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FAQs / Re: G03

« on: May 23, 2015, 10:57:02 AM »

I need new eyes.

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FAQs / Re: G03

« on: May 04, 2015, 07:50:43 PM »

Thanks, Overloaded, the G91.1 did the trick but the G90.1 producer the same circle as I had before. Very interesting. Never had to use G90.1/91.1 with EMC2.

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FAQs / G03

« on: May 04, 2015, 02:19:36 PM »

I'm having a problem with the G03 command. Straight line moves In X, Y or Z are to scale but when I try a G03, the scale seems to grow. I simplified the code to produce a circle but I still get a much bigger circle and with the wrong center.

Here is the code:

N010 G17 G20 G40 G50 90
N020 G01 X0 Y0 Z.1 F5
N040 G01 Z-.0
N050 G01 X.5
N060 G03 X.5 Y0 I-.5 J0
N080 G01 X0
N120 G01 X0 Y0 Z1

This produces a circle with a diameter of about2", with the center at about X-.5 Y0.

Anybody have any ideas what could be wrong?

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: New people welcome !! Come in here and introduce your self!

« on: October 29, 2014, 03:32:15 PM »

Hi all, My name is Doug Rundell and I am new to this forum. I've been using EMC2 and a Sherline driver for about 10 years. Recently my motor driver gave up the ghost so I bought a G540. Had trouble making it work with EMC2 so I downloaded Mach3. Because I was running EMC2 on a Linux box I couldn't (or didn't want to) put Mach3 on it. Got my wife a new (cheap) lap top and took over her XP box. It's taking a long time to get all the settings correct and last night loaded the G540 .html file and loaded it into Mach3. Finally I got the green LED to light when the charge pump is turned on. Now when I try to run a program the motors click and the two LEDs toggling back and forth. I'm ready to shoot myself.