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General Mach Discussion / machine drags when backlash compensation turned on.

« on: February 07, 2010, 04:51:40 PM »

I just installed a new version of mach3 mill and my mill drags every time it reverses direction. I tried imputing different percentages of full speed but
didn't see much difference. Anyone have a solution for this.
Thanks
Wawatobi

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General Mach Discussion / transfer old setup parameters to newer version of Mach

« on: January 10, 2010, 05:42:11 PM »

I just installed a newer version of Mach 3 to a new computer. How do I transfer my old setup parameters to the new version?

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General Mach Discussion / Program stops when backlash compensation is enabled.

« on: December 06, 2009, 05:43:25 PM »

I posted this problem quite some time ago and could not find a solution. My machine stops quite often when I use backlash compensation. Then I have to re-index and start the job over again. I run my Taig mill without backlash compensation and get by but there are a lot of jobs I cannot do without backlash compensation. Anybody know if the latest versions have addresses this problem? My version is at least three years old.
R. H.

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General Mach Discussion / Click jog and mill doesn't stop

« on: October 28, 2006, 04:50:42 PM »

I've been using Mach3 for a month and a half now and I think it is a great improvement over my last milling software but it has been
a rough transition. One recurring problem I have been having is that when I'm jogging sometimes the mill continues on when I take my
finger off the mouse button. I'v ruined a couple of expensive bits because of this. Also bored  a nice hole in my machine.  I thought it might be a defect
with my mouse but I bought another mouse and have the same problem. It only happens once in a while, perhaps once or twice a week. Anybody out there
have this problem?  I thought at first that I might have pressed two buttons on the mouse at the same time or something like that but I'm quite careful now
and I still have the problem.

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General Mach Discussion / Program E-Stop in middle of jobs

« on: October 21, 2006, 12:30:37 PM »

I recently upgraded my Taig mill with their new DSLS system. I am having problems with the machine shutting down in the middle of jobs with unprogrammed e-stops.
This is very frustrating because I have to reinitialise each time this happens. I tried using a debounce of 5000 as suggested but I'm still having the problem. I
have to run below 25% of max speed to avoid these stops. I do not have the problem when moving at high speed while manually jogging the axes.  Also, I am only
cutting wax. Anybody have any ideas?

Thanks, Wawatobi

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General Mach Discussion / Mach 3 thinks I predssed e-stop when deskproto dongle attached .

« on: August 17, 2006, 04:45:54 PM »

Mach 3 will not run with my DeskProto dongle attached to the computer. The program thinks I hit the e-stop button. Also, Deskproto does not
recognise the dongle if my mill driver is attached to it. Anybody have this problem?

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General Mach Discussion / Mach 3 looses position co-ordinates turned off.

« on: August 15, 2006, 08:33:38 PM »

I have been using MPS2000 with my Taig Mill for several years . I've switched to Mach 3 and am having some problems. With MPS2000, when I turn off the program and the turn it on again. the position co-ordiantes are remembered by the program. When I turn Mach 3 off and turn it on again, the position co-ordiantes are changed. I get by this problem by repositioning to 0,0,0 at the end of a run before closing then when I turn the machine on again I zero the axies manually. There must be somewhere in the parameters where I can toggle a switch or something to force the program to remember its position after rebooting.

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General Mach Discussion / scaling different axes for different speeds.

« on: August 15, 2006, 08:24:54 PM »

I've just upgraded my Taig mill with microproto's new dsls "servo" system which uses Mach 3 as the post processor. The biggest problem I have is with the different speeds of the x,y,z, and 4th axis. When I'm using the 4th axis, the angular motion of the 4th axis is much slower than the movement in the x direction. If I increase the speed, the cutter moves too fast through the material (wax). Is there a way to scale the speed of one axis without affecting the speed of the other axis?