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LazyCam (Beta) / Re: Which LazyCAM is newer?

« on: February 08, 2015, 05:19:40 PM »

Okay thank you for all your help, Rich.

Funny that before getting the license for LazyCam Pro, I was creating all the tabbing in my CAD.  And the offsets, and the pocketing.  I figured I was supposed to let LazyCam do that now.

And it is funny I'm only the second guy interested in tabbing.  As I've been researching my issue (via Google), I've run across that same sentiment quite a bit.  Seems like people are either onion skinning or doing nothing.

I had run into that tutorial on tabbing before.  Funny thing is, if I adding tabbing to a square, LazyCam seems to work differently and actually does tabbing on it, not so much a circle.

So I guess I had to read the tutorial more and figure out a good way to do things.

Thanks for all the help.

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LazyCam (Beta) / Re: Which LazyCAM is newer?

« on: February 08, 2015, 10:12:09 AM »

I'm uploading another version of the same LCAM file, this time I've added the tabs to the circle and it appears from looking at things a bit more than the circle is a single, large tab.  I know I'm doing something wrong.

Edit to add:  Well, I tried not doing an offset, first, and I still can't get tabs on a circle.  It just treats the entire circle as one giant tab.

So do I need to do something to my drawing before importing it?

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LazyCam (Beta) / Re: Which LazyCAM is newer?

« on: February 08, 2015, 09:57:16 AM »

I tried creating a clean LCAM file and I'm pretty sure I'm doing something wrong because this time when I tried to add tabs to the part, the offseted component stopped displaying on the screen.

I'm including my LCAM file, hopefully you can tell me what I'm doing incorrectly.  I have a feeling it is the order of my operations.

They were:
(1) Load DXF file
(2) Autoclean (which I have set to relayer)
(3) Select my speaker's through hole and do Offset (inside) with .25" tool from my tool selection
(4) Go back to project and delete INSIDE2 layer (my original hole that was now offset)
(5) Set my layer rapid and cut depths (.5 and -.5, respectively)
(6) Select Chains tab
(8) Click on Tab button for Tab flyout
(9) Chose tab length of .375 and tabs quantity of 3, click okay

And now my hole vanishes from screen.

Any pointers would be helpful

I'm including my LCAM and also my DXF files.

I've struggled with tabs, I'll admit, and I'm pretty sure once I know a better order and what the heck I'm doing, I'll be much better at things.

Edit to add:  I went back and added a lead-in before step six and now my circle stays on the screen after I set the tabs, but I still don't think the tabs are working correctly.

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LazyCam (Beta) / Re: Which LazyCAM is newer?

« on: February 08, 2015, 12:43:46 AM »

Thank you Rich.

I did try totally uninstalling and reinstalling Mach3 + LazyCam, but no love on posting.  Not a huge deal, I can simply do a LOAD in Mach3.

I am having a peculiar problem.  When I create an offset of a circle, then add a lean-in, and then try to add tabs, the tabs don't seem to "take."  If my material is .5", and I add 2-3 .125" deep tabs, the code generate only cuts to .375. 

I can achieve the tabs on an offsetted rectangle, and I can add tabs to a circle not created by the offset feature.

Any ideas?

And yes, I have the manual, but I'm running into a problem or two I was unable to test with the demo version because I wasn't able to generate code and see it run.

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LazyCam (Beta) / Zero radius arc Block=N135 G3 X1.0719 Y2.5396?

« on: February 07, 2015, 03:23:18 PM »

I purchased the licensed LazyCam, and I'm trying to test it out for making a little speaker baffle with a driver recess.

I imported a DXF file, and everything looks pretty good in LazyCam.

But when I post the file and open it in Mach3, I'm getting the error above ("Zero radius arc Block=N135 G3 X1.0719 Y2.5396").

I've posted the LazyCam file here, could someone tell me what I'm doing wrong?

Also, when I try to post, LazyCam says "No Mach3 found running."  I've checked both my Mach3 and LazyCam license files, they're in place.  And in those apps, I've tried Help/About and it shows the apps are licensed to me.  I wonder if this is related to Mach3 not liking the file.  I suppose I should have posted something more simple, didn't think of that.

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LazyCam (Beta) / Which LazyCAM is newer?

« on: February 07, 2015, 11:05:43 AM »

Which LazyCAM is newer, the one that comes with the Mach3 download, or the separate LazyCAM beta download?

I installed both, with the LazyCAM beta download installed in its own folder.

When I check the Help/About screens, the one bundled with Mach3 says 3.00.2.

The separate download says it is 3.00.

And in Control Panel/Apps, the one Mach3 installed says it is 3.00.2, and the separate download says it is 3.01.

The actual EXE file on the one that comes w/ Mach3 is dated 1/3/2008, and is 5,476,352 bytes.

The actual EXE that comes with the separate download is dated 12/27/2007 and is 5,365,760 bytes.

So not sure which one I should concentrate on.

Any enlightenment would be welcome.

Thanks!

(I did buy a license, BTW, I'm committed to using this).

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LazyCam (Beta) / Re: Outside offset rounds the corners?

« on: December 14, 2014, 09:40:14 AM »

Thank you gentlemen.

I still haven't purchased a copy of Pro yet but I've been playing with the demo features and didn't understand what was going on.

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LazyCam (Beta) / Outside offset rounds the corners?

« on: December 14, 2014, 01:01:19 AM »

I did some googling but didn't really find an answer, but did I find the reason in the manual.

When I do an inside offset, I see sharp corners in the drawing and I know I'll get rounded corners because the big is round.

However, I do an outside offset, I actually see rounded corners in the drawing, and no way to get rid of them?  You can cut a sharp corner with a round router bit so I don't know why LazyCam would be making rounded corners.

Any ideas?

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VB and the development of wizards / Re: Hello world example?

« on: December 07, 2014, 09:56:21 AM »

Wow that is slick, I was able to produce a working Lazycam Z-Optimizer in just a few minutes.

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VB and the development of wizards / Re: Hello world example?

« on: December 06, 2014, 10:11:13 PM »

Thanks a ton Gerry.  I was able to give that a shot so now I'll work through the reference manuals and see what I can do.