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Building or Buying a Wood routing table.. Beginnners guide.. / Re: machinebed versus Mach3

« on: January 16, 2019, 11:55:44 AM »

I do use A TC-50M as a controller.  No centronicsport but USB

step pulse and dir pulse where advised to be Zero, I will put 5 in there.

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Building or Buying a Wood routing table.. Beginnners guide.. / Re: machinebed versus Mach3

« on: January 16, 2019, 11:24:56 AM »

@TPS request screenshot of

Config->Motor Tuning -> X-axis and
Config->Motor Tuning -> Y-axis

i used the Prusa calculator
https://www.prusaprinters.org/calculator/

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Building or Buying a Wood routing table.. Beginnners guide.. / Re: machinebed versus Mach3

« on: January 16, 2019, 09:58:07 AM »

now i am confused,
my motor = Nmea23 200 steps per revolution
my pulley is a 20 teeth 2mm pitch
my belt is 2mm pitch.

my driver (DQ540MA) is set to 1600pulses per revolution. (1600/200=8) to get 8 microsteps.
X-axis and Y-axis are the same setup,  but the Y-axis is going way faster than the X=axis,
and i can not find a solution

What did i do wrong....

Thomass

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Building or Buying a Wood routing table.. Beginnners guide.. / Re: machinebed versus Mach3

« on: January 16, 2019, 08:28:27 AM »

Aha, you calibrated in CENTIMETERS, should be in MILIMETERS!!

In my vision, there are only 2 places where we can input those sizes.
1 in config and 2 in settings. On both places MM is set.

"How fas would to move X axis", you should type 250. That is 25cm
So, go to motor tuning and change your steps per by dividing them by 10 (ALL AXES), and repeat, just in case, calibration procedure.
Keep in mind that you should consider all measures in MILIMETERS.

calculation of my motortuning, 200 steps per revolution, a pulley of 20 toots and a pitch of 2mm and 1/8 micro stepping  tells me 400 (if i did the right way of calculating)
But, i will, when i get home, do the motor tuning over again because, yes, what you said makes sense in my mind...
Thomass

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Building or Buying a Wood routing table.. Beginnners guide.. / Re: machinebed versus Mach3

« on: January 13, 2019, 10:42:46 AM »

What i did til now:
open tab: Settings
above the reset button set steps per unit.
use the X-axis.
on the question "how far would you like to move the X axis" i did fil in 25
with the settings as i did, the axis moves exactly 25cm
on the following question i did answer yes.

I repeated this with different lengths as in X as in Y.

Can the G-code actually change the size of my board

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Building or Buying a Wood routing table.. Beginnners guide.. / Re: machinebed versus Mach3

« on: January 13, 2019, 07:27:25 AM »

i did already so (forgot to mention)
25 cm in the test is 25 cm as respond.. and i did this test On the X, Y (A) en Z axis, repeatedly  and no difference.

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Building or Buying a Wood routing table.. Beginnners guide.. / Re: machinebed versus Mach3

« on: January 13, 2019, 07:09:50 AM »

Great....

I did ask about the settings in  motorHome/softLimits. and i did got an answer.
But ar those settings in MM, CM, or machine units.
The reason why i ask is':
In the settings as shown below, if i load a pre-made gcode like Roadrunner, all seems to be well.
but when i load an self-made gcode (vectric) the sizes will be not as planed.
and when i jog on the X axis the full length of my waste board (790mm) it wil go only 1/4th on the screen,
where do i go wrong ...

Thomas

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Building or Buying a Wood routing table.. Beginnners guide.. / Re: machinebed versus Mach3

« on: January 11, 2019, 09:29:57 AM »

so what is the Problem?

would German be easier for you?

It is not the language it self, merely the way of writing, understanding and remember this all.
as i told before (somewhere) I am a absolute beginner,  Have some problem with words and abbreviations 
There is so much information, difficult to remember it all.    So I have to do it Bit by Bit and a lot of questions..
Thomss

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General Mach Discussion / Re: New to site - Mach3 homing support needed

« on: January 11, 2019, 06:18:28 AM »

maybe your acceleration is so "soft" that the axis is not able to stop on the Limit Switch ?

What do you mean with "soft" in the above context  ??

Thomss

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Building or Buying a Wood routing table.. Beginnners guide.. / Re: machinebed versus Mach3

« on: January 10, 2019, 01:31:29 PM »

have a look here:

as i said in the beginning, That is what i did read the last period. also, English is not my daily language to understand this fully..