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I have the following items for sale. They are all in good working order. I'm selling them because I've decided to move to a Centroid Acorn control board and these items are no longer needed.

Ethernet Smooth Stepper $90
CNC4PC C35 Quick Setup Breakout Board $20
CNC4PC C6   Variable Speed Control Board $20
VistaCNC iMach P1A-S pendant (http://vistacnc.com/b07_pendant_P1/pendant_p1A-S.htm) $90.

I'm going to miss using the VistaCNC pendant. It really made working with Mach3 a lot easier. They are still supported by VistaCNC. Unfortunately they don't support Centroid.

Please contact me through PM or chrisattebery1971(AT)gmail(DOT)com

Thanks,


Chris

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Hello,

I recently reinstalled Mach3 on a new PC. When I did I set the text editor and pdf viewers incorrectly. Now i just get an error message when I try to edit gcode or open the manuals. How can i reset the text editor and pdf viewer to different tools?

Thanks,


Chris

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General Mach Discussion / Loading old setup onto new Mach3 install with ESS
« on: November 18, 2015, 03:00:33 PM »
Hello,

My controller PC had started to blue screen so I bought a newer machine. It is a Core2 Duo, 3 GB ram, onboard graphics(for now), with Win7 32 loaded. I installed Mach3(3.043.066, same as I was running before), MachStandardMill and the latest ESS plugin(ESS_v10r2d1d). Then I ran the SCU program. It completed and I can see the ESS and there aren't any numbers below BootPRxd. So far so good.

Now, if I create a new Mach setup I get the ESS not configured message. I typed in the address as 10.9.9.9 and then Mach will start. I looked at the ESS IP Config and it shows that the address is 255.255.255.255. I could see the status change when I pressed my cycle start and pause buttons.

I tried to reload my setup from the old controller by copying the xml to the Mach3 directory. Then I restarted Mach3 with this setup. I get the message stating that the ESS cannot be contacted, press Yes to retry, not to configure, etc. I select No and type in 10.9.9.9 for the address. but Mach never connects to the ESS.

Any suggestions? Needless to say I really don't want to have to reenter all of the setup data by hand again.

Thanks!


Chris

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I just started using Fusion 360 for my CAM tool. I was using SheetCAM before and its drilling routines were all just G01 moves. It was very quick between holes. Fusion is using canned cycles and they seem to have a 1-2 second delay between X/Y moves between holes. Here is the offending code:

...
G98 G73 X0.425 Y-0.665 Z-0.85 R-0.3 Q0.1 F13.5
X1.425
X4.575
X5.575
G80
...

Is there any way to speed this up? The PC I'm using has a 3.4GHz  Pentium 4 with 3Gb of RAM. I'm running an Ethernet Smooth Stepper in the controller. I've tried upping the lookahead from 20 to 200 and that made no difference. Any suggestions?

Thanks,


Chris

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I've been using SheetCAM for a couple years and I've never seen this error until now. I started using MeshCAM recently and if I run a SheetCAM .tap to cut the parts free from the stock after I run the MeshCAM .nc I get these errors:
Radius to end of arc differs from radius to start , Block = N0170 G02 X0.9703 Y5.0108 Z-0.1250 I0.0026 J-0.0059 F27.0
Line 16


