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General Mach Discussion / Re: Hall of shame

« on: December 18, 2017, 02:00:38 AM »

There is no justification for using Pirate software.

Tweakie.

1802

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

« on: December 13, 2017, 08:15:29 AM »

Something for others who may be interested in halftone techniques…

SquiggleDraw (https://github.com/gwygonik/SquiggleDraw) is an App. which runs inside Processing (https://processing.org/). It is quite easy to set-up and use and it produces an .svg image which can be converted to Gcode within Inkscape (https://inkscape.org/en/) or other vector software such as Aspire9 (http://www.vectric.com/products/aspire.html) .

Here is an .svg generated image converted to .dxf (http://ul.to/vo1uiw3x)
 and the associated Mach3 Laser toolpath (http://ul.to/gqg1inuc)
 

Tweakie.

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*****VIDEOS***** / Re: Greetings from Tokyo with YouTube videos

« on: December 13, 2017, 01:45:20 AM »

As always, excellent work Yoshii and thank you for sharing it with us.

Wishing a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you and yours.

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Hall of shame

« on: December 10, 2017, 05:47:20 AM »

ChinaCNCzone have no shame - once it was the Papa Fabio pirate license, now it is the MaoA˜A ¯Ðtonar pirate license.  

Tweakie.

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Galil / Re: Need Help With DMC-17x0 and ICM-1900 output wiring

« on: December 10, 2017, 04:35:15 AM »

I am sure you will not be the first (or last) person to do just this. 

Good news that you found it though.

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FAQs / Re: Invalid Bootloader Signature

« on: December 08, 2017, 08:02:23 AM »

Although I have never seen that particular error message if you have a corrupt .xml that could possibly be the problem.

Use; Operator / Restore Settings to install a backup .xml from a date before the problems began.

Tweakie.

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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.