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I am new to the forum and very stoked on working with CNC machinery. I have very little experience but I now have a Shopbot and I want to run it with Mach3 as I am very comfortable with it. I also have a small K2 machine that I have been learning on for the last few months and already have  a post that will work with SolidWorks/SolidCAM/Mach3.  My question is will Mach3 run a Shopbot??? if so what changes do I have to make? 

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My name is Stan Pleskunas and I am new to this forum and also new to running a CNC machine and creating my own G-code. My background is in the water sports industry, surfing, sailing and the like. I have spent most of my life designing and building products for this industry. A large portion of my work has been to design small machinery  and set up production lines for these types of products as well. I recently purchased a small K2 CNC machine and I am in the process trying to set it up. I am using SolidWorks 2011 and SolidCAM to design and build my parts.  I know in the short term I will not be of much help to anyone on this forum however hopefully in the future I will have something I can help other participants with.  My first question: The nature of my parts require that I generate code with the y and z axis reversed where the y becomes the z and z becomes the y axis. The reason for this is the my cutter axis is horizontal and in line with what now is the y axis.  My first thought was I will just switch plugs on the servos at the controller. That works HOWEVER  the buttons in mach three do not reflect the shift in axis so it is incredibly confusing especially for a newby like me. If it were possible to re-assign the axis symbols on the buttons in Mach 3 the problem would be almost solved. Also all of the other parameter designations for axis would also have to be changed to avoid confusion. Is there some method to do this on a global level within Mach 3. I suspect I am over looking other ways to solve this issue and any help would be greatly appreciated.     

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