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General Mach Discussion / will artsoft be at Westec in L.A. next week?

« on: March 25, 2006, 01:03:43 AM »

will artsoft be at Westec in L.A. next week?

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General Mach Discussion / what does "axis scales ar NZ" mean

« on: March 14, 2006, 07:49:39 PM »

I have an LED stating that "one or more axis scales ar NZ" in MACH2

I can not find anything in the manual about this or the forum? Anyone have a clue?

jh

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G-Code, CAD, and CAM discussions / tapping head cycle?

« on: March 07, 2006, 01:56:20 AM »

I have 395 holes to tap, I have a reversing tapping head, the reverse speed is twice as fast as the spindle rpm.

I can very closely match the z feed to the 10-24 pitch tap needed to feed down into the hole, but I need to retract at twice the infeed rate.

All the drilling cycles rapid back. The drag boring cycle will only feed back out at the infeed rate.

Is there an easy way to create a macro or subroutine call I can place in my Mach2 post  proccesor that I use through VisualCam to give me twice the feed rate out over the infeed rate?

Thanks for the insight

jh

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General Mach Discussion / changing a broken tool mid program run? Z height issue

« on: March 05, 2006, 06:45:47 PM »

Well, my first part, my first broken tool.

My .149 drill bit came loose in the chuck. That wasn't the problem, I paused the prog. , stopped the spindle and coolant then retracted the z axis. rezeroed the tool after tightening. resumed cycle, as the tool finished drilling and retracted then  moved to the next x, zing! the tool was about .200 to deep, milled a little curved slot and snap.

So, what is the proccedure for changing a tool mid program and getting the z height right?

thanks much for any wisdom,

jh

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General Mach Discussion / line number limitations?

« on: March 05, 2006, 02:21:24 AM »

When using Visual mill 5.0 and posting using teh Mach2 post setting line numbers to increment by 1 or 5 or 10, when the prog. is loaded into MAch2, in the program window the N line numbers will not go past 999. in the txt file of the prog the line numbers are sequnecial 1 thru 3892. I can  enter the line, say, 2334 into the "run from here" dro and it will jump to it, I can tell, the scroll bar scrolls down far but the window does not go beyond 999. is this a bug in Mach2 or do I have something not set in Mach to accept and display line numbers beyond 999?

thanks.

also, should I not be able to pause a program then enter single BLK mode and step through from there? My program always jumps back to the first line?

jh