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LazyCam (Beta) / Re: Possible Lazy Cam Bug

« on: March 25, 2008, 12:06:32 AM »

Bill
I see what  you mean. Big difference in size. And the"e"'s are there. I will find cambam and try it. Would anyone know what limitations Lcam has? I have  3.00.2 and I have a license for mach3. The one thing I noticed different  in the one that Chip fixed for me to try,  is that the Lcam one i did never had an entity # over 49

Ben:
I transformed it 500% and it made no diffrence. I guess transforming is the same as exploding the drawing.

thanks for your time and help.
mike

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LazyCam (Beta) / Re: Possible Lazy Cam Bug

« on: March 24, 2008, 03:47:46 PM »

Chip:

I downloaded a viewer, and I clearly see the dang compleate "e" with it. If i reopen the  dfx file with corel it's there also.

 If I place just one really big e in the dfx file,the only program that I have that wont see the complete "e" is Lazy Cam !   I dont understand how that can be.   It's crazy.  I wonder if the font has some type of code that cam programs dont like.

Thanks for the input
Mike

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LazyCam (Beta) / Re: Possible Lazy Cam Bug

« on: March 24, 2008, 09:41:56 AM »

Chip:

Thanks again for your help. At least I know it's not Lazy cam. What I don't understand ( not that I know much) is how it can drop that part of the "e" when I export the file but when I open the file with corel its there. Is there some other program I can view DFX files with ? Have you ever seen a program drop lines like this ?

Thanks

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LazyCam (Beta) / Possible Lazy Cam Bug

« on: March 21, 2008, 05:23:36 PM »

I am new to CNC, Mach3 and LCAM. With lots of help from this forum I have things going. I am cutting signs to learn how everthing works. I laid out a sign in Coreldraw X4. exported it in a DFX file ( autocad 14 format, Corel skips autocad 12 for some reason). Loaded it into Lcam. The wording in the sign is " Robert Cowert" but in L-Cam  both "e" are missing the "-" so it looks closer to " Robcrt Cowcrt". They are not  "C"  the tails are almost touching so they are "e" without the horizontal bars.  What am I doing wrong? If you open the DFX file with Corel, everthing is fine.  Is this a bug in L-Cam or am i doing somthing wrong. I am attching both the DFX and Lcam files. Maybe one of you old hands can enlighten me.

Thanks in  advance.
Mike

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LazyCam (Beta) / Re: Lazycam project X-Y size diffrent from DFX file X_Ysize

« on: March 14, 2008, 01:29:58 AM »

 Bill
I will give it a try. What  Autocad Version should I export it as? I have been defaulting it as Autocad 2007 Does one work better than the other with Lcam? I have down to Autocad R2.5

Mike

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LazyCam (Beta) / Re: Lazycam project X-Y size diffrent from DFX file X_Ysize

« on: March 14, 2008, 12:35:09 AM »

Bill & Chip

Yes The DFX took forever to load. I had nothing to reference it by so I had no idea how long a file takes to load. I placed a border around it and it looks like it will work just fine. If I delete the border by deleting the chain it resides in, then Lcam scales the project back down. I tried to move just this chain into its own layer so I could set the feed rate fast and the cutting depth to 0 so it could get no-where faster.  Lcam crashed. IT did not like moving this chain  to it's own layer for some reason. Do you know if I can do that?

Is there a better way to do sign type projects. Is there better and easy-er software to use other than Coreldraw to lay out stuff like this?  i am just horsing around trying to educate myself.  I figure if I cant make a sign there is no  way I can make anything else! Also the wife will be happier if she gets somthing out of the deal.


Thanks for all your help and more importantly your time.

Mike

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LazyCam (Beta) / Re: Lazycam project X-Y size diffrent from DFX file X_Ysize

« on: March 13, 2008, 05:23:31 PM »

 Thanks for the replys folks.

Chip, I found that option and tried it, same thing happens. Attched is the DFX file out of Coreldraw and the Lazycam file. I am sure one f you guys can point me in the right direction. These are the versions of software I am using: Mach3 R3.036, Lazycam R3.00.2 AND CorelDraw X4 V14.0.0.567

Thanks for the help and input !
mike

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LazyCam (Beta) / Lazycam project X-Y size diffrent from DFX file X_Ysize

« on: March 13, 2008, 11:32:05 AM »

I am VERY new to CNC mills, Mach3 R3.036,Lazycam R3.00.2 AND CorelDraw X4. I use each of these. I hope someone can direct me on what I am not doing quite right.
I have everthing going. I am using sign projects in wood  to learn with. Here is my problem.

 I lay out a  project  sized as X= 5.5" Y=10.0" with CorelDraw X4. The lettering and image to cut is centerd in this XY area so that i have an equal distance from all edges.  I save the progect as a DFX  file. I open it into lazycam and optimise the file, get the starting point set on X=0 Y=0. If I check the size it is imported asX=5.069" and Y=8.728". It seems that for whatever reason Lazycam only imported the  actual cutting image X Ymaximum refrenced to X=0 Y=0. it seems to have disregarded the actual laid out size of the overall project. If you cut the project with Mach 3 and the engraver tip refrenced to X=0 and Y=0, the project is cut left and bottom. It's not centered as I laid it out in Coreldraw.  Can one of you old hands  lead me into the right direction?

Thanks in advance.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach 3 limit switch overide

« on: March 07, 2008, 09:44:00 PM »

Thanks guys. I got things working, with your help

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach 3 limit switch overide

« on: March 07, 2008, 03:30:31 PM »

Thank you for your help !   I had found  the button, but did not realize it because you cant jog from that page! Thanks! I thought it just did not work.
When running the porgram i had gotten hung up on a limit switch and could not get off it without deacivating the limit switch. My setup is

x++ pin 10
x-  pin 11
x home pin 11

y++ pin 12
y- pin 13
y home pin 13

Z++  pin 15
Z-   none
Z Home pin 15

One other issue I am having is: I have soft limits .3" before the limit / home switchs. trying to stop the occasional false triger.  I had to turn off soft limits to get the thing to go to the limit/home switch . I thought  the software ignored  soft limits when it was told to refrence all home? What am I doing wrong?

On the" Index Debounce "what does it do, what should it be set at ?

I did watch the videos, the screen layouts were diffrent on the setting page- I  must have missed the limit overide button. Lots of stuff to learn. When you are 100% green you sure can miss a lot, even when you are looking at it.

Thanks for all your help,