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General Mach Discussion / Re: Newbie Help Please to another Stupid Question

« on: May 20, 2012, 08:08:24 AM »

No, it does about 80 Miles per hour (Fast!) and traverse's about 70mm I am adjusting the Steps per Unit in the Motor Settings to try and achieve the 10mm - I hope this is the right way to go about it. I have a clock gauge etc handy to fine tune it, but at the moment I'm miles off! 

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Newbie Help Please to another Stupid Question

« on: May 20, 2012, 06:34:27 AM »

Wow.. Mr Hood, that was one of those things which was easier done than said ... for a change!

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Newbie Help Please to another Stupid Question

« on: May 20, 2012, 06:16:28 AM »

Thanks once again for your reply...  XML ? Xmas Mailing List?, really !

I'm going to have to have another study of the Mach3 User Guide, but I'll get back to you on that one. 

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Newbie Help Please to another Stupid Question

« on: May 19, 2012, 06:43:39 PM »

Still having a hell of a time setting this contraption up. The 'Chinglish' Manual gives me a boatload of settings on the Steps per Scale but it is all in Chinese. Surely I cannot be be the only 'Plonker' in the World who has one of these machines..... 

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Newbie Help Please to another Stupid Question

« on: May 19, 2012, 04:36:09 PM »

Hi again and thank you for your reply. I don't know what makes the little yellow bugga's think they can get away with trying to sell kit with hookie software. Bad enough giving me a copy of ArtCam Pro7 and documenting in the User Manual how to apply a Patch on the Sentinel Lock.... but giving/selling me a hacked demo version of Mach3 takes the biscuit!

Anyway, I have now downloaded and installed the latest version of Mach3 - Looks different and the Mill seems to be more responsive. Still have my scaling problems but I'm sure it will be much easier to follow with this newer supa-dupa version.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Newbie Help Please to another Stupid Question

« on: May 19, 2012, 02:30:51 PM »

Mmmm... Need to check that out. Not sure about the version though, it came with my Chinese Wonder (a wonder it's working from the cr@p chinglish manual that it came with) I'm allready having a run-in with the EBay seller expecting me to use pirate copy software, and run a patch on it, so it comes as no suprise that the version I'm using is antique - it's probably been hacked. It says it is a Demo version, but it runs the machine okay with a 1,000 code line limit. (another bone of contention!")

As soon as I am settled up with this little yellow guy, I'll purchase a licenced version - I'm allready in the dog house for spending money, the other half has found the receipt for my machine (800 quid )

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General Mach Discussion / Newbie Help Please to another Stupid Question

« on: May 19, 2012, 02:09:31 PM »

What am I doing wrong? If I create a drawing, say a rectangle 100mm x 200mm for instance in Autocad, and import it into Mach3 through the File | import DXF | Generate G Code then Done, it works fine other than when I come to execute the G Code, the machine draws a tiny version of the job about the size of a postage stamp.

To my simplistic thinking it is needing to scale things up to a 'Real World' size.....

 

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Newbie Help Please to Stupid Question Number 1

« on: May 19, 2012, 08:03:07 AM »

Wow Rich, thank you so much, I can now make the 4th Axis unit rotate Forward and Reverse. I'm over the moon !!! 

Not knowing which pins were serviced by the A Axis (4th Axis) convention proved a bit of a challenge, but after a sensible think and a cup of coffee I soon deduced which pins the little yellow people had wired the 4th Axis Unit to. 

For anyone else stuck with the same dilemma, the Step Pin is Pin #2 and the Dir Pin is #3 with the same step Port and Dir Port as the X,Y & Z  Pin #1

Thanks again for putting me in the right direction......

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General Mach Discussion / Newbie Help Please to Stupid Question Number 1

« on: May 18, 2012, 04:19:47 PM »

Well, I have manged to make my Chinese wonder draw a circle (cheapo Biro tied to the Z Axis with elastic bands) Write my Wife's name and draw rectangles. No credit to my Chinglish User Manual, but anyway, I want to make sure the 4th Axis unit is working but I don't seem to be able to make it respond. I cannot find anything in the Mach3 Software Installation and Configuration Manual about it either.

My Chinese Wonder (a wonder that it works as the user guide is cr@p!) is a Tosin TS3040C

Can some kind person point me in the direction as to where I can find the settings/switches for the 4th Axis please.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: New people welcome !! Come in here and introduce your self!

« on: May 17, 2012, 05:26:32 PM »

Yep! I'm a Newbie... New to the forum, New to CNC.  New owner of one of those Chinese TS-3040 with the very badly translated 'Chinglish' Manuals which has lines of text like, 'Don't Blindly run again after running'  (perhaps an Olympic Sprinter Methinks!)

I am a retired Teacher from Britain and I have toyed with the idea of owning a small CNC Router for most of my life. Now that I have one, I'm having a real Sh#Ty time trying to get it work! 

My other interests are Sea Angling and Recreational Chemistry - converting Ale Wine and Spirits into Urine.

So, I am sure you find some very interesting, STUPID' type post from me .....