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General Mach Discussion / Re: HELP with Excel to Mach3

« on: March 07, 2022, 02:13:28 PM »

Thank you so much @JohnHaine I'll be making a donation to Medecin Sans Frontieres and I'll ask the owner to give a larger donation since you helped us save in techsuport. I see on their website they are even helping in Ukraine.
Again Thx

I know its not the correct forum, but if any one needs help with graphic design I'm more than happy to help out.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: HELP with Excel to Mach3

« on: January 01, 2022, 07:07:08 PM »

@ JohnHaine, Graham Waterworth sometimes it take a little bit of time to get back to test or try solution when there's covid outbreak and the company shuts down and you have no access to the machinery.
But I hope you can continue to help others, I appreciate your comments because it guided me to find a solution. Sorry if it took me a hile to get back with positive results. Either way thx,

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General Mach Discussion / Re: HELP with Excel to Mach3

« on: January 01, 2022, 07:02:08 PM »

Ok got it to work after may tries, thank you so much for your help.
I'm a newbie and it took me a while to understand G-code, and having no support form the machine manufacturer it took me a while linking the data and understand how it works from Gcode to the glass cutter. The hardest part was understanding the machine uses XY coordinates to make the cut and not actual numbers.

But your code worked perfectly once I understood how it works.

Please DM your PayPal SO I can buy you some coffee or beer.
Thx

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General Mach Discussion / Re: HELP with Excel to Mach3

« on: November 29, 2021, 08:58:01 PM »

You could write an excel macro to create the G-Code.

All you need is a basic script to insert the values that change.

This video may help
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bY7w4YJNyhw

Thank you guys for your help, I'm completely lost but that video helped a lot figuring out the structure of the content in the file, as far as the file format that would be readable by Mach3. What file format should I use for output?
I have a macro that outputs a .csv file, but I can also make it output it to .txt file

This is what file looks like this when I open it in notepad. Im still working on making the decimals show as xx.xx


WIDTH,HEIGHT
12.25,54
6,32
22,34.25
28.5,21.8125
38,86.8125
21.1875,75.8125
9.125,83.8125


I hope Mach3 can take those two measurements an is able to make the cuts on the table cutter.

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General Mach Discussion / HELP with Excel to Mach3

« on: November 29, 2021, 06:12:05 PM »

I need help with exporting excel data to Mach 3.
We manufacture windows and Doors and we use Mach 3 and an Aculite EconoCut Cutting table to cut glass sheets. we currently input manually all cutting sizes for each glass panel.

We use excel to create the work orders and to create a "cut list" so the operator can input manually all sizes.
But I'm trying to see if I can import the width and Height already in our excel data into Mach3, I'm able to export in .csv and .txt.

But can I use those formats to import the width and height into Mach3? I see that when the operator manually imports the measurements it creates a file .acu that the cutter machine uses to cut the glass sheets.

Can anyone give me some guidance?

Thank in advance
Martin