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General Mach Discussion / Mystery: Technical or Spiritual

« on: February 23, 2010, 11:13:48 AM »

I  re-did the whole Layout in LazyCAM and made 3 seperate g-code .tap files.
 One for the HERCERK, one for the 1st and one for the ABALONE.
Then, ran it all seperatly .
And, I didn't go that deep (Z axis).

Finally it didn't "Jump"..
But, It's little off-center.
Or, that, as the machine engraves, the fonts get bigger as they move to the right end fonts.
The font is slightly larger, thereby, increasing the space between the top of the Font and the border.
It happen before.
 I have another  Cap completed, with the  engraving that shows that "Effect".
Thanks for your time Guys..
I don't know if the problem will occur again.
Alton

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General Mach Discussion / Program itself?

« on: February 22, 2010, 12:52:23 PM »

I've been trying 2 other g code engravings.
They both work O.K.
I re-did the faulty "Abalone" program in LazyCAM and re-posted to Mach 3.
It did the same thing on the 5th cycle of the g-code.
I am going to re d0 it in LazyCAM and try once more.

Also, I notice , when I re-uploaded Mach3 and LazyCAM, I don't have all the fonts I had originally.
Why would LazyCAM have missing Font styles?
How can I get them Back, Like Mono Corsiva?

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General Mach Discussion / Remove Anti-Virus?

« on: February 17, 2010, 12:34:10 PM »

Thanks Phil,
 Should I remove the AVA Anti-Virus program from my computer?
I use another computer strickly for the CNC/Mach 3. No internet connected to it.
So, I don't need any virus protection since I'm not connected?
I am wiling to do this.
Now, I'm on a new HP  desktop for e-mails and other media, and my turbo-CAD.

Below is a photo of the tool Path.
And, the other shows how the top fonts curve is smaller than the required radius.
Rich,
What is that "exact stop and constant velocity modes" ?

Yes, I will be running in circles today...
..test it as suggested..
Thanks,
Alton

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General Mach Discussion / Motor tuning

« on: February 16, 2010, 09:36:50 PM »

Hi,
 I did the travel test and seems to be O.K.
I re did the top and it moved .005" on the 5th time I ran the program.
I stopped it and did the upper fonts.
I'm getting a hard time taking a photo to show the defects, 'cause that abalone material
gives off reflective lighting making photo taking frustrating.

The Fonts are in a .750" disc.. Following the curve.
On the 2nd cut, the fonts cut it to a smaller radius.

The Motor tuning is at 10.42 Velocity and 3.75 Acc.  for X & Y Axis.
 The fonts are about 1/8 " tall. Diameter of round piece is .750" or 3/4"
The cutter size is .0079" Depth of cut is .002"
Spindle speed is approx. 18,000 and feed rate I'm using is .8 units/min.
Could there be a "Virus" in the program that Norton Security Scans can't detect?
Or something wrong with my computer's micro chip?
Thanks for your comps on my site Rich...
 Alton

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General Mach Discussion / Replies

« on: February 16, 2010, 12:05:33 AM »

Thanks Russ and Rich!!
Appreciate your fast replies to help me..
I will do both your suggestions.
 I did recently have to re-configure my Mach 3 to Gecko 540 and the Motor tuning was haed to set,
being that I don't know what is ideal..
I will also do the check on the font letter "O".. as a control to be sure it's not isolated to that particular font.
 I will post tomorrow after I do what you guys told me.
Thanks, good night.
Alton

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General Mach Discussion / X0Y0 Jumping?

« on: February 15, 2010, 10:45:49 PM »

Howzit Guys...
Please help...
I'm engraving with  Mach3 Mill and my fonts seem move or lose the X0Y0 position.
There is no z axis feed in the g code, meaning always G1 Z0.000 and I manually feed down .002" and repeat thesame simple font G-code cycle again.
The first few times is O.K., but, soon after, it engraves the fonts as if from another reference point.
I engraved others and never had this problem before.
The piece is secure..
Thanks for viewing..
(Click on the image for enlargement)
 Alton - Cue Caps

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LazyCam (Beta) / Re: Single line fonts

« on: February 03, 2009, 12:49:07 PM »

Thanks Chip.
 I did uncheck the "Ignore Text Entities".
 The DXF from TurboCAD came to LazyCAM with the letters, but, I was in another
font. And, I added some  a b & c d Wingdings I symbols to add some design to it.
When I opened it up in LazyCAM, the wingdings I came out as letters, and,
the words came out in a different font.

But, Thanks for your help. At least you told me how to get some kind of lettering to
open from TurboCAD to LazyCAM.

IMSI Tech support for TurboCAD answered with using the flexable option in the text Properties Box.
They also suggested I play with the Expand option in the "Set-up" box when saving the file in TurboCAD.
It still didn't come out when I opened it up in LazyCAM.
Thanks All,
 Alton

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LazyCam (Beta) / Re: Single line fonts

« on: February 02, 2009, 07:26:31 PM »

Thanks for a quick answer/reply Rich...

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LazyCam (Beta) / TurboCad Deluxe v15

« on: February 02, 2009, 06:42:21 PM »

Thanks Dave...

So, there's no other choices of Fonts in LazyCAM, except the ones offered that comes with it?
All are outlined letters... mmmmmmmm

I also got TurboCad Deluxe...
The Text created in TurboCAD is saved as a DXF, along with a polyline border around it.
When I open it up in LazyCAM as a new project,
only the Polyline Border shows up on the Info and Project screen.
No Text.

Is this a software compadability problem,
or do I have to convert the text to something else before I save it as a DFX file?
I do group the border and lettering before saving it as a DXF..

I'll go to the IMSI Tech Support to ask them, but, maybe someone here knows the answer.
Anyone???

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LazyCam (Beta) / Single line fonts

« on: February 02, 2009, 01:13:17 PM »

Howzit Guys,
 Please help me.
1.    I'm using the LayCAM text for a project in LazyCAM MILL.
 All the font's letters are outlined letters (Double line).
 Is there a tool to change that to single line letters for all the fonts?


2.   I went to that site where they offer free downloads of fonts.
What file do I downloaded to and how can I get to those fonts
when using the LazyCAM MILL - TEXT as another option to use
besides the fonts offered in that Text tool?

Thanks...
Alton -  Cue Caps