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General Mach Discussion / Re: Thinking of buying Mach3

« on: July 23, 2006, 02:44:37 PM »

 Hi Hood,

               What stepper controller board do you use?I was looking at hobby cnc.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Thinking of buying Mach3

« on: July 23, 2006, 12:47:35 PM »

 Thanks Hood. Mach3 seems to be the best thing going.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Thinking of buying Mach3

« on: July 23, 2006, 12:25:37 PM »

 Hi everyone,

                 I was wanting to see mach2 work.I don't have any motors connected yet.I was thinking that I could load the g code and watch the X,Y dros do something.Is this possable? I did this with quickstep and I was able to read the voltages on the coresponding wires coming from the printer port.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Thinking of buying Mach3

« on: July 23, 2006, 09:48:45 AM »

 Thanks.Thas what I wanted to know.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Thinking of buying Mach3

« on: July 23, 2006, 09:09:34 AM »

 Hi ,

                I thought of something else. I plan on milling pcbs.Will Mach2 or 3 import excellon files or gerber files?

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Thinking of buying Mach3

« on: July 23, 2006, 08:56:26 AM »

 Hi Hood,

             thanks.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Thinking of buying Mach3

« on: July 23, 2006, 08:17:41 AM »

Hi Hood,

                Thanks for the reply.

No, with steppers you just need a drive for each motor and a breakout to connect everything to the parallel port.
Hood

  So the amount of travel is calculated in the software? Do I need to set this up?  if so how?

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General Mach Discussion / Thinking of buying Mach3

« on: July 22, 2006, 11:25:19 PM »

 HI Everyone,

              I am considering  of getting mach3 to controll a homemade cnc router/engraver and I have a  question.

          Do I need encoders  on the stepper motors to let the mach3 know whats going on?
             I plan on using a driver board from hobbycnc and was wondering if this would be suitable? I am new at cnc.
         Any comments are appreciated. Regards Charlie