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General Mach Discussion / Re: PART CNC PART MECHANICAL

« on: May 15, 2012, 09:18:43 PM »

GRAYHILL, do yourself a favor and scrap the TB6560. Remove it from your system and give it a fling out the window. That's about the only thing I've found they're good for. They were junk when I bought mine and they are still junk. If I added up the cost of material I had to scrap because of missed steps, magic smoke, etc coming from a TB6560 board, I could have bought the G540 time and time again.

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Share Your GCode / Re: Chucks Deer V carve engraving

« on: March 11, 2012, 07:24:44 PM »

Send the rope file to me as a file attachment maybe?

dgates555@gmail.com

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Share Your GCode / Re: Chucks Deer V carve engraving

« on: March 05, 2012, 09:50:55 AM »

I opened the DXF in Autocad and scaled it. I'd like to get that rope border file if it's available.

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Share Your GCode / Re: Chucks Deer V carve engraving

« on: March 03, 2012, 08:22:55 PM »

I put comments in the gcode file for tooling. Giving back to those I have learned from.

This was cut in MDF so I could test my entire gcode file. I haven't figured out offsets yet so I use G92 and G92.1 instead. Either way it works.

These are the comments I put in the gcode file:

(Deer drink coasters)
(chucks v-carve pro deer, Artsoft.com)
(Material 10"x10"x.5000)
(1st tool 60* vbit)
(2nd tool 1/4" end mill)
(Zero at lower left corner of material)
(move to X2.25, Y2.25 and rezero)
(Z0=top of material)

10x10 isn't necessary as you can tell by the pictures. 9.5x9.5 will suffice.

If anyone wants to help me figure out offsets, I'm all ears.

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Share Your GCode / Re: Chucks Deer V carve engraving

« on: March 01, 2012, 09:56:45 PM »

I used this as drink coasters, thanks for the file!

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Finished Screens / Re: Mach3 2010 Screenset - Now available

« on: February 19, 2012, 07:02:57 PM »

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G-Code, CAD, and CAM discussions / Re: Digitizing wizard results

« on: February 01, 2012, 08:42:07 AM »

You're not stating the obvious to me. I'm new to all this. I built a probe and dying to try it out.

http://www.cnczone.com/forums/diy-cnc_router_table_machines/146212-free_plans_my_digitizing_probe.html

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G-Code, CAD, and CAM discussions / Re: Digitizing wizard results

« on: February 01, 2012, 08:25:37 AM »

Thanks Russ, that's exactly what i was looking for. I only know enough gcode to send my tool deep into my table.

Darryl

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G-Code, CAD, and CAM discussions / Re: Digitizing wizard results

« on: February 01, 2012, 07:40:44 AM »

I'm just thinking out loud now and I'll get my answer sometime this weekend but... with the resulting gcode using the digitizing wizard, when I go to cut my material, will up be up, over, down, up, over, down like the probe or will it cut like a 2.5D?

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G-Code, CAD, and CAM discussions / Re: Digitizing wizard results

« on: February 01, 2012, 07:13:21 AM »

Thanks for the quick response. I'll be on the road for a few days so I won't get a chance to do that probably until the weekend.