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General Mach Discussion / Re: Hall of shame

« on: February 12, 2017, 04:44:22 AM »

I mentioned FASTERCNC.CO.LTD in an earlier post as a peddler of a Mach3 pirate license.
Now it appears that they are also using the name DDREAMCNC.CO.LTD to peddle the same Mach3 fake license.

Tweakie.

1732

General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach3 PWM Settings

« on: February 12, 2017, 01:53:07 AM »

I didn’t know that I have to switch the PWM controller on/off and I can’t locate where this setting is.

Section 5.5.5.2 of the Mach3 manual details the procedure.  http://www.machsupport.com/help-learning/product-manuals/

Tweakie.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Post Processor

« on: February 11, 2017, 03:05:20 AM »

What post processor do I pick when using VCarve pro 8.

firechief

Mach2/3 Arcs .... or  Mach2/3 ATC Arcs .... work just fine.

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Anyone heard from Hood lately?

« on: February 10, 2017, 06:03:37 AM »

I just thinking the same thing, hope he is OK and not snowed-in up there.

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Position Loss Issue

« on: February 10, 2017, 05:23:11 AM »

Try reducing your Velocity and Acceleration in Motor Tuning by 50 % for your X and Y axes (saving the changes for each axis).

Does your machine still loose position ?

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach3 DriverTest Blue Screen of Death

« on: February 10, 2017, 04:21:45 AM »

From my experience Mach3 seems to work best with WinXP.

Assuming you are going to use the parallel port for communication then any OS you choose to use must be 32 bit.

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach3 DriverTest Blue Screen of Death

« on: February 10, 2017, 03:44:45 AM »

Not much help really but my best suggestion is that you try a different PC.

Tweakie.

1738

General Mach Discussion / Re: Disk access?

« on: February 10, 2017, 03:36:31 AM »

I don't think it is anything you need to worry about, I have been using Intel SSD's without issue for more than 12 months - having just checked, they still show 100% life remaining.

Under normal conditions Mach3 will not write to the HDD/SSD during runtime when using the parallel port for machine communication.
However, when using an external motion controller the Mach3 .xml file can, and often is written to during configuration parameter changes.

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: I/O card help

« on: February 10, 2017, 01:24:02 AM »

I am pleased to hear that you have it sorted.

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach3 ruining parts

« on: February 08, 2017, 03:27:47 AM »

Amazing to see people using Mach 3 for PCB milling, pick n place, punch presses and 3d printing! I wonder if it would work with robot arms?

Mach3 does not do kinematics but it will accurately drive a robot arm if the GCode is produced using 'teach mode'. 

Tweakie.