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General Mach Discussion / "Allow wav files"

« on: March 07, 2013, 01:45:37 PM »

In the Mach3 general logic configuration screen a checkbox is present to "allow wav files"   also, "allow speech"

I have an application that could benefit from playing .wav files for at different times during a part program.  Is that the intent of these functions?  Is there any documentation on these?

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G-Code, CAD, and CAM discussions / Full Circle vs quadrants

« on: March 01, 2013, 11:45:40 AM »

I read in the Mach 3 manual, and elsewhere that using circular interpolation (G3)  with a full 360 degrees (or even 180) is very bad.  But I seem to see constant examples of folks doing it - some very experienced folks.

Is this business of doing a quadrant at a time just a legacy limitation, and is now OK?  Or is it still a bad idea?  or is it controller dependent?   It is a lot easier to program one block to do it, but I don't want to invite trouble ...