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General Mach Discussion / Greetings Mach3 Users-- I am about to tear all of my hair out.
« on: December 13, 2008, 08:34:33 AM »
I am new to CNC. I bought a brand new taig mill, mach3, Meshcam.. yadda yadda.
Well, option one- using the old laptop i have here failed. SO- i went out and bought a brand new PC desktop with enough processor and ram to run three of these. (in theory).
Well, im still having the same issues with missing steps.. and its not even a couple steps over the duration of the program.. its missing a lot, causing it to be way off. SO- i figured because i bought a machine that was a turnkey, and it was only pulling about 10 IPM id upgrade to a gecko G540 and all the problems will be solved.
BUZZER--- wrong.. still having same issues. I have tried a lot of different adjustments and the only thing left is the following--
now these are all just theorys...
#1-- could the fact that my machine has an onboard video card be causing this? I mean, really? even if i have the tool path screen turned off and i am on the settings screen? Sounds like a very small wound on a very large animal..
#2-- could their be a problem with the way Meshcam is writing files?
#3-- could there be a problem with Mach3? I ask this because it seems my driver test screen is way different than the one in the manual-- (mine says mach2)
I dont know what else to do- I have now put about 4k into this project and i still have a VERY unreliable machine. Im wasting time... im wasting wax.... when this machine messed up last week-- it broke tw brand new 35.00 end mills...
I need help.
Well, option one- using the old laptop i have here failed. SO- i went out and bought a brand new PC desktop with enough processor and ram to run three of these. (in theory).
Well, im still having the same issues with missing steps.. and its not even a couple steps over the duration of the program.. its missing a lot, causing it to be way off. SO- i figured because i bought a machine that was a turnkey, and it was only pulling about 10 IPM id upgrade to a gecko G540 and all the problems will be solved.
BUZZER--- wrong.. still having same issues. I have tried a lot of different adjustments and the only thing left is the following--
now these are all just theorys...
#1-- could the fact that my machine has an onboard video card be causing this? I mean, really? even if i have the tool path screen turned off and i am on the settings screen? Sounds like a very small wound on a very large animal..
#2-- could their be a problem with the way Meshcam is writing files?
#3-- could there be a problem with Mach3? I ask this because it seems my driver test screen is way different than the one in the manual-- (mine says mach2)
I dont know what else to do- I have now put about 4k into this project and i still have a VERY unreliable machine. Im wasting time... im wasting wax.... when this machine messed up last week-- it broke tw brand new 35.00 end mills...
I need help.