Here's the SheetCAM code:
N0010 (Filename: Space Cowboy Fin x2 TRIM.tap)
N0020 (Post processor: Mach3.scpost)
N0030 (Date:20/02/2015 Time:08:30:28)
N0040 G20 (Units: Inches)
N0050 G40 G90 G91.1
N0060 F1
N0070 (Part: Space Cowboy Fin x2 BOTTOM)
N0080 (Operation: Outside Offset, Fin Profile, T15: Mill/router, 0.156 in diameter, 0.125 in Deep)
N0090 (3 Flute Carbide End Mill)
N0100 S4500 (Mill/router, 0.156 in diameter)
N0110 T15 M06
N0120  G43 H15
N0130 S4500 M03
N0140 G00 X8.8715 Y1.0347
N0150 Z0.0300
N0160 G01 Z-0.125 F13.5
N0170 G02 X8.8627 Y1.0327 Z-0.1250 I-0.0054 J0.0034 F27.0
N0180 G01 X8.4536 Y1.2927 Z-0.125
N0190 X8.4521 Y1.2936
N0200 X4.3612 Y3.7936
N0210 G03 X4.3101 Y3.8080 Z-0.1250 I-0.0511 J-0.0836
N0220 G01 X3.3101 Z-0.125
N0230 G03 X3.2886 Y3.8056 Z-0.1250 I0.0000 J-0.0980
N0240 G01 X2.1749 Y3.5555 Z-0.125
N0250 G03 X2.1072 Y3.5004 Z-0.1250 I0.0215 J-0.0956
N0260 G01 X1.0845 Y1.2506 Z-0.125
N0270 X1.0839 Y1.2492
N0280 X0.9703 Y0.9892
N0290 G03 X1.0601 Y0.8520 Z-0.1250 I0.0898 J-0.0392
N0300 G01 X3.6117 Z-0.125
N0310 G00 Z0.0000
N0320 G01 X4.5177 Z0.000
N0330 Z-0.125 F13.5
N0340 X8.8101 F27.0
N0350 G02 X8.8165 Y0.8456 Z-0.1250 I0.0000 J-0.0064
N0360 G00 Z0.2500
N0370 X3.1285 Y4.9653
N0380 Z0.0300
N0390 G01 Z-0.125 F13.5
N0400 G02 X3.1373 Y4.9673 Z-0.1250 I0.0054 J-0.0034 F27.0
N0410 G01 X3.5464 Y4.7073 Z-0.125
N0420 X3.5479 Y4.7064
N0430 X7.6388 Y2.2064
N0440 G03 X7.6899 Y2.1920 Z-0.1250 I0.0511 J0.0836
N0450 G01 X8.6899 Z-0.125
N0460 G03 X8.7114 Y2.1944 Z-0.1250 I0.0000 J0.0980
N0470 G01 X9.8251 Y2.4445 Z-0.125
N0480 G03 X9.8928 Y2.4996 Z-0.1250 I-0.0215 J0.0956
N0490 G01 X10.9155 Y4.7494 Z-0.125
N0500 X10.9161 Y4.7508


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General Mach Discussion / Lost my tool table
« on: September 11, 2014, 12:32:29 PM »
 I've been using Mach Standard Mill for about 18 months and had saved all of my tools in the Mach tool table. I upgraded my milling machine this summer and added an Ethernet Smooth Stepper and spindle speed control so I created a new profile in MSM. I did not reinstall Mach3 or MSM. After a long break I started using the mill again this week and found that all of my saved tools are gone. I've been using the function built in to MSM to save the stock tool table and it has worked fine up until this point. Is there any way to recover it? What is the name of the stock mach internal tool table?

"The save button does the same operation that Mach3 has traditionally done: it saves the memory tool table to a (Mach3 internal use only) disk file."

Thanks,


Chris

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G-Code, CAD, and CAM discussions / How to repeat a subroutine infinitely?
« on: January 29, 2014, 04:36:55 PM »
Hello,

I have a few jobs where I need to load a tool and then run a few short operations on multiple parts in my vice. I'd like to set up my code so that I load the tool in Mach3 once and then repeat the machining ops multiple times.

Would the following work? Would I just hit Stop after the last part?

-----------------------------
(program start)
M6 T1 (tool change)
G43 H1 (apply TLO)

M98 P1 L9999 (call subroutine)

M30 (end program)

O1
M0 (load part and hit cycle start)
(do some operations)
M99

----------------------------


Thanks,


Chris

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General Mach Discussion / Vista CNC P1A-S disabled during tool changes
« on: December 30, 2012, 09:34:42 AM »
Hello,

I just got a P1A-S pendant from Vista CNC for Christmas. So far I really like it. I have one issue I want to clear up though.

When I'm running a program and it asks for a tool change I want to use the pendant to set my tool offset manually. Unfortunately the pendant's MPG is disabled once I hit Cycle Start. Is there a way to enable it during tool changes?

Thanks,


Chris

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