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General Mach Discussion / Re: Homing and limit switches

« on: October 09, 2013, 05:39:43 PM »

Hay Hood,

When I clicked on Ref All  the z axis moves first and trips the limit (the LED did not turn green, which if it did, would have indicated  Homed)

I Checked out the switches and discovered that when I activate them manually they appear to click twice and when I release the lever arm it clicks twice again !!!

I have no idea why, but can only guess that when you order a package of twelve switches for approx. $10.00 from china, "you get what you pay for"     LOL

Any way I'm in the process of ordering a new set of quality switches.

Thanks for you help and take care

Jerry

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Homing and limit switches

« on: October 09, 2013, 04:52:31 PM »

Thanks Hood,
I'll give that a go and let you know

Jerry

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General Mach Discussion / Homing and limit switches

« on: October 09, 2013, 03:23:00 PM »

Greetings group and Art;

I've been using my DIY CNC for sometime now and recently had to remove my gantry for routine maintenance and change out one or two limit switches.

I've been using the switches as both limit and Home, My issue is, when I Home the axis's they trip on limit each and every time. I've checked all my settings and they appear to be okay. ( I used the auto set feature).

Any idea what is happening? Maybe it's very simple and I'm forgetting the basics or having a brain freeze.

Thanks in advance

Jerry

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Tool Path Display

« on: June 29, 2013, 06:59:20 PM »

Thanks Hood

Too Bad

Jerry

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General Mach Discussion / Tool Path Display

« on: June 29, 2013, 03:15:40 PM »

Hello Group,Art;

Still new to Mach3 and was going over some early tutorials and came across one that showed the tool as a green conical shaped Icon tracing out the path of the material being cut ( The famous RoadRunner) The Icon was also spinning around when the spindle was turned on in Mach3 ( I really liked the animation)

I'm working on a licensed mach3 on my laptop that is not wired up to my cnc , I use this computer to design projects and run tests before loading the G-code file on the computer that controls my cnc.

Also, my spindle (Router) is not controlled by Mach3.

Could this be the reason I can't get the Icon to show on Mach3 when running a test program and or the fact that my spindle is not controlled by Mach3?

Thanking everyone in advance

Jerry

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Help loading wizards

« on: April 19, 2013, 09:02:42 AM »

Thanks Hood.

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General Mach Discussion / Help loading wizards

« on: April 19, 2013, 08:57:36 AM »

I recently purchased a mach3 license and while learning to use the program I clicked on the wizards button and it brought up some very interesting programs. When I tried to load the program it said I was "not licensed for this wizard"

Is the use of the pre-programed wizards an extra cost or do I need to activate this part of the mach3 program?

Thanks in advance
Jerrywi