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General Mach Discussion / Re: My home bulid machine

« on: March 19, 2019, 03:01:15 AM »

Hi  Lumber60,

I have resized your picture as per Craig's recommendations.
It may help if you read this thread;   https://www.machsupport.com/forum/index.php?topic=24585.0

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G-Code, CAD, and CAM discussions / Re: Number of problems with Syil X4 & Mach3 & Mastercam. Help!

« on: March 19, 2019, 02:48:52 AM »

Hi Bryan,

Welcome to the forum.

I'd like to make sure that I at least have the axes moving in the proper direction.
My assumption is that the controlled point (the end of the tool) should move in the conventional directions (or the table in the opposite direction)
Thus, on the X4, I would consider a positive X move if the table moved to the left (or bit moved to right of part).
I would consider a positive Y move if the table moved to the front (or rear of the part).
A positive Z move would be upwards, away from the table.
Is all this correct, or am I mixing up my definitions?

I can confirm that this is correct.

Looking at the chart on page 4-2 of the install/config manual of the parallel port pins I don't see how they match the "pins" shown on the diagnostic screen. The diagram has 13 pins on the upper row, and 12 pins on the lower.
The diagnostic screen has 12 pins upper and lower. ??!!

Please don't take too much notice of the Port 1 Pins Current State (Diagnostics Screen) - for some reason they do not always work as intended.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: pics

« on: March 18, 2019, 05:18:14 AM »

This thread refers;  https://www.machsupport.com/forum/index.php?topic=24585.0

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Mach SDK plugin questions and answers. / Re: Manual for SDK

« on: March 16, 2019, 04:33:23 AM »

Towards bottom of this page;  https://www.machsupport.com/downloads-updates/main-programs/

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Show"N"Tell ( Your Machines) / Re: Made a drag knife spending just AUD$4

« on: March 15, 2019, 09:10:07 AM »

Excellent 

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Crashing !

« on: March 14, 2019, 10:45:31 AM »

Now to find some CAD program that will draw gears among other things that is simple to use

Take a look at Gearotic Motion;  http://www.gearotic.com/

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One on one phone support. / Re: License key emailed to me

« on: March 14, 2019, 02:23:49 AM »

Hi Plasron,

Sorry to hear that you are having problems.

Please contact NFS directly via their ticket system and all will be explained.  http://support.machsupport.com/

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: How to slave an axis with different steps per

« on: March 13, 2019, 11:21:07 AM »

Mach3 will always send the same Steps per Unit to each axis in the slaved pair.

Would it be possible for you to change the microsteps setting for your C axis driver to make them 2.25 greater than the microsteps for your Y axis driver ?
I think it is doubtful, but if that could be done then the Steps per Unit could be adjusted to create the correct scale.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Respect

« on: March 13, 2019, 10:16:48 AM »

Hi Bill,

I think everybody will agree with me - Thank you for your kind words.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach3 on Win7 32 bit BUT 64 bit processor

« on: March 13, 2019, 06:11:14 AM »

All is well that ends well