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General Mach Discussion / Re: mach 3 feed rate speed running faster than it should,

« on: October 16, 2014, 03:14:57 PM »

Paul, I currently run on my machine an older version than you, so I installed the version you are using on my old computer just for a test, and I have the same problem, requested and dro speed are about 10% out, after searching the forums it seems the way Mach3 displays feed rates was changed in version 3.039 see here.

http://www.machsupport.com/forum/index.php?topic=6640.0

S

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Show"N"Tell ( What you have made with your CNC machine.) / Re: Bike I built

« on: February 19, 2014, 11:03:31 AM »

That show is just a soap opera, and as far as I can tell most of em aint got a clue...... a bit like harleys plenty of noise but little else.........  lmao

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Show"N"Tell ( What you have made with your CNC machine.) / Re: Bike I built

« on: February 17, 2014, 06:44:53 PM »

As mentioned ages ago the next one will hace centre hub steering heres a drawing and rendering of the bike, its acually about 80% made Ill upload some pics of the machining at some point.....

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Show"N"Tell ( What you have made with your CNC machine.) / Re: Bike I built

« on: September 21, 2013, 05:55:28 AM »

Nope another bike, this one will have centre hub steering, I've build cars in the past lutus 7 types, in an effort to get my son interested in engineering, but he preferes music!!

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Show"N"Tell ( What you have made with your CNC machine.) / Bike I built

« on: September 19, 2013, 04:44:32 AM »

I've been a member on this forum pretty much from the start but always used yahoo groups, that's no longer usable IMHO, so Ive switched over to here.
Anyhow thought you guys might be interested in this, its the bike I built, all the CNC stuff was done with Mach, most of the interesting stuff is in main build pages etc.

Comments, questions and or criticisms are welcome......

http://www.cartesiandesigns.co.uk/SWSVXThmb.html

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Recommendations for a replacement breakout board.

« on: September 13, 2013, 12:51:36 PM »

I should perhaps mention the miller currently works fine, I'm just thinking its time to update.

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General Mach Discussion / Recommendations for a replacement breakout board.

« on: September 13, 2013, 12:15:20 PM »

Hello forum, I have a milling machine that I converted to PC control about 7 years ago, at the time breakout boards where in there infancy, so I made my own, well sort off!!, it actually consists of several boards, relay, charge pump, inverter control, etc etc.

I currently run two printer ports and have three Gecko Drive servo controllers (80vdc) for x,y,z, and one stepper controller for the 4th axis.

I also purchased but never got round to using a none Ethernet smoothstepper about 3 years ago.

So can anyone recommend a breakout board to replace the above but still allow me to use my servo and stepper controllers.

Would I be as well to switch to the smoothstepper now, and or should I replace it with an Ethernet one or other make of controller, also taking into account the imminent release of Mach 4!

Any help and or advice on this would be very much appreciated.

I'm in the UK buy the way

TIA

Shaun.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: calling Shaun Wainford .......

« on: January 25, 2011, 06:27:26 PM »

Hi sorry I didn't even know about this post, if I can help in anyway please contact me at involute.curve@yahoo.com
I have no idea what happened to the pictures on the site but I will have them all on my PC somewhere.

Shaun

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General Mach Discussion / Re: 4th Axis Probing/Diigitising How??

« on: February 04, 2010, 12:21:26 PM »

Was this Macro ever created and if so is it available.

TIA

Shaun.......

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Competitions / Re: ******Guess and win a G100 Grex******

« on: May 15, 2007, 07:56:24 AM »

Pure Guesswork now with some calcs 2,736,001 I see someone else worked it out the same so I added 1