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SmoothStepper USB / Re: SmoothStepper (Soigeneris) up and running!!!!

« on: November 25, 2009, 09:35:28 PM »

I have a Camtronics controller plugged into a parallel port on an XP-running machine that works fine. If I wanted to upgrade to a laptop without a Parallel port running Win7, would this be the thing I plug intop the USB on the pc, and then plug the camtronics controller into that, or would I have to modify the controller?

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SmoothStepper USB / Re: SmoothStepper (Soigeneris) up and running!!!!

« on: November 25, 2009, 08:25:35 PM »

So I can't just plug a Camtronics controller into a parallel port on teh back of this and have smoother stepping?

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SmoothStepper USB / Re: SmoothStepper (Soigeneris) up and running!!!!

« on: November 25, 2009, 06:12:54 PM »

Where can I find more info on teh Smoothstepper? Does this essentially function as a USB-to-Parallel converter?

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Losing Normal Condition

« on: December 05, 2008, 02:29:40 AM »

Not my code, definitely- this happens when I'm using the shuttlepro to jog, mostly.  I'll set the zero points and jog off them then go enter a g1x0y0 in the MDI interface- and the thing doesn't move. So I enter it again, stil no movement. So I check to see what's wrong, and the 'Normal Condfition' flasher is on. I enter a g90 before the g1x0y0 and it works. I want to know why it's not holding a normal condition, because very soon after I enter that g90 I have to enter it again.

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General Mach Discussion / Losing Normal Condition

« on: December 04, 2008, 09:34:54 PM »

I'm having some fun. I have always worked in G90 mode, but the sopftware seems to want to switch back to g91 offset mode whenever it feels like it. Thankfully it hasn't felt like it when in teh middle of a GCode run - yet. Anyone got any ideas why this is happening?