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General Mach Discussion / Re: 3040 cnc engraver / router

« on: April 05, 2015, 04:17:05 AM »

actually I bought a really old ace travelmate 290 (OS in russian!)
i have just reinstalled english XP and its running router no probs. test program gave results as "excellent"
took me about 20 mins to set up the config. No changes to laptop config were required.

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General Mach Discussion / 3040 cnc engraver / router

« on: March 30, 2015, 04:10:04 AM »

any of you chaps using mach3 to run one of these 3 axis chinese machines? if so are you using usb converter successfully. Are there any tricks to the setting up?

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LazyTurn / new to lazyturn question

« on: March 14, 2015, 10:58:06 AM »

is it possible to change the format of the gcode? for example to output for a specific machine (EMCO) which needs gcode line in the form of...
N00 G00 X100 Z-100 F30
also units are microns not mm

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General Mach Discussion / Re: new to lazyturn, help!

« on: March 14, 2015, 10:21:11 AM »

have got it, was trying to save to mem stick and despite the folders and path being correct lazyturn saved in the mach folder but tried to open file from specified folder and of course its not there!
thanks for help

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General Mach Discussion / Re: new to lazyturn, help!

« on: March 14, 2015, 08:40:33 AM »

just to further explain, lazyturn does not appear to create the file with the name you set. after you click "save" notepad produces error "cant find file *********.tap create new?"

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General Mach Discussion / new to lazyturn, help!

« on: March 14, 2015, 08:33:01 AM »

just starting with lazyturn to hopefully create gcode for my emco compact 5 cnc.

Am creating dxf files in Qcad which lazyturn happily loads and displays. can create tool paths and run the simulation. However i am totally failing to save the gcode, I use the PST button but the file is created empty. I have tried selecting the toolpath before using PST to no avail.

what am I doing wrong here?

regards