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General Mach Discussion / problem im at a loss with

« on: August 07, 2016, 06:30:30 PM »

building a mill with a sieg X2 mini mill, my first attempt at a cnc mill. ive been using mach3 and sheetcam for plasma cutting for several years and both work great, now my problem. i am doing my first part its just 2 straight lines with some lettering in between the lines and 3 holes below the lines, a pretty simple part. i did the lines and holes in turbo cad and add the lettering with sheetcam. everything in sheetcam looks correct but when i cut it on the mill everything is squeezed together about 1/4" but everything still looks proportionally correct, the lettering isnt weird shaped which leads me to believe the axis's arent way far off (i first though maybe my X axis was off) any ideas?

thanks,
Justin

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General Mach Discussion / no jog

« on: November 05, 2011, 01:10:45 AM »

got the software loaded and all the pinouts set like geckodrive wants them. i can get my computer to turn on the G540 but all i get it holding torque but no jog the jog button is on but neither the flyout or the keyboard do anything. i loaded the software on another computer and could get the jog to work on screen but the parralel port seems to be dead because it doesn't do anything. can low memory cause this? the computer i am using only has 384mb of ram (i'm waiting on some 512mb sticks) was hoping to move around the gantry a little but not yet