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General Mach Discussion / Re: Go To Zero behaviour

« on: September 07, 2019, 01:21:59 AM »

Check you Safe Z setting (Config / Safe Z).

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Attention: E stop and limit issues

« on: September 07, 2019, 01:18:57 AM »

Hi John,

You need to select a unique name for your .xml file to be able to post it here (forum quirk).

If you post your .xml I will try running it here but I suspect you may have either a bad switch on the Y or be suffering from an electrical noise problem (broken or poor contact earth wire, bad strip light, spindle motor brushes ?, etc, etc.).

Tweakie.

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G-Code, CAD, and CAM discussions / MOVED: Help! G41 doesn't work for multiple offsets!

« on: September 06, 2019, 01:02:31 AM »

This topic has been moved to General Mach Discussion.

https://www.machsupport.com/forum/index.php?topic=41733.0

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Newfangled Solutions Mach3 Wizards / Re: How do you make the Newfangled Addons in mach3 with what software

« on: September 05, 2019, 01:08:45 AM »

Within Mach3 select Wizards / Pick Wizard / Newfangled then follow the on-screen instructions. A separate license is needed to use the generated Gcode.

Tweakie.

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Tangent Corner / Re: It's a Dog thing.

« on: September 05, 2019, 12:56:52 AM »

Good one Russ 

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Tangent Corner / Re: It's a Dog thing.

« on: September 04, 2019, 07:00:47 AM »

All that digging and I still didn't get the mouse !

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General Mach Discussion / Re: mach3 with 5 axis machining problem

« on: September 04, 2019, 06:00:22 AM »

You will ned to experiment to find the best settings but the solution is to reduce the Velocity setting and increase the Acceleration setting in Motor Tuning for each of the X and Y axes saving the changes.

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: mach3 with 5 axis machining problem

« on: September 04, 2019, 01:25:52 AM »

It looks like it could be a Constant Velocity problem.
Try operating in Exact Stop mode (add G61 to the start of your Gcode) - does the problem go away ?

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Controlling a Fiber Laser engraver with Mach ?

« on: September 03, 2019, 02:18:27 AM »

Those optical systems look good.

Getting a good quality lens is important and this can be an issue because, visually, the good and the bad all look alike. It is only when they are used that the difference is revealed.
For my C02 lasers I have always purchased my optics from II-VI Infrared and I have just started using a GaAs meniscus which is absolutely brilliant. I don’t know if II-VI make anything for the MOPA wavelength, you could perhaps check.

One thing to bear in mind is that any quality lens system is not going to be cheap so I think you should also consider a galvo system and F-Theta lens system. This would effectively make a new machine rather than be an addition to an existing machine but it is perhaps something to think about (if the Minister of Finance will allow it).

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Controlling a Fiber Laser engraver with Mach ?

« on: September 02, 2019, 10:16:08 AM »

Just reading about that MOPA is starting to make me broody 

Tweakie.