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General Mach Discussion / Changing computers

« on: September 13, 2017, 10:19:54 PM »

What files do I need to copy to my new computer?

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General Mach Discussion / Ess smoothstepper

« on: April 15, 2017, 10:30:23 PM »

Stopped three times today while running a program.Other times it runs fine.I switched my older machine from usb to ess and it runs fine.Help

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General Mach Discussion / Z setting

« on: February 10, 2017, 10:02:03 PM »

I had my z home setting at -4.5 still not sure why.Now I lowered my router how do I know what to set it at now

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General Mach Discussion / Cutting to deep

« on: August 14, 2016, 02:12:03 PM »

I have my program set to cut .0625 and it is cutting .125. Any ideas?

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General Mach Discussion / Z axis will not go up

« on: June 04, 2016, 05:21:39 PM »

While running a program my machine stopped and the message said something about smoothstepper ran out of something now I cannot move the z axis up. All other axis move even the z diwn

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General Mach Discussion / Stopping program while running

« on: April 08, 2016, 12:09:14 AM »

I have had to Stop my program while running and when I press cycle start it seems to lose its place.Should I raise up the cutter before pressing cycle start?

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General Mach Discussion / cutter problem

« on: April 02, 2016, 05:47:09 PM »

I am cutting a .0625 deep 1/8 wide groove in birch plywood and this is what it looks like.Feedrate is ay 50% and router is at 23000 rpm.What would be the problem?Thanks

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General Mach Discussion / Mach Pendant for ipad

« on: December 09, 2015, 05:17:57 PM »

Has anyone used the mach pendant app.I have it working but cannot figure out the webcam part

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General Mach Discussion / program stops while cutting

« on: November 26, 2015, 07:42:50 PM »

I am using mach 3 with a usb smoothstepper,every so often it stops comunicating and I have to restart the computer.Today it stopped at 160460 and got lost so when I hit cycle start it cut right across my job.Is there a way to start where it stopped after a restart of the computer

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General Mach Discussion / safe z

« on: November 18, 2015, 03:57:33 PM »

I am setting up a new machine and wondering what I should set the safe z at.Is that the distance to stay above your clamps.My other machine is set to -0.5.