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General Mach Discussion / Re: X & Y motors mounted backwards, how to orient everything??

« on: December 04, 2017, 02:10:09 PM »

Thanks for the replies everyone. I finally got it figured out.

I admit, part the reason was the fixed gantry confusing me (total newbie mistake). When the table was moving my mind wasn't on the same page as the table display. it assumes a moving gantry basically. hope that makes sense. so glad to get over this hurdle

jogging, table display, and actual parts work as expected now. I just have to keep reminding myself the crosshair is the spindle location on the table, and the gantry isn't moving hahhaa

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General Mach Discussion / X & Y motors mounted backwards, how to orient everything??

« on: December 03, 2017, 04:52:42 PM »

I have my Y axis motor on the back of the machine, X axis motor on the right side. you'd think just checking 'reverse' in homing/limits would be all it takes right? unfortunately, no

its either 1 thing or another. the jogging is backwards, the table display, or the actual parts. is there any way to actually make this work?

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Simple Draw test??

« on: March 18, 2017, 12:57:47 PM »

On the wizard direction try the 0 degrees button and I think the depth of cut you dont put a negative number because the program knows it is the depth

I got it all figured out now

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Got my 1st cut done!!! :) :) :)

« on: March 18, 2017, 12:05:35 PM »

Thanks!

do I just need to enable the mirror option to get the letters like on the display?

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General Mach Discussion / Got my 1st cut done!!! :) :) :)

« on: March 17, 2017, 10:27:39 PM »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9UghRgq0CI

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Simple Draw test??

« on: March 17, 2017, 06:56:01 PM »

You have your Y start defined in the wizard as +4.6***. Change that to 0. Also, make sure the size of the job can be ran within your soft limits. Make the text smaller if you have to for testing.

You would do yourself a big favor to take the time now to learn the basics of the Gcode programming language (machine coordinates, work coordinates, incremental moves and absolute moves and their relationship to each other) and the right hand rule. Wikipedia and CNCcookbook have a lot of good info. on Gcode.

Thanks, I learned a ton today. I actually got the draw to work finally! the marker tip is a bit messed up from all the previous attempts, but it was nice to see it work

I'm ready to try the engraving now. For some reason the depth won't allow me to enter a negative number though, puzzled as to why? I can enter negative numbers on other things in the setup

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Simple Draw test??

« on: March 17, 2017, 03:28:15 PM »

ok here's where I'm at. I think I need to get rid of all the travel distance before it starts trying to write the numbers?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zaNNxz0LAk

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Simple Draw test??

« on: March 16, 2017, 11:35:36 AM »

thanks for all the replies. I still don't see how to use it with a marker, like making the machine a plotter, but at least I can get gcode now

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Simple Draw test??

« on: March 15, 2017, 04:20:19 PM »

doesn't come natural for me, sorry. terms have no examples of what they do ect.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Simple Draw test??

« on: March 15, 2017, 03:53:00 PM »

as silly as it sounds I after building the entire machine I can't figure out how to use that lol

I jog the Z down where the marker is barely touching the paper, zero the Z, enter the text in the wizard, and then?

I never get any gcode from the wizard.. idk like I said it might sound crazy but I don't find it user friendly...