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General Mach Discussion / Re: Problems with small cnc machine
« on: August 16, 2017, 06:43:06 PM »
RICH,

THANK  YOU FOR YOUR INFORMATION THIS MACHINE IS ALMOST 4 YEARS OLD AND HAVE NEVER HAD THIS PROBLEM BEFORE HENCE MY QUESTIONS.

DURING THE MOVEMENT OF AXIS VIA KEY BOARD CONTROLL AND OPERATION I AM GETTNG WHAT YOU REFER TO AS SKIPPING OR LIKE JAMMING ON THE GUIDE ARMS.

EVERYTHING IS CLEAN AND LUBED AS PER OUR NROMALL OPERATION. I WILL ATTEMP TO LOOK IN TO RETUNING OF STEP MOTORS AND GO FROM THERE.

THANKS AGAIN.
BRENDAN.

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General Mach Discussion / Problems with small cnc machine
« on: August 15, 2017, 08:32:07 PM »
Hi All,

We are fairly basic users of a CNC  machines in our factory and have had a very basic Chinese set up running for a few years now and had reasonable success.

Just yesterday we started up our set up to run through our normal processes and we have been experiencing some stuttering of the step motors in various directions.

We are using a chinese set up with has an inverter drive for the motor and a blue drive control box for the step motors and running mach 3 software, any information or help would be very much appreciated, I have obviously tried all the basic things of cleaning and reseating plugs etc.

Brendan.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: mach3 help
« on: January 26, 2016, 07:33:25 PM »
Russ,

ok I will give that a try and see what happens,
it just seem weird it started doing it all of a sudden from one day to the next.
 

I will advise if I have any luck.

Brendan

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General Mach Discussion / Re: mach3 help
« on: January 26, 2016, 06:31:59 PM »
Russ,

ok so are you telling me I cant mix cam bam and Mach 3 together, because I have been successfully doing this previously for 2.5 years, the g- code is produced by the cam bam software and all I have ever done is use that file in the Mach 3 software to operate the  router.

I have been playing with your suggestions this morning and I haven't really seem to get an further.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: mach3 help
« on: January 26, 2016, 05:18:44 PM »
ok,

so my question is I draw / design in cam bam but Mach 3 is what runs my router, so I am assuming the problem I'm encountering is in Mach 3 as all the codes and tool paths are produced in cam bam, but the problem I'm having is happening on jobs that the code was produced ages ago. sorry to go over things but I am still very vague on the complete operation of this stuff.

so is there a setting I have accidentally changed in mach3 

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General Mach Discussion / Re: mach3 help
« on: January 26, 2016, 04:52:37 PM »
thank you for your reply,

I checked that setting you mentioned and also changed it to see if that helped,

If I change that setting when I load the g code I can see the circles in the display screen if I change it back I cannot see circles or arcs however it still seems to do its own thing.


Brendan

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General Mach Discussion / mach3 help
« on: January 26, 2016, 04:19:45 PM »
hi all,

Hoping some one can help me, I'm using Mach 3 to run a very small simple cnc router machine, Monday last t week I turned it on and showed a new employee how it all works and successfully made the job I was trying to achieve with no problems at all.
the next day we turned it on to again make some more of our chosen job and all of a sudden Mach 3 seems to be doing its own thing and trying to cut large circles / arcs in my material, I use cam bam to make my drawings in and have checked all y settings are as normal, I also checked by using a job in which the g code was written 12months ago and it does the same thing

Any information someone may be to give me would be greatly appreciated.

thank you Brendan 

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General Mach Discussion / mach 3
« on: June 23, 2013, 08:03:11 PM »
Hi All,

i have a samll router which i use to make cut outs in my housings for control boxes, apparently there are wizards to do certain shapes for me as far as electrical cutouts, i cannot find them anywheere.
i do my designing in cam bam alternativley would like them to be usable in cam bam as well.


please help any info will be much appreciated.

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Mach SDK plugin questions and answers. / hello all/ questions
« on: June 23, 2013, 07:57:38 PM »
Hi All,

hope some one can help me out, i have a cnc mill which im using to make my mounting pannels for pcbs  and cut outs on housing boxes for the likes of db9/15/25 and rj45 etc,
i am looking for the stencils to drag out on to my drawings apparently i can use the mach 3 mill and use them in cam bam which iss what im using to design my layouts.

all info and help will be much apreciated.. 8)

brookgroup,

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