.
Russ

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach3 Problems - Rant!!

« on: May 23, 2011, 12:55:33 PM »

Is that bad corner at the start and/or stop point of the cut ?
just curious

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Motor stall killing me!

« on: May 20, 2011, 10:45:23 PM »

Under Config/Ports and Pins/Motor Outputs
Russ

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Motor stall killing me!

« on: May 20, 2011, 09:50:45 PM »

Have you checked the active state of the STEP pulses ?
Russ

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach3 Problems - Rant!!

« on: May 20, 2011, 02:58:34 PM »

QUOTE "One more thing, the Z axis sometimes moves DOWN instead of up when we hit zero all axis, "

In addition to what Darek says, if you are meaning "Go to Zeros", then Mach will move to PROGRAM zero which could very well be DOWN from the current position of the Z axis.
Just a thought,
Russ

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach3 Problems - Rant!!

« on: May 20, 2011, 02:36:59 PM »

and the most worring of all is it's can't cut corners!!! instead of cutting a perfect what ever degree corner it goes to far into the corner where corner sharpening was applied and jabs a piece out of the material leaving a half moon shape were the corner was suppose to be... I rest my case.

"Corner Sharpening" .... or as SheetCam calls it "Overcut Corners" will do exactly as you are describing when pocketing or cutting an inside corner on a profile.
This allows a sharp cornered object to be inserted into the pocket that would otherwise have a radius in the corner = to the radius of the cutter.
Vectric uses a "Dogbone Fillet" or something like that.
This allows you to put a square cornered peg into a square hole.
.... if I understand you correctly.
Russ

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach from command line

« on: May 13, 2011, 12:14:25 PM »

C:\Mach3\Mach3.exe /p Mach3Turn
Right click / properties on the desktop icon

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Show"N"Tell ( What you have made with your CNC machine.) / Re: Cylinder Heads

« on: May 11, 2011, 03:37:58 PM »

"Wire cutters."
Nifty ! Never thought of that.
The only ones I made were a bit bigger, 1.6" or so.
The instructions I had said to gently force them over a slightly tapered mandrel until they crack.
Worked pretty good. I was surprised ....  as usual. lol
Nice work Steve,
Russ

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Hood.....where is he?

« on: April 27, 2011, 07:57:35 AM »

I was hoping the router took another lightning strike.
Get well soon.
Kind regards,
Russ
Get that man a laptop .... STAT !

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Determing proper cutter

« on: April 26, 2011, 09:35:40 PM »

WOW !
Can't get enough plane stuff. My brother took me on a dependants cruise back in the late 70's on a carrier, been addicted ever since.
THANKS, I could listen to plane talk for hours. I can only imagine the stories you could tell.

(;-) TP is really sharp with this code stuff, you're (we're) in good hands.
Russ