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General Mach Discussion / setup
« on: February 24, 2013, 09:30:50 PM »
hello,I need a little help....ok...a LOT of help. Doing the math for my steps per unit, I come up with 20000. But when I calibrate the axis, it changes it to like 150000. but if i set the motors to this 150,000 then the motors stall. why?

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General Mach Discussion / mach3 purchase question
« on: January 28, 2013, 01:56:11 PM »
Here is my situation....
I have yet to purchase a mach3 license. Still working in demo mode to work out some bugs. My computer for my machine isnt hooked to the internet. Didnt want any problems with viruses spam or whatever.
Question is ...when I purchase the license, am I going to be able to put it on a disk and transfer it to the offline computer?
Also, I have bobcad cam. Will I be able to draft my project on my laptop and put the code on a disk and cut it on the other offline computer?
I work on the road a lot, and have time at the other end to draft my projects. Kind of wanted to use my downtime away from home to do the drafting and come home and do the milling.

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General Mach Discussion / getting started
« on: January 28, 2013, 11:27:30 AM »
hey everyone. i started building my own cnc a couple years ago. I had a friend that understood the software,but had to move and now cant reach him for support.   i downloaded mach3 trial version onto my computer a while back. Had the motors running, but couldn't get any real speed out of it. literally about 5 inches a minute. T he DRO's wouldn't calibrate. I would move it an inch and the DRO would be at huge numbers. No pattern.
  So, if all else fails, go to the beginning. I thought maybe I had a corrupt or old mach3 download. I loaded it onto a disk to put on the cnc computer. The computer for the machine doesnt have internet access. So, saved the mach3 to a disk two years ago, hence the reason i thought it may be old. Saved a "fresh" download of mach3 and uninstalled other one and installed this one.
   Now i cant get any movement from the machine at all.

Please help. Any positive feedback and suggestions would be a godsend....

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