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Newfangled Solutions Mach3 Wizards / Re: NEW!! Drill Wizard

« on: September 03, 2012, 05:31:50 PM »

Thanks Ron, that works fine.  I was mostly interested to find out if I was screwing it up somehow.

Terry

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Newfangled Solutions Mach3 Wizards / Re: NEW!! Drill Wizard

« on: September 03, 2012, 01:50:19 PM »

Hi Guys,

I just dwnlded the drill wizard and I have an issue, hopfully you can straighten me out.

First, just to make sure I loaded it correctly, Drillwiz shows up as a wizard under the wizard button, not under the new fangled button, is this correct?

I am running a Tormach 1100 using Mach3 version R3.042.029.

I am unable to control the spindle RPM, when I type a number into the RPM box under the spindle & coolant buttons, I can type it in, but as soon as I hit enter the number goes to zero.  When I select M3 or M4 the spindle starts, but runs at the slowest possible speed?

I'm attaching a screenshot in case it might help.

Regards
Terry May

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Newfangled Solutions Mach3 Wizards / Re: Circle cutting wizard and Cutter Compensation

« on: February 21, 2012, 12:54:45 PM »

Art, Rick, all,

Just wanted to close the loop on my questions.  I reloaded the 2.86 version this morning and cut a very nice circle, with absolutely no problems.  The code still puts in the G41's but evidently they are correct, since the cutter doesn't cut anything except the circumference of the programed circle.

Again, my thanks for all your help.

Terry

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Newfangled Solutions Mach3 Wizards / Re: Circle cutting wizard and Cutter Compensation

« on: February 20, 2012, 11:52:52 PM »

Ron,

Thanks for pointing it out, until I responded to Rich I didn't realize I was using the older version.

I had been running 2.86, but somehow when I did my Tormach Series III upgrade and they sent a new Mach 3 disk, I mistakenly loaded the old version when I started putting things back together. I'll fix that in the morning and let everyone know if it solves my problem, I'm betting it will.

Terry

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Newfangled Solutions Mach3 Wizards / Re: Circle cutting wizard and Cutter Compensation

« on: February 20, 2012, 04:44:31 PM »

Rich,

The Newfangled Cut Circle wizard V 2.72

Terry

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Newfangled Solutions Mach3 Wizards / Circle cutting wizard and Cutter Compensation

« on: February 20, 2012, 04:18:10 PM »

Hi all,

Today I had an issue when using the circle cutting wizard where the tool path ended up with a small "dogtail" cut outside of my desired inside cut circle.  Since I use a Tormach 1100 mill, I asked first at CNCzone and a user pointed out that there were G41's in the code and suggested deleting them.  When I did that, the circles cut just fine.  I didn't understand why they were there in the first place, so I came over here and did a search for the issue.  I didn't find that problem exactly, but a similar thing was happening to a gent cutting DB-9 openings using that wizard. The responses indicated he did have a problem with the cutter comp and gave him a work around.

In my case, I did not intentionally ask for any compensation, and in the wizard I selected an arbitrary tool number, that was not populated in the tool table, so I don't know why it was added to the code.  So, I guess my real question is, why did it show up, and how can I keep it from doing so?

Thanks

Terry

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Newfangled Solutions Mach3 Wizards / Re: Metric thread on inch machine?

« on: July 15, 2011, 03:04:11 PM »

Ron,
  Thanks again for your help with this, and all your great work overall.
Terry

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Newfangled Solutions Mach3 Wizards / Re: Metric thread on inch machine?

« on: July 15, 2011, 01:32:08 PM »

All,

Ron is correct, (well Duh!) I ran the code in the example, except that I changed the rapid height to .1 and it did indeed rapid down and cut going bottom to top. And it does attempt to cut until it reaches the rapid height, so you definetly don't want to set that too high!

When I first got the mill I cut a thread on a dowel and I'm almost positive is went top to bottom, but that would have been with the old thread mill wizard, because it was before I bought the NFWs.

If you are interested in an opinion, I would definetly like to see the mod the Ron mentioned, top to bottom just seems more natural to me, on the other hand it works.

Thanks to all, especially Andrew and Ron, for helping me understand this.
Terr

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Newfangled Solutions Mach3 Wizards / Re: Metric thread on inch machine?

« on: July 15, 2011, 12:38:33 PM »

Andrew,

  Correct, it is making the rapid without any input from me. I have not added (or subtracted) anything, everything in the example is from the wizard.
I should have added for the setup, that I referenced all on the machine then set zero x,y to the center of the material to  be threaded and z to 1" about that for the air cut.

I didn't run them but programing the same example in older versions of NFW (285 & 272) show the same rapid in the begining.
Terry

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Newfangled Solutions Mach3 Wizards / Re: Metric thread on inch machine?

