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G-Code, CAD, and CAM discussions / how do I do this?
« on: June 17, 2010, 12:11:27 AM »
I'm a relative newbie and need some advice on how to program a machine.  I want to have a stepper motor power a feed roller.  Why a stepper?  High torque, very good speed control.  Basically running continuously would be fine.  is there a way to do this?  how about looping a command like g1 x5 so that it would keep feeding 5 inches of material (assuming proper calibration) into a cutter.  thanks for any input offered.  just want to get on with the project and get the machine built.
scott

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General Mach Discussion / mach 3 hanging
« on: August 09, 2009, 11:26:33 AM »
Hi there all:
I've got a freshly installed version of W2000sp4 on a laptop P3 655mhz 512M mem set up for 'standard pc'.  It's a little slow, I know.  There are no other installed programs on this box, other than the latest version of mach3, so far unlicensed.  I'm running some short test programs on mach3turn.  

Over the span of a 20 minute operation, Mach3 will hang sometimes, spending a minute frozen, and then it will resume the operation, without the apparent loss of steps, afaik.  

I had been getting the driver watchdog triggered error and have disabled it in general config.  Drivertest.exe is stable/excellent.

plugin's have been disabled I think, there were 6 installed, three were enabled, and I unchecked them.  

Also, the elapsed time clock stops at random places but the program continues to run.

I'm a newbie, for sure, and would appreciate any help.

Scott
www.heganglassworks.com

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LazyTurn / Re: LazyTurn
« on: June 25, 2009, 11:22:54 AM »
everything works great, I love it.  Have read the manual through and love it.  Would recommend it to anybody.

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LazyTurn / Re: LazyTurn
« on: June 24, 2009, 07:46:40 PM »
just wanted to say that I finally got this entire process finished on a fresh w2000 box and it works great.  I think you have a great thing going here and I'm looking forward to the version with a finish pass feature.  For now I'll hand code it - it's a good exercise anyway.  Thanks for the good work.
On my laptop where I was practicing installation I have an option in the file menu for ENTIB, which strangely starts rhapsody for my blackberry.  Not sure where that comes from but I think it's funny.  Still says that lazycam is not installed, though sheetcam starts up just fine.
Eating up all the profits in R&D.

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LazyTurn / Re: LazyTurn
« on: May 17, 2009, 10:06:45 PM »
thank you for checking on the ftp - I have the update file now which I will save for later once I get some bugs worked out.
I uninstalled mach 3 and then reinstalled it making sure to check the box for lazycam at the beginning of the install process.  When I click on lazycam from the file drop down menu, I get a alert stating "option package missing".  Any suggestions?

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LazyTurn / Re: LazyTurn
« on: May 17, 2009, 01:09:52 PM »
noob here.
I'm trying to install lazyturn and lazy cam. 
have successfully downloaded and installed mach3 (so cool)
have downloaded and successfully installed dotnetfx from microsoft. 
have downloaded lazyturn.zip and uncompressed to new folder. 
Cant download lazycam 3.0.2 update because link seems to be broken - o/s asking if the file has been moved or renamed. 
the lazycaminstall.exe that is in my mach3 folder will not start giving the error message of 'windows cannot access the specified device, path or file' and suggests that I may not have the right permissions (wierd}
Cant install the double clicking on lazyturn icon gives error message of missing dll, which I guessed is in lazycam, which I can't seem to get installed. 
I'm stuck.  Can anyone point me in the right direction? 
toshiba laptop, windows xpsp2 (I think) runs fine.

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