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General Mach Discussion / Re: a axis as a linear axis

« on: May 20, 2010, 05:55:35 AM »

Thanks Greg..I'll give that a whirl

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General Mach Discussion / a axis as a linear axis

« on: May 20, 2010, 04:35:14 AM »

Hi All
I am trying to do some engraving on a circumference for a machine dial. I set my A axis as a linear axis in general set up and calibrated it so 144 mm linear movement gives 1 rotation on my rotary table (800 steps per mm x 72 assuming a 2mm ptch leadscrew). The G0 commands work perfectly but as soon as I do an MDI G1 command it seems to revert to angular motion and feed rates. I thought I might be able to do this without axis swapping as my Y motor is hard wired to the stepper driver and it seemed an elegant solution. I have also tried slaving the A axis to the Y axis and disabling the Y axis but the rotary table motor just jitters and screams...not good. any suggestions . I know I should work in degrees for rotary axes but going through my code and converting all Y moves to A angular moves seems really tedious. I have tried CNC wrapper but  on conversion the feed rates in A axis are way to slow so you have to move the  A axis move to a seperate line and and add a seperate feed rate...clunky at best!

any help appreciated

Iain

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General Mach Discussion / Re: No mCodes in MDI mode?

« on: April 19, 2010, 03:46:24 PM »

Thanks Hood.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: No mCodes in MDI mode?

« on: April 19, 2010, 12:00:45 PM »

How bizzarre..i did copy the XML file from my old version of Mach 3 (2.63) . This may be the cause as the motor tuning etc was all wrong and it didnt copy across properly

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General Mach Discussion / Re: No mCodes in MDI mode?

« on: April 19, 2010, 08:25:09 AM »

Oh.. I was using the default screen set

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General Mach Discussion / Re: No mCodes in MDI mode?

« on: April 19, 2010, 06:27:42 AM »

Yeh a little bizzare to assign a hotkey as default that you are going to use a lot elswhere.
Still a great program otherwise

Iain

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General Mach Discussion / Re: No mCodes in MDI mode?

« on: April 18, 2010, 04:45:18 AM »

Hi All
I found out the problem and that was the M key on the keyboard was set to MDI select. Hope this helps anyone else who runs into this

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General Mach Discussion / No mCodes in MDI mode?

« on: April 17, 2010, 10:59:50 AM »

Hi All
Ive been using mach 2.63 for a while and updated to latest version last night. For some reason I cant seem to type in M3 and M5 in MDI mode as i used to. The spindle is working and I can start it using the F5 key. is this a new safety feature or am I missing something in the setup?

thanks in advance

Iain

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LazyCam (Beta) / Re: DXF loads incorrectly from turbocad

« on: March 20, 2006, 07:21:04 AM »

cheers
Iain

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LazyCam (Beta) / Re: DXF loads incorrectly from turbocad

« on: March 20, 2006, 06:41:44 AM »

Was it a bug and can I download the fix?

Thanks

iain