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General Mach Discussion / Delta DMCnet and Mach

« on: January 05, 2024, 05:38:25 PM »

I have purchased a Chinese stone cutting gantry router and it has problems that are frustrating me. It is like Groundhog Day every time I restart the machine. It reverts to all it's old settings - including removing any G-code files that I load. It has developed a fault, that I previously managed to remedy but it has come back.
The operating system is W7 Embedded and the motion control software is in Chinese and Delta haven't replied to my enquiries about getting an English version.
I am now wanting to try running Mach3 as I am familiar with it.
The machine has all Delta hardware and the servo drives are ASDA B3  controlled by DMCnet, which is Ethernet, I think, and RS485 for the rest of the control.
Can I use Mach3 or 4 with this setup.
Any help woul be much appreciated.   Ross

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LazyTurn / DXF opening error: 0

« on: July 24, 2010, 06:05:53 PM »

I don't want anyone to get me wrong here. I am an absolute fan of this software and it's concept but there are a few frustrations on the part to Nirvana.
I have finally got LazyTurn working on my desktop 'puter but I just cannot get a dxf file to open.
I am presented with Error Found, LazyTurn Art Code: O, Attempt Recovery.
And clicking yes has no effect, while clicking no asks me to send a message to MS and then shuts down LazyTurn.
I cannot find any reference to Art Code: 0 anywhere.
Some help please.
Is there going to be a standalone install for LazyTurn sometime?

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General Mach Discussion / Misplaced Table Display

« on: January 04, 2010, 11:12:34 PM »

Hi,
I am still in the process of retrofitting an Extron milling machine and have it up and running with Mach3 and a Kanalog/Kflop board.
It's working well but I am having difficulties with the table display.
I have watched the video tutorials, numerous times, and my table display is a dotted outline, rather than the solid brown of the video, and the crosshairs are magenta instead of yellow. Is this an upgrade to Mach3 since the video was done or a problem with my setup?

The machine Homes with the table running left, in the X axis, and away from the column in the Y axis, and up in the Z axis.
These are all in the positive direction.
So, by my reckoning, the Home position is the back righthand corner of my table. But that is not how the video tutorial shows it.

To back out of the Home position I have to press the lefthand (-) arrow, on the Jog control screen.

But the table display, when I load G-code, appears in the upper right section of the screen with the drawing in the lower left.
The table is 965mm in the X axis and 460 in the Y axis.
Using a clockface as an analogy, loading the Roadrunner file puts it as a speck down at about 8 o'clock with the table display up in the 12 - 3 o'clock sector.

I need some help to reduce my confusion here

Any suggestions??

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FAQs / Milling Machine Retrofit

« on: October 27, 2009, 09:59:48 PM »

I have a milling machine and I want to upgrade it to run Mach3.

It has Panasonic MDM102A1G servos, which are 1Kw 230V AC, with MDD103A1W drives/controllers.

The existing software is running Dos 6.2 so I need to replace the proprietary computer hardware.

I have the computer with XP running which I need to connect with the Panasonic drives/controllers.
They supply the AC and encoder voltages to the servos.

My question is - what hardware - boards do I need for this?
I am still on a fairly steep learning curve with all of this.

Any help would be much appreciated.