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General Mach Discussion / Re: Drag knife
« on: February 10, 2014, 05:36:41 PM »
Thank you John.
I'm now dragging my knife :)

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Drag knife
« on: February 07, 2014, 07:46:03 PM »
Anyone? little help here? please?
Appreciate it.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Drag knife
« on: February 03, 2014, 02:08:21 PM »
The code starts it.
A video by Donek, the company I bought the knife from, says to edit the code below then select the edited file as my post processor.
The example they used was a shopbot file where it read in the code "turning router on" then code following it.
Not knowing anything about g-code yet, without that "turn on / off...." text I'm clueless.

THANKS!


+================================================
+                                                
+ Mach2/3 - Vectric machine output configuration file  
+                                                
+================================================
+                                                
+ History                                        
+                                                
+ Who      When       What                        
+ ======== ========== ===========================
+ Tony     15/11/2005 Written
+ Tony     06/01/2006 Added ATC option    
+ Tony     14/05/2006 Fixed G20 inch in header    
+ Tony     24/07/2006 Added G2 & G3 Arc support + removed (( ))      
+ Tony     18/06/2007 Replaced the Tool comment      
+ Mark     14/08/2008 Added G1 to Feed moves,
+                     Removed 2nd G20 in header.
+ Mark     28/08/2009 Added G91.1 to force use of incremental arcs
+                     Added Substitution, File & Toolpath Notes.
+ Mark     30/11/2009 Added TOOLPATHS_OUTPUT.
+ Brian    15/12/2009 Remove M05 from NEW_SEGMENT
+================================================

POST_NAME = "Mach2/3 Arcs (inch) (*.txt)"

FILE_EXTENSION = "txt"

UNITS = "inches"

DIRECT_OUTPUT = "Mach|Mach4.Document"

SUBSTITUTE = "({)}"

+------------------------------------------------
+    Line terminating characters                
+------------------------------------------------

LINE_ENDING = "[13][10]"

+------------------------------------------------
+    Block numbering                            
+------------------------------------------------

LINE_NUMBER_START     = 0
LINE_NUMBER_INCREMENT = 10
LINE_NUMBER_MAXIMUM = 999999

+================================================
+                                                
+    Formating for variables                    
+                                                
+================================================

VAR LINE_NUMBER = [N|A|N|1.0]
VAR SPINDLE_SPEED = [S|A|S|1.0]
VAR FEED_RATE = [F|C|F|1.1]
VAR X_POSITION = [X|C|X|1.4]
VAR Y_POSITION = [Y|C|Y|1.4]
VAR Z_POSITION = [Z|C|Z|1.4]
VAR ARC_CENTRE_I_INC_POSITION = [I|A|I|1.4]
VAR ARC_CENTRE_J_INC_POSITION = [J|A|J|1.4]
VAR X_HOME_POSITION = [XH|A|X|1.4]
VAR Y_HOME_POSITION = [YH|A|Y|1.4]
VAR Z_HOME_POSITION = [ZH|A|Z|1.4]
VAR SAFE_Z_HEIGHT = [SAFEZ|A|Z|1.4]
+================================================
+                                                
+    Block definitions for toolpath output      
+                                                
+================================================

+---------------------------------------------------
+  Commands output at the start of the file
+---------------------------------------------------

begin HEADER

"( [TP_FILENAME] )"
"( File created: [DATE] - [TIME])"
"( for Mach2/3 from Vectric )"
"( Material Size)"
"( X= [XLENGTH], Y= [YLENGTH], Z= [ZLENGTH])"
"([FILE_NOTES])"
"(Toolpaths used in this file:)"
"([TOOLPATHS_OUTPUT])"
"(Tools used in this file: )"
"([TOOLS_USED])"
"[N]G00G20G17G90G40G49G80"
"[N]G70G91.1"
"[N]T[T]M06"
"[N] ([TOOLNAME])"
"[N]G00G43[ZH]H[T]"
"[N]M03"
"[N](Toolpath:- [TOOLPATH_NAME])"
"[N]([TOOLPATH_NOTES])"
"[N]G94"
"[N][XH][YH][F]"

+---------------------------------------------------
+  Commands output for rapid moves
+---------------------------------------------------



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General Mach Discussion / Drag knife
« on: February 02, 2014, 03:38:23 PM »
Simple question from a complete newbie
How do I stop the spindle from spinning for a drag knife?

THANKS!

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Hello all,
I'm John Crosetti & I work for a party rental company. We do everything from small back yard parties to nation wide events. I draw the cad drawings for events & I'm the graphics guy here.... now I guess I'm going to be the cnc guy & I can see I've have a lot to learn.
So about  2 months ago my boss bought a cnc router after seeing what it could do.
I'm completely new to the cnc world, but from what see in my short time here, I think I'm going to love this world!

Cheers!

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