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General Mach Discussion / Re: All kindsa troubles

« on: June 16, 2008, 10:06:21 AM »

ok thanks i got the steps set and that seems ok but i still need help getting the pother puter to run the program the wifes gonna shoot me if i keep the mini mill in the living room lol

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General Mach Discussion / All kindsa troubles

« on: June 16, 2008, 09:34:43 AM »

  Hi I am very new to CnC , in fact have only had the machine for about a week.  I hooked it up and ran the mach 3 driver test and got HUGE sppikes and the number would go from 25000 down to to 4500 and all over , needless to say the motors could not be tuned, i looked for the optimize file that was talked about in the video, to help with this problem and have not been able to find it (probably right in front of me) .

   I hooked up the controller to a computer i have (the wifes) and the driver test was great i got the motors runnning fine......  BUT....  when i loaded a gcode into it it cut the item waaaay smaller than it was drawn in BobCadv22  i have made sure all the settings in BobCad are correct all in inches  then drew a 1 inch cube and posted it . then proceded to cut a cube that was so small i couldnt see it  again i have looked every where in mach for a place to set it to inches other than the place to set units for tuning motors (even that is in inches) and on the settings page its set to inches.  so what am i missing?  oh ya i am using the mach3 post processore form Bobcad




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