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General Mach Discussion / Mach turn & tool change

« on: January 20, 2009, 04:10:23 PM »

Hi,
 I think I started on this before but can not find my old post . I have a lathe running Mach turn with a turret tool changer ,I know that I have to write a macro to get the turret to work. I'll list some specs and see if anyone can help me get this to work right.

Here are the turret specs.

*It is driven by a gecko powered stepper, its has to turn the same way all the time to make the tool change.
* the turret has 6 positions and has 3 encoders that can be wired to into 3 inputs for mach3 to read. mach3 has to drive the stepper one direction untill it see's the right encoder code for the tool it's calling for and then stop and back up a "hair" to lock the tool.

 The biggest proplem I'm having with this is how to make mach3  turn a axis that it has no DRO for.Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks' Brian



  

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General Mach Discussion / Mach turn setup

« on: July 06, 2008, 09:19:18 AM »

Hi,
 I'm setting up a lathe with mach turn , everything is working good so far except that the code to turn a radius at the end of a piece of stock wants to cut out a whole ball. I believe it's the mach setup because even if I write to code with the lathe wizard It wants to do the same thing. I noticed that the lathe screen says radius mode but can not find how to change it to  diameter mode.

Thanks Brian

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General Mach Discussion / IMService servos

« on: October 13, 2007, 11:44:00 PM »

Hi,
 I recently bought IMServices servo system to run on my taig mill , everything is working fine . I was wondering if theres away to get the encoders in their servo's to feed right back to MACH3 ?

Thank's Brian