« on: July 15, 2011, 11:43:11 AM »

Andrew, everyone,

   I guess I spoke too soon when I said it worked fine, the setting up for metric worked fine, but  then I ran into trouble.
Again this is a Tormach 1100 mill using the Tormach supplied version of MACH 3.
Every time I set up to mill a thread it gives a warning that it is going to rapid Z to a number that is always = to what I program for depth, and then when I air cut the tool path just doesn't look right.  I am including below the code the NFW generated for an example cut.
The set up is for Al, using a .75" 10 tooth double bevel cutter.  I set it for a 2.0" minor diameter for 16 threads per inch to a depth of 0.5".  In the example it is only one pass, and is conv milling for an outside thread.
Besides the rapid Z move I don't understand, I don't get the other Zs moves up to about 2", I don't know if this is because the minor diameter is set to 2" or if it is a coincidence?
Any help someone could provide would be most appreciated.
Terry


(Code by Newfangled Wizard, 7/15/2011)
(Version 2.86)
(Program Posted for Aluminum )
G0 G49 G40.1 G17
G80 G50 G90 G98 
G20 (Inch)
(***** Thread Milling *****)
M6 T7
M03 S2546.5
M9
G00G43 H7 Z2
(Right Hand OD Conv)
(WARNING THis is going To RAPID down to Z-0.5)
X1.75 Y0
G00 Z-0.5
G01 X1.375 F47.3
G03 X-1.375 Y0 R1.375 Z-0.4688
G03 X1.375 Y0 R1.375 Z-0.4375
G03 X-1.375 Y0 R1.375 Z-0.4063
G03 X1.375 Y0 R1.375 Z-0.375
G03 X-1.375 Y0 R1.375 Z-0.3438
G03 X1.375 Y0 R1.375 Z-0.3125
G03 X-1.375 Y0 R1.375 Z-0.2813
G03 X1.375 Y0 R1.375 Z-0.25
G03 X-1.375 Y0 R1.375 Z-0.2188
G03 X1.375 Y0 R1.375 Z-0.1875
G03 X-1.375 Y0 R1.375 Z-0.1563
G03 X1.375 Y0 R1.375 Z-0.125
G03 X-1.375 Y0 R1.375 Z-0.0938
G03 X1.375 Y0 R1.375 Z-0.0625
G03 X-1.375 Y0 R1.375 Z-0.0313
G03 X1.375 Y0 R1.375 Z0
G03 X-1.375 Y0 R1.375 Z0.0313
G03 X1.375 Y0 R1.375 Z0.0625
G03 X-1.375 Y0 R1.375 Z0.0938
G03 X1.375 Y0 R1.375 Z0.125
G03 X-1.375 Y0 R1.375 Z0.1563
G03 X1.375 Y0 R1.375 Z0.1875
G03 X-1.375 Y0 R1.375 Z0.2188
G03 X1.375 Y0 R1.375 Z0.25
G03 X-1.375 Y0 R1.375 Z0.2813
G03 X1.375 Y0 R1.375 Z0.3125
G03 X-1.375 Y0 R1.375 Z0.3438
G03 X1.375 Y0 R1.375 Z0.375
G03 X-1.375 Y0 R1.375 Z0.4063
G03 X1.375 Y0 R1.375 Z0.4375
G03 X-1.375 Y0 R1.375 Z0.4688
G03 X1.375 Y0 R1.375 Z0.5
G03 X-1.375 Y0 R1.375 Z0.5313
G03 X1.375 Y0 R1.375 Z0.5625
G03 X-1.375 Y0 R1.375 Z0.5938
G03 X1.375 Y0 R1.375 Z0.625
G03 X-1.375 Y0 R1.375 Z0.6563
G03 X1.375 Y0 R1.375 Z0.6875
G03 X-1.375 Y0 R1.375 Z0.7188
G03 X1.375 Y0 R1.375 Z0.75
G03 X-1.375 Y0 R1.375 Z0.7813
G03 X1.375 Y0 R1.375 Z0.8125
G03 X-1.375 Y0 R1.375 Z0.8438
G03 X1.375 Y0 R1.375 Z0.875
G03 X-1.375 Y0 R1.375 Z0.9063
G03 X1.375 Y0 R1.375 Z0.9375
G03 X-1.375 Y0 R1.375 Z0.9688
G03 X1.375 Y0 R1.375 Z1
G03 X-1.375 Y0 R1.375 Z1.0313
G03 X1.375 Y0 R1.375 Z1.0625
G03 X-1.375 Y0 R1.375 Z1.0938
G03 X1.375 Y0 R1.375 Z1.125
G03 X-1.375 Y0 R1.375 Z1.1563
G03 X1.375 Y0 R1.375 Z1.1875
G03 X-1.375 Y0 R1.375 Z1.2188
G03 X1.375 Y0 R1.375 Z1.25
G03 X-1.375 Y0 R1.375 Z1.2813
G03 X1.375 Y0 R1.375 Z1.3125
G03 X-1.375 Y0 R1.375 Z1.3438
G03 X1.375 Y0 R1.375 Z1.375
G03 X-1.375 Y0 R1.375 Z1.4063
G03 X1.375 Y0 R1.375 Z1.4375
G03 X-1.375 Y0 R1.375 Z1.4688
G03 X1.375 Y0 R1.375 Z1.5
G03 X-1.375 Y0 R1.375 Z1.5313
G03 X1.375 Y0 R1.375 Z1.5625
G03 X-1.375 Y0 R1.375 Z1.5938
G03 X1.375 Y0 R1.375 Z1.625
G03 X-1.375 Y0 R1.375 Z1.6563
G03 X1.375 Y0 R1.375 Z1.6875
G03 X-1.375 Y0 R1.375 Z1.7188
G03 X1.375 Y0 R1.375 Z1.75
G03 X-1.375 Y0 R1.375 Z1.7813
G03 X1.375 Y0 R1.375 Z1.8125
G03 X-1.375 Y0 R1.375 Z1.8438
G03 X1.375 Y0 R1.375 Z1.875
G03 X-1.375 Y0 R1.375 Z1.9063
G03 X1.375 Y0 R1.375 Z1.9375
G03 X-1.375 Y0 R1.375 Z1.9688
G01 X-1.75
G00 Z2
M5 M9
M30