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Mach4 Plugins / MOVED: hybrid servo motor, Pockeys57cnc and mach4

« on: February 15, 2019, 08:08:19 AM »

This topic has been moved to Mach4 General Discussion.

https://www.machsupport.com/forum/index.php?topic=39468.0

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General Mach Discussion / Re: New people welcome !! Come in here and introduce your self!

« on: February 15, 2019, 05:52:44 AM »

My name is Jonathan, from South Africa.

I am completely novice in the CNC hobby. In actual fact I switch on my first CNC motion controller last night. Trying to jog (move) my hybrid motor and must be honest I am finding it so hard to setup my pokeys57cnc board so that I just can move the motor?

Any help on this?

Kind Regards
Jonathan

Hi Jonathan,

Welcome.

I may be wrong but it is my understanding that NFS have a dedicated support team at their help desk. Try using the free email support ticket system and see if they can help you set up your 57CNC.  https://www.machsupport.com/support/

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Using a PWM controlled laser, Mach 4 vs Mach3

« on: February 15, 2019, 01:46:04 AM »

Hi Guys,

The pictures posted were all produced using a CO2 laser and the Impact/Laser Engraving plugin for Mach3 using just the LPT Parallel Port. This plugin and my introduction to it can be downloaded from here; http://tweakie.byethost10.com/Engraving.zip
The plugin is not particularly easy to use as getting all the settings just right can be a little tricky but it can be done. The original images that I used for testing were not modified but they were chosen for good contrast and no background.

As mentioned, Mach4 requires a motion controller and I use the ESS. Warp9 have now included Vector and Raster engraving routines within their plugin and further details are available here;
https://www.warp9td.com/index.php/faq/faq-mach4#LaserSetup

Another Mach4 motion controller is the 57CNC from Polabs and they have included some special routines to allow laser images to be reproduced with the free software Auggie. Further details can be found here; https://www.machsupport.com/forum/index.php?topic=12444.msg248511#msg248511

Hope this helps.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Using a PWM controlled laser, Mach 4 vs Mach3

« on: February 14, 2019, 10:45:59 AM »

I think that I have had reasonable success at engraving grayscale images with Mach3 over the years and a couple of pictures are attached.

With Mach4 it is still early days with raster engraving (mainly because it is the job of the motion controller to set the variable PWM signal required) but it is progressing.

Tweakie.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Using a PWM controlled laser, Mach 4 vs Mach3

« on: February 14, 2019, 05:15:10 AM »

One of the issues I've read about with Mach 3 is that there were delays in processing the laser on/off and intensity levels such that direct control of laser by Mach3 wasn't really great. 

 That may have been the case when the Mach3 M11/M10 command set was not working correctly but that problem was fixed when build R3.043.056 was released some 6 years ago. Mach3 has been working just fine for me ever since.

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Post Processors / Re: Vectric post processor for Mach 4 laser operation.

« on: February 14, 2019, 01:30:25 AM »

For photographic images and Mach4 you would need a little more than is currently available from the standard Vectric software.
Warp9 have now included raster image reproduction (and also vector) routines within their latest Smooth Stepper software for Mach4;  https://www.machsupport.com/forum/index.php?topic=12444.msg258539#msg258539

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Show"N"Tell ( What you have made with your CNC machine.) / Re: another Jukebox.

« on: February 12, 2019, 06:50:51 AM »

Of all the many things I have been able to make using Mach3 and CNC machines this all electronic Jukebox has to take first prize.
It has been in use almost every day since it’s construction and it now has Bluetooth connectivity to my domestic Hi-Fi and other devices with just sufficient range to reach my Marshall amp on the patio for the long awaiting Summer nights, Bar-B-Q and Beer. 

Tweakie.

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Mach SDK plugin questions and answers. / MOVED: Connect to Mach4 using VS 2012 C++

« on: February 12, 2019, 01:58:06 AM »

This topic has been moved to Mach4 General Discussion.

https://www.machsupport.com/forum/index.php?topic=39451.0

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German / Re: Eine Tastplatte nutzen in Mach3 wie bei Estlcam ?

« on: February 11, 2019, 05:20:00 AM »

I don't know if this would be of interest because I was using a WebCam rather than a Touch Probe but it does demonstrate the Local System Rotate function and the formulae used to calculate the angle.

Part way down page;  http://www.tweakie.byethost10.com/17_files/Page410.htm

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Share Your GCode / Re: raster pictures??????

« on: February 11, 2019, 02:22:40 AM »

The software Halftoner written by Jason Dorie can reproduce pictures by drilling Dots and also some other options. This thread refers; https://www.machsupport.com/forum/index.php?topic=20501.msg142386#msg142386

Also check out DotG   
http://dotg.weebly.com/download.html