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Screen designer tips and tutorials / Home position on screen

« on: August 05, 2012, 11:13:13 AM »

Hi Lads

As is the home position on the Mach3 tool path screen is bottom left , is it possible to change it to top right ? 


Thanks Rob

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General Mach Discussion / Vexta 5 phase stepper motor

« on: August 21, 2011, 10:14:25 AM »

Hi Lads

I am thinking about converting my 626 mill to cnc ,,,,, i have two un-used 5 phase steppers (PK596BW1-H100) and drivers (UDK5114NW2)  ,,, the motors have 100:1 harmonic drives and going off what info i can fined on them looks like they have a max shaft  rpm out put of 35 RPMS

newer model but close ,, step angle on the ones i have is 0.0072 deg
http://catalog.orientalmotor.com/item/stepping-motors--1068/pk-series-5-phase-stepping-motors/pk596be1-h100?&plpver=11&origin=advsrch&by=prod&filter=0&categid=1068&prodid=3001062

Do you think they would be suitable to use for the X,Y axis of the mill with 10 or 16 mm pitch ball screws ?


Thanks Rob

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General Mach Discussion / Parallel card Question

« on: August 14, 2011, 09:28:11 AM »

Hi Lads

I have a Foxcom A74ML mother board ,it dose not have a parallel port  , if i fitted this PCI card  http://www.lindy.co.uk/1-port-parallel-card-pci-32-bit-spp-bpp-ecp-epp/51238.html  ,, would it run Mach3 ?


Cheers Rob

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General Mach Discussion / circle centre V1 by German Bravo help

« on: November 04, 2008, 12:47:57 PM »

hi could some one let no how to use this wizard ,Touch point A,B,C,? i under stand i have to touch the edge of my part with edge finder but were is A B C , Then what?
Thanks Rob

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G-Code, CAD, and CAM discussions / Lcam Cut Start

« on: January 11, 2008, 06:55:58 PM »

Hi Can any body help , if i set the cut start in Lcam to say -2mm for example it goes positive, what i am trying to do is  do a pocket to a depth of say -2mm then do a smaller pocket inside the first
with a start depth of -2mm cut to -4mm, i can do it if the layer  cut start are both at 0 but there is a lot of fresh air machining on the second pocket until it reaches -2 mm, so how do i get the second pocket to start at -2mm.
Rob

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G-Code, CAD, and CAM discussions / Joining G code HELP!

« on: January 06, 2008, 02:19:17 PM »

HI is it possible to join together two or more G code's if so can anybody help . i use Lcam to produce my code.
thanks Rob.

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Show"N"Tell ( What you have made with your CNC machine.) / Vice Stop

« on: December 28, 2007, 04:42:29 PM »

This is something i made to fit my small tool makers vice for repeatable work positioning . The stop can be removed and refitted if its in the way
for maching with no loss of position.
Rob.

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Show"N"Tell ( What you have made with your CNC machine.) / Steam Engine Name Plates

« on: November 22, 2007, 05:03:40 PM »

Hi. here is a photo of my fist project using mach3 cnc a name plate and the steam chest valve cover for a small horizontal engine.

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General Mach Discussion / where are the mach 3 videos

« on: September 10, 2007, 01:39:39 PM »

can anyone help when i follow the link all i get is the adobe flash page i have latest player and java
thanks Rob