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Show"N"Tell ( Your Machines) / Re: The Laser Project.

« on: November 06, 2018, 07:27:19 AM »

Although I am using mach4 a bit more often nowadays I just had to try the same fox image using Mach3.

Tweakie.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Laser.

« on: November 05, 2018, 07:07:55 AM »

Thanks to Andy at Warp9 who explained to me how to set the horizontal registration my results are improving 

To avoid duplication of postings my progress with this will be continued in the Laser Project thread here; http://www.machsupport.com/forum/index.php/topic,12444.msg261446.html#new

Tweakie.

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Show"N"Tell ( Your Machines) / Re: The Laser Project.

« on: November 05, 2018, 06:20:03 AM »

Thanks to Andy at Warp9 who explained to me how to fine tune the delays it was just a matter of trial and error before I was able to set the horizontal registration for my chosen feed-rate.
After 3 or so attempts it is now pretty close.

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach 3 will not open

« on: November 05, 2018, 01:42:31 AM »

This thread may help as it refers to the problem; http://www.machsupport.com/forum/index.php/topic,38269.0.html

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Display is upside down?

« on: November 05, 2018, 01:40:12 AM »

Hello newby here!! I have the same problem, can somebody be kind to tell me how reverse the direction of the Y axis. Thank you!!!

In Config / Ports & Pins / Motor Outputs  change the Dir Low Active state for your Y axis.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Laser.

« on: November 02, 2018, 09:15:31 AM »

Has anyone else tried raster laser engraving using the ESS ?

If so could you please post some pictures of your results.

Perhaps I am missing something but so far, this is the best I have been able to achieve using ESS build 227 and Mach4 build 3882.

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Creating a duplicate profile on Mach3 for metric

« on: November 02, 2018, 07:27:56 AM »

If you go into your Mach3 folder then open (run) Mach3.exe that should then enable you to create a new profile, shortcut, etc.

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Show"N"Tell ( Your Machines) / Re: The Laser Project.

« on: November 02, 2018, 07:13:02 AM »

I had been hoping that other Mach4 users with lasers and an ESS may have tried out the laser raster image reproduction but overall there does not seem to be much interest.

Considerable improvements have now been made with the latest ESS plugin Build 227 and Mach4 Build 3882 but the plugin is still lacking a GUI and key runtime features such as vertical step-over adjustment and image scaling.
 
Currently the vertical step-over seems to be set at one pixel, making the scan lines clearly visible and there is a definite issue with horizontal registration although this can possibly be improved by gating the laser PWM and adjusting the gate timings – something I have yet to try.

So far, this is the best I have been able to achieve – it can only get better 

Tweakie.

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Screen designer tips and tutorials / Re: newbie help with button

« on: November 01, 2018, 05:56:54 AM »

Following the suggestion by Rich, if you add a new screen button then on the button press the following button code will half the value shown in the X axis DRO half it and then write the new value back to the X axis DRO.

Tw=GetOEMDRO(800)
Call SetOEMDRO(800,Tw/2)

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: newbie

« on: November 01, 2018, 02:49:49 AM »

Can you give us as many details as you can of your controller, thc, PC, table, etc.