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General Mach Discussion / Re: Need Help Connecting USB CNC Board to Mach3

« on: November 19, 2020, 01:08:52 AM »

Your USB board needs a Mach3 Motion Controller 'Plugin' in order to operate. If you do not have this plugin then the USB board is useless as far as Mach3 is concerned and it needs to be replaced. As your USB board also contains the stepper drivers then they need to be replaced as well.
As Mach3 is now obsolescent you should look for replacement parts that are also compatible with Mach4 (the ESS from Warp9 and the G540 from Gecko would be good but they are not cheap).

Tweakie.

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G-Code, CAD, and CAM discussions / Re: 3d-modeling and g-code generating for beginners

« on: November 18, 2020, 10:24:36 AM »

If your 3D modelling package will output an .stl file then MeshCam may be a good choice for creating a Gcode file for your CNC.   https://www.grzsoftware.com/

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Cycle start and spindle start

« on: November 18, 2020, 10:05:36 AM »

Hi kk,

It is a little more complicated but yes you can add the Code M03 and the delay Code to the Start Button using a Screen