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General Mach Discussion / Multipass for threadmilling wizard?
« on: December 23, 2007, 06:14:13 PM »
Could someone tell me if there is a way to multipass on the threadmilling wizard and I'm missing it? If its not already there do you have any suggestions how I could do it? I'm hesitant to go full depth on a piece of drill rod.
Thanks, Shepard

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General Mach Discussion / Mach's Keyway Wizard
« on: November 09, 2007, 08:26:05 AM »
I'm asking Mach's Keyway Wizard to cut .26 width with a 1/8 endmill but only get  1/8 slot. The gcode shows no change in y.  I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong. Could you get me back on track? Thank you,  Shepard 

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General Mach Discussion / units/min drop with backlash comp on
« on: November 04, 2007, 10:32:02 AM »
Hello,
I have cv and backlash comp enabled. My units/min show a steady decline until I come to a dead stop over 15-20 minutes. The slow down includes jogging as well. The shuttle accel is set very high (don't know why, it was that way when I first set up) but it cuts smoothly. I set the accel down to the recommended speeds and it stops moving smoothly and picks up a jerk I can't tweak out. If someone could tell me how to keep from bogging down I would greatly appreciate it. 

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General Mach Discussion / Changes X0 in middle of file, licensed ver 2.52
« on: October 04, 2007, 12:11:22 PM »

I'm a newbie cutting my first file but having a little trouble.  I've been cutting the same file over and over and about half the time Mach will change X0 in the middle of cutting the file. Sometimes it cuts just fine. When the problem occurs I can press "go to z" and it seems to be going to machine coordinate X0 rather than the X0 I get off the workpiece I had the same problem with ver 2.4? and updated to ver 2.52. Any help would be appreciated.
Shepard   

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LazyCam (Beta) / Chains getting scattered throughout the layers
« on: May 12, 2007, 03:49:40 PM »
Hello,
I’m using a licensed version of Lcam Pro. I imported a DXF that was working with the previous Lcam rev. When I try to undo a mistake with “oops” my chains get scattered throughout the layers and the layers are in a new cut order.  Also, I now can’t mouse click on all the chains inside the display window. I can, however, click on all of them in the tree.  I'm I doing something wrong (newbie) or is it a bug?
Thank you, Shepard

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G-Code, CAD, and CAM discussions / Bad number format (newbie)
« on: April 06, 2007, 12:29:34 PM »
Hello,
I'm starting out and playing with lcam and Mach3. I posted from LCAM to Mach3 and got "Bad number format on line 153." line 153 is:

N770 M6 T(TOOL Change)

Any pointers or good reference material to figure out how to solve this type of problem would be greatly appreciated.

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LazyCam (Beta) / Quick newbie question
« on: March 31, 2007, 11:02:47 AM »
Could someone tell me how to select multiple drill points so that I can add a drill layer. Each time I select a new drill point it deselects the previous one. Any help is appreciated, Shepard

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