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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach3 probe plugin?

« on: December 27, 2012, 02:14:36 PM »

Thanks, appreciate the input.
Happy holidays!

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach3 probe plugin?

« on: December 27, 2012, 02:05:10 PM »

Ah, manaully jog it to trigger the probe, that's how it works?
I was under the impression that once I pressed the start button that it would travel automatically.
Wonder why then there is a feedrate DRO on the screen?

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach3 probe plugin?

« on: December 27, 2012, 01:55:53 PM »

Yea, its not included with the install.

So is there a way to use the probing wizards without that plugin?

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General Mach Discussion / Mach3 probe plugin?

« on: December 27, 2012, 12:28:12 PM »

Newbie here learning how to not destroy the G0704 that took me a lot of money and too long to build.

Does anybody know where the Mach3 probe plugin is located?  It's not on the Artsoft page.
I'm trying to use the the Circle Center wizard but I don't get any motion when i press the start button.  I guess I need to install the plugin?
Any advise??

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General Mach Discussion / Preference in game controllers

« on: June 17, 2012, 07:10:49 PM »

Anybody have any feedback on their prefered game controller plugin XBox or Joypad.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Importance of Non-Intgrated Vodeo Card

« on: June 17, 2012, 07:06:12 PM »

Probably just going to look on Ebay for a cheap PCI Express 256MB.  That should be more that enough.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Importance of Non-Intgrated Vodeo Card

« on: June 17, 2012, 02:27:16 PM »

Thanks Hood,  I'll just pick up a video card they are cheap enough, why ask for problems?

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General Mach Discussion / Importance of Non-Intgrated Vodeo Card

« on: June 17, 2012, 11:41:17 AM »

I set up a Dell GX280 (2.8 GHZ Pentium 4 Processor / 4 GB RAM) to run MACH3.
It has on board video and MACH3 seems to work okay with it.
Is it absolutely mandatory that a non-integrated video card be used?
I'm guessing that the theory is not to use up the processor capacity for video processing, correct?