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Newfangled Solutions Mach3 Wizards / Is there any way to have the pocketing ops ramp down rather than directly plunge

« on: July 20, 2011, 01:05:19 PM »

I'm currently using my CNC Sherline mill to cut parts for another CNC conversion, and the parts involve several deep pockets.
Because the Z Axis on the Sherline is not the most robust thing in the world I have to set the plunge rate to some ridiculously low value, it's made worse because the wizard uses the plunge rate from the safe Z height, on a 0.8 inch pocket I actually spend more time watching the cutter plunge from the safe Z height than I do watching it cut.
Is there anyway in the wizard to have the cutter ramp in, or use the rapid speeds until it's closer to the material?

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General Mach Discussion / New machine XP or Win7?

« on: June 27, 2011, 02:03:03 PM »

I currently running EMC2 on my Mill, I built a new computer for controlling the mill this weekend based on an atom board, and I thought I'd give Mach3 a try.
So I installed a copy of XP, and the Mach3 demo.
The convenience of the wizards has me considering changing over from EMC2.
Since I haven't used XP in years and my XP licenses all seem to have gotten lost/thrown out at some point I'll have to buy an OS either XP or Win7, which is the better OS for Mach?