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Bargain Basement / Re: For Sale: Ethernet Smooth Stepper, VistaCNC Pendant, CNC4PC C35 and C6 boards.

« on: March 05, 2021, 01:39:49 PM »

All of these have been sold.

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Bargain Basement / Re: For Sale: Ethernet Smooth Stepper, VistaCNC Pendant, CNC4PC C35 and C6 boards.

« on: January 31, 2021, 07:20:51 PM »

I've posted these on eBay with a Buy It Now Price but I'm accepting offers.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/203265139145
https://www.ebay.com/itm/203265145034
https://www.ebay.com/itm/203265147717

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Bargain Basement / For Sale: Ethernet Smooth Stepper, VistaCNC Pendant, CNC4PC C35 and C6 boards.

« on: January 19, 2021, 02:38:44 PM »

I have the following items for sale. They are all in good working order. I'm selling them because I've decided to move to a Centroid Acorn control board and these items are no longer needed.

Ethernet Smooth Stepper $90
CNC4PC C35 Quick Setup Breakout Board $20
CNC4PC C6   Variable Speed Control Board $20
VistaCNC iMach P1A-S pendant (http://vistacnc.com/b07_pendant_P1/pendant_p1A-S.htm) $90.

I'm going to miss using the VistaCNC pendant. It really made working with Mach3 a lot easier. They are still supported by VistaCNC. Unfortunately they don't support Centroid.

Please contact me through PM or chrisattebery1971(AT)gmail(DOT)com

Thanks,


Chris

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General Mach Discussion / How do you reset the text editor and pdf viewers in Mach3?

« on: November 28, 2015, 08:42:31 PM »

That was it. The pdf viewer is set in Mach Standard Mill. Thanks Ger!

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General Mach Discussion / How do you reset the text editor and pdf viewers in Mach3?

« on: November 27, 2015, 02:59:40 PM »

Hello,

I recently reinstalled Mach3 on a new PC. When I did I set the text editor and pdf viewers incorrectly. Now i just get an error message when I try to edit gcode or open the manuals. How can i reset the text editor and pdf viewer to different tools?

Thanks,


Chris

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Loading old setup onto new Mach3 install with ESS

« on: November 19, 2015, 11:03:36 AM »

It turns out I copied the wrong xml file over. When I installed the ESS last summer I made a new xml. I pointed my desktop shortcut to the new xml, but kept it named like the original. So when I copied the file I looked at the name of the desktop shortcut and used that xml.

Mach Standard Mill needs .066 to be stable. I've been using it for 3 years and never had any trouble with it.

Sorry for the trouble,


Chris

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General Mach Discussion / Loading old setup onto new Mach3 install with ESS

« on: November 18, 2015, 03:00:33 PM »

Hello,

My controller PC had started to blue screen so I bought a newer machine. It is a Core2 Duo, 3 GB ram, onboard graphics(for now), with Win7 32 loaded. I installed Mach3(3.043.066, same as I was running before), MachStandardMill and the latest ESS plugin(ESS_v10r2d1d). Then I ran the SCU program. It completed and I can see the ESS and there aren't any numbers below BootPRxd. So far so good.

Now, if I create a new Mach setup I get the ESS not configured message. I typed in the address as 10.9.9.9 and then Mach will start. I looked at the ESS IP Config and it shows that the address is 255.255.255.255. I could see the status change when I pressed my cycle start and pause buttons.

I tried to reload my setup from the old controller by copying the xml to the Mach3 directory. Then I restarted Mach3 with this setup. I get the message stating that the ESS cannot be contacted, press Yes to retry, not to configure, etc. I select No and type in 10.9.9.9 for the address. but Mach never connects to the ESS.

Any suggestions? Needless to say I really don't want to have to reenter all of the setup data by hand again.

Thanks!


Chris

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G-Code, CAD, and CAM discussions / Re: Can I speed up this G73 peck drilling routine?

« on: June 04, 2015, 06:57:46 PM »

DONE. I reposted this on the Warp9 forum.

Thanks for the feedback.

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G-Code, CAD, and CAM discussions / Can I speed up this G73 peck drilling routine?

« on: June 04, 2015, 06:35:45 PM »

I just started using Fusion 360 for my CAM tool. I was using SheetCAM before and its drilling routines were all just G01 moves. It was very quick between holes. Fusion is using canned cycles and they seem to have a 1-2 second delay between X/Y moves between holes. Here is the offending code:

...
G98 G73 X0.425 Y-0.665 Z-0.85 R-0.3 Q0.1 F13.5
X1.425
X4.575
X5.575
G80
...

Is there any way to speed this up? The PC I'm using has a 3.4GHz  Pentium 4 with 3Gb of RAM. I'm running an Ethernet Smooth Stepper in the controller. I've tried upping the lookahead from 20 to 200 and that made no difference. Any suggestions?

Thanks,


Chris

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General Mach Discussion / Re: SheetCAM .tap following MeshCAM: RADIUS TO END OF ARC DIFFERS...

« on: February 20, 2015, 10:14:04 PM »

Thanks Gerry,

I edited both posts. Here is the output:

SheetCAM code

N0010 (Filename: Space Cowboy Fin x2 TRIM.tap)
N0020 (Post processor: Mach3.scpost)
N0030 (Date:20/02/2015 Time:18:46:09)
N0040 G20 (Units: Inches)
N0050 G40 G90 F1
N0060 G91.1
...
N0790 G00 Z0.2500
N0800 M05
N0810 G91 G28 X0 Y0 Z1.0
N0820 G90
N0830 M05 M30


MeshCAM code

(FILENAME: Space Cowboy Fin x2 BOTTOM.nc)
(STOCK/BLOCK, 12.000, 6.000, 0.116, 0.000, -0.000, 0.116)
G20G64G17
G90
...
G0Z0.2500
M5
G91 G28 X0 Y0 Z1.000
G90
M30
(END)
(OF PROGRAM)

Is that better?

Thanks for your help,


Chris