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General Mach Discussion / m11 and m10 commands

« on: March 21, 2017, 03:59:02 PM »

hi you lovely people
I am having trouble using the m10 and m11 commands
I have read a lot of threads but no luck
I am able to turn my laser on - off with the spindle or m3 m5 commands
in the motor outputs I have it set as step pin 2 step port 1
output signal is set to port1 pin3
spindle set up is use motor outputs pwm

so I tried m11p1
              g0 z1
to turn on laser and nothing

can somone please tell me what I am doing wrong

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Third party software and hardware support forums. / rotary machining problem

« on: February 19, 2017, 05:26:13 PM »

hi there peeps

I am having a problem with rotary machining
I think it might be the way I have mach3 set up
I have a file made in vetric aspire
when trying to machine this file at first I set a vector boundary beyond the file so as to machine all of it but when I machined it it put a deep gouge in the work
I read somewhere that I should make the file larger in width and machine to the edge
so I tried that it didn't work so I went back to the original file and just machined to the boundary
when I do the roughing pass it seems to go as expected
then I change tool re set the z axis and start the finishing pass
when it starts it starts in the wrong position
what am I doing wrong
also when saving the toolpath it says it will wrap around the y axis 361 deg is this correct I thought it would be 360 deg