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General Mach Discussion / Re: text engraving help
« on: March 22, 2012, 06:17:55 PM »
Thank you both VERY much.  Yep, Enter key was the trick.  Works like a charm now.  Thanks agan, James

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General Mach Discussion / text engraving help
« on: March 22, 2012, 04:42:09 PM »
Hi all,

I admit I don't know what I'm doing but very willing to learn.  I'm simply trying to engrave some text in some aluminum.  Here is what I'm doing:

using mach3 wizard - Text Engraving v4
I have written the g code for what I want engraved and clicked run and it runs fine but I have no z axis control/movement.
On the text engraving page it will not allow me to enter any values for the rapid height, zero, or depth of the z axis.  (actually it won't let me enter ANY values for anything.  Just asks for feed rate, height and spacing after I click write) When I change the value to what I want it goes back to zero when I click something else.

Like I said, I've moved my cutter to the starting point (bottom left of workpiece).  Paper off of work piece and zeroed everything out.  Click run and it traces good, just no z axis movement because I can't enter any values.

Any help on what I'm doing wrong?  Thanks for your time, James

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