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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach3 pdf manual?

« on: January 13, 2020, 04:51:13 PM »

Thank you!!!!

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General Mach Discussion / Mach3 pdf manual?

« on: January 13, 2020, 02:43:16 PM »

I know there are videos on youtube about lots of stuff, BUT I have bad cell coverage and no wifi where I need it

I downloaded the Mach3 demo to play with it and like it, I just need to figure out what does what, Is there a PDF manual?

Also I programmed my first engraving and it runs smooth and looks right, basically running it in dryrun environment (nothing hooked up to it, I am waiting on a Parallel cable to connect to router and then set it up) it is letting me play with controls

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Losing computers

« on: January 03, 2020, 06:36:23 AM »

Why can't you retrieve files off the hard drive? actually just pull hard drive and install it another computer, with similar setup

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Code snippets

« on: January 02, 2020, 11:53:40 AM »

G90 is absolute mode and G91 is incremental mode.

In G90 mode say you have
G1 X1.0;
Y1.0;
X2.0;
Y2.0;
You are now 2.0 in the X from where you started and 2.0 in the Y from where you started.

In G91 mode, say you have
G1 X1.0;
Y1.0;
X2.0;
Y2.0;
You are now 3.0 in the X from where you started and 3.0 in the Y from where you started.

That would cause a problem or a crash, I personally have never used G91

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Code snippets

« on: December 31, 2019, 01:28:00 PM »

A weird thing happened today. I used the code and experimented with it by changing some parameters and it was working well, but suddenly it didn't work. I had run the code 20 or so times, then when it got to the line G1 Z-1 F10 (move to radius of hole) it stopped and would not go to the next line, even though I had not changed anything on that line, and it had been working fine.

I checked some other files with similar Z and X movements and they all worked.

Any ideas as to why this happened?

Best regards

Peter

May be a typo, you do not have an X or Y direction, you have it Feeding down to Z-1 and that is it (no feeding on the X/Y plane)