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General Mach Discussion / Re: I Cut Profile Cutting.

« on: August 02, 2011, 06:22:07 PM »

Rich,

The poor man's version can be simple. It is easy for the designer to produce a vector file the matches the image. He then sends the image to the printer and the vector file to the cutter or CNC router. The trick is aligning the 2. In the Summa vinyl cutters they use targets that are printed with the image. These targets can be printed at a position precisely located from zero so that a camera and software can deduce the location of the vector cut path around the image, from the location of the targets . I am not a programer and I don't know how to make camera identify a target, but it seems simple.

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General Mach Discussion / I Cut Profile Cutting.

« on: August 02, 2011, 11:45:33 AM »

In the sign portion of CNC Routing profile cutting of images printed on rigid substrates has grown from a convenience to a necessity. The first and some say the best system is called I Cut. I know some of you have heard of it. I am posting today, because it has been several years since I first checked to see if anyone was developing the Icut type of profile cutting for  MACH software. Does anyone know of any such development?

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: New people welcome !! Come in here and introduce your self!

« on: July 16, 2009, 05:51:09 PM »

New guy in town.

My name is Terry Whalen. We use Mach3 for the software to control our CNC router which we use to manufacture signs in Las Vegas. I am logging on to start my membership and I have a couple of problems I want to ask about. I don't know if this is the right place, but here goes.

1. I have version 1 of Mach 3 and think i need to upgrade to the latest version 3. Can I do an upgrade without losing all my setup parameters, like pin assignments, tuning, size ca labration and etc?

2. We are having a problem where the control will stop randomly in the g-code program. Does not seem to be in the same spot in any given job, and the code looks perfectly normal. Has anyone seen this and do you have any idea what I should look for?

3. Very frequently when we load a G-code file the graphic display in Mach 3 where you see the picture of what you are cutting is not correct. It may show the file in the wrong location or may only show a portion of the file. Also, I have noticed that when I have the stopping problem above, the display which shows each line of g-code, will show the same line of code multiple times. I get the felling that this display problem is related to the stopping problem above item 2, but not sure. Once again has anyone seen this and do you have any advice.

Thanks,

Terry