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General Mach Discussion / vision engraver running mach 3

« on: February 10, 2010, 09:09:47 AM »

Our company just acquired several Vision engravers that use the Vision pro & software. After evaluating the Vision Pro sotware we decided it's not going to work very well. We use BOBCAD on other machines that work well. We want to control the Vision evgravers (X,Y,Z) by using the Mach 3 control program. My question is has anyone done this already? Can anyone provide a starting configuration file?

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Auto detecting and zeroing of z axis

« on: December 14, 2009, 01:49:15 PM »

Thanks, my cutter is a router and i'm cutting a wax block, so nothing is conductive. Could i mount a simple contact switch (or proximity switch)  next to the cutter and move to a defined offset each time to auto zero? Accuracy is not a big issue. Does this mean that i would have to create a macro to search for the contact switch or does this already exist?

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General Mach Discussion / Auto detecting and zeroing of z axis

« on: December 13, 2009, 02:57:28 PM »

Is it possible have MACH3 monitor a switch or something to detect the height of a part and then zero the z axis?
I  have been cutting an item that varies from part to part only in the Z height, I have been placing several down on a grid  (4x4) and using an offset to move to next cutting location. The biggest downside has been I need to touch down and re-zero every time.
it would be great to just run the g code an the first line was a command that went to the z calibration setting and recalculated the new contact point.

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General Mach Discussion / crop circles

« on: August 31, 2007, 03:15:37 PM »

Can someone help? I have BOBCAD V21 and Mach 2 programs. I have used them for sometime now. On a regular basis i get the crop circles in Mach 2 after converting text into G code using BOBCAD. I understand it has something to do with the accuracy and chain gaps setting but i can't seem to find a solution for some cases.
Is there a setting within Mach 2 that can help with this?

Thanks
Mike