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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach 3 acceleration coding change

« on: May 31, 2012, 11:10:26 PM »

The great team at Artsoft hooked me up, for those who are curious:

If you open your XML File in a word editor(IE: Note Pad or Note Pad++) you can manually change the Acceleration to what you would like. Once the XML is open search(CTRL-F) for ACC0 for the X, ACC1 for the Y, and ACC2 for the Z. Save the file run mach3 and you should be good to go.

by XML, he was referring to the XML for the Mach 3 profile I wanted alter.

Happy Hunting!

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Feature Requests / Re: Setting acceleration percentage in Gcode

« on: May 29, 2012, 02:07:46 AM »

Hi Kris,

I think I followed your thread pretty well.  Would your g code solution work for the problem I described here?

http://www.machsupport.com/forum/index.php?topic=21674.0

Thanks,
Tim

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach 3 acceleration coding change

« on: May 29, 2012, 01:42:27 AM »

Unfortunately using the current motor tuning system the minimum acceleration I can input for a 540 unit max velocity is 2.2 unit/s/s acceleration, which is 5 times too fast for my application, hence my question concerning coding.  If I try to put in a lower acceleration value the system forces it back up to what I just described.  I have tried changing kernel speeds and steps and the result is the same.  There is some formula in the coding that defines that acceleration graph and the motor velocity / acceleration parameters, I need help locating that equation in the coding so I can change it to suit my needs.

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General Mach Discussion / Mach 3 acceleration coding change

« on: May 28, 2012, 02:01:39 PM »

Hi All,

I have been using Mach 3 for a couple years for CNC work.  I am trying to use Mach 3 for a special motion control project, here is the situation: The motor I am running (a NEMA 42 4120 OZ/in motor) functions well up to about .4 in/s/s acceleration setting or lower (the min acceleration for 100 in/m max velocity) but I need to run it at 540 in/m (the system accelerates way too fast when I set the max velocity that high and causes a lot of problems).  My question is:  Does anyway know a method (maybe changing the code) so that I can run a a 540 in/m velocity but get to that speed with a low acceleration (.4 in/s/s) or lower?  Right now it looks like mach is designed to reach max velocity about 4 seconds from start.  My best guess at a simple solution would be to extend the ramp up to max time from 4 seconds to something much more gentle at high speeds, like 20 or even 40 seconds.  So my final goal is to have a max velocity of 540 in/min and to get to that speed over a period of time that is 20 seconds or longer with an acceleration of .4 in/s/s or less (.2/s/s would be about ideal)

Thanks for your help,
Tim