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General Mach Discussion / Re: motor tuning

« on: May 19, 2009, 05:17:59 PM »

I restarted a few times, and shut down for a while and restart.
I did uninstall mach and reinstall.
Maybe I need to do as you say and rename the directory.
I plug the USB from smoothstepper in to a different laptop with XP, and everything run fine no problems at all.
Anyway  now I am trying to get XP put on my laptop. we will see if that works.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: motor tuning

« on: May 14, 2009, 03:45:20 PM »

also it is Vista

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General Mach Discussion / Re: motor tuning

« on: May 14, 2009, 03:35:33 PM »

I get that one, thank you. Absolute and Incrimental.

0-10 percent

I have reloaded Mach3 several times now and no motor tuning yet.

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General Mach Discussion / motor tuning

« on: May 14, 2009, 02:50:20 PM »

I can't get the motor tuning screen, nothing happens. I am trying to setup with a smoothstepper if that makes a difference. The problem I have is numerous to start with.
I had it on a laptop with a parallel port and everything worked fine but slow, would burn wood. (it was a loaner computer).
bought a smoothstepper, put everything on a different laptop and everything looked fine, except I got crop circles, errors in the g-code, and distance differences, rapids to fast for the motors.
I could run the same g-code on my house computer, no error, no crop circles. I think that is gone now, I think I am getting sleep deprived.
Now everything is 1/2 or 1/4 the size it should be. I can't get the motor tuning screen, I click on it and nothing happens, the drop down just goes away,  and if I use the settings window to adjust the steps, the rapids are way to fast for the machine.