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Feature Requests / Re: Icons on the tool table

« on: April 14, 2018, 01:34:54 AM »

Hi Cad cam man,

The development of Mach3 has ceased in favour of Mach4 so no future changes will be made to the Mach3 tooltable icon display.

If you felt really adventurous you could always create your own icons and using a suitable resource editor replace the existing bitmap 371 with one of your own.   

Tweakie.

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

« on: April 13, 2018, 10:48:57 AM »

As far as I know it is what it is and cannot easily be changed.

Tweakie.

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

« on: April 13, 2018, 10:26:43 AM »

Tweakie I have seen u on just about every page I click on here, thanks for the link and by the way do you know why it says holding under my user name??

Just the way the forum works - it has changed to Active Member now. 

Tweakie.

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G-Code, CAD, and CAM discussions / MOVED: Z-axis keeps going up

« on: April 13, 2018, 02:04:33 AM »

This topic has been moved to General Mach Discussion.

http://www.machsupport.com/forum/index.php?topic=37019.0

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

« on: April 13, 2018, 01:49:50 AM »

Hi Cad cam man,

Welcome.

This information is basically the same as in the Mach3 manual but it is from a different perspective and may be helpful to you:    http://www.machsupport.com/forum/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=26252.0;attach=36629

Tweakie.

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G-Code, CAD, and CAM discussions / Re: help with mach 3 not running at g coded feedrate

« on: April 12, 2018, 01:53:03 AM »

Hi Farv,

Download and run one of the demo Gcode files from the .zip file here;
http://www.machsupport.com/forum/index.php/topic,18345.0.html

Some of these files had been prepared in Inch units and some in Millimeter units. If you use Notepad to view any of the files you should see that they contain the G20 or G21 command (as appropriate) in order to scale the toolpath and the work accordingly.

When you run the axis calibration facility - if you enter 24.5 then the axis should move 24.5 and the appropriate DRO should show 24.5000


Hope this helps,

Tweakie.

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G-Code, CAD, and CAM discussions / MOVED: Mach3 Turn post processor for Mastercam

« on: April 11, 2018, 06:06:17 AM »

This topic has been moved to Promote and discuss your product.

http://www.machsupport.com/forum/index.php?topic=34420.0

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach3 suddenly fails to load

« on: April 10, 2018, 06:32:55 AM »

Hi Dave, sorry it wasn't the answer you wanted to hear.

(Technology is continuously changing so fast, making last year's stuff (which is perhaps considered old tech.) so cheap to buy. All my original HD's have now been replaced with SSD's and I make regular (USB connected) SSD clone backups of the whole drive. I have not had a problem (so-far) but when one comes it probably takes less than a minute to swap the SSD for the backup).

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach3 suddenly fails to load

« on: April 10, 2018, 03:45:39 AM »

I think you were lucky to get away with it for so long.
It has been said so many times in the past that the PC running Mach3 should be a dedicated machine controller and nothing else. If necessary it could be connected to a network but certainly never connected to the internet and downloading OS updates etc.

Get yourself a cheap, dedicated, PC with fresh install to run Mach3 and use your best PC for all the other stuff. 

Tweakie.

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

« on: April 07, 2018, 05:13:12 AM »

Excellent work Bill.

Tweakie.