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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach3 issues with new computer

« on: December 07, 2017, 04:56:50 AM »

Hi Alex,

I think 10mm out of position represents too many lost steps if they were just random so my best (and wild) guess is that you have a motor driver overheating and perhaps partially shutting down.

Perhaps check the temp. of the driver chips and temporarily fit a cooling fan to see if this makes any difference.

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SmoothStepper USB / Re: M62 / M63

« on: December 07, 2017, 02:28:24 AM »

The arcs version of my test test file (Star Trek.tap) can be downloaded from here; http://www.machsupport.com/forum/index.php/topic,18345.0.html

The file contains a few unnecessary M63P1 commands (my post processor still needs some work) but it should give you an idea of what is required.

Tweakie.

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Brains Development / Re: Mach holding spindle speed

« on: December 07, 2017, 02:07:09 AM »

is there a setting in Mach to tell it to set S to 0 when the M5 command is initiated?

Hi Art,

In the folder C: / Mach3 / macros / Mach3Mill (or whatever Profile you are using) add the line   Code("S0")   to the file   m5.m1s  then save the file.

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach3 issues with new computer

« on: December 07, 2017, 01:50:37 AM »

it just loses steps and kind of shifts position and the part that ive been machining for however long, be it an hour or 6 hours is ruined, its even more painful when its the finishing pass in the last 1000 lines of code.

Hi Alex,

Could you perhaps post a picture of what is happening to the work when it goes wrong ?

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach3 Spindle output variation

« on: December 07, 2017, 01:42:34 AM »

Pin 1 is often not used when it comes to parallel port operation (it is bit of an oddball).

Can you perhaps use a different pin (2 - 9, 14, 16, 17) ?

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach3 Demo Not running as expected

« on: December 07, 2017, 01:35:02 AM »

Might you point me to a sample mill  G code file that will run properly on a freshly installed copy of the Mach3 Demo software;  using the default mill profile ? I understand machine coords, work coords etc.

There are many here to choose from; http://www.machsupport.com/forum/index.php/topic,18345.0.html

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Tangent Corner / Super Kitten.

« on: December 06, 2017, 07:57:16 AM »

So keen to learn.

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Todays's Computer hardware.

« on: December 05, 2017, 02:36:19 AM »

Excellent.
I am pleased you found a perfect solution.

Just a note for others - when fitting a PCI Parallel Port card to a new PC make sure the card is to the old 5Volt standard and not the new 3.3Volt standard. If your controller is expecting 5Volt TTL logic and only gets 3.3Volt TTL logic then loosing steps is often the result. This thread relates http://www.machsupport.com/forum/index.php/topic,34848.0.html

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach3 on USB card Windows 7 help please

« on: December 02, 2017, 04:29:57 AM »

Tweakie,
I would rather use Mach3, I have ran it since I started carving.

Unfortunately, that's not a Mach3 compatible board.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach3 on USB card Windows 7 help please

« on: December 01, 2017, 05:49:27 AM »

One of the questions would be, which should I go with, Mach3, or Planet CNC on getting my machine back running?

Obviously I am biased but I would recommend Mach3 or 4.

So really want to try making the USB board work if at all possible. I have no paper work at all, so any help with this would be so kind.

Perhaps if you provide full details and a picture of your USB breakout board someone may be able to help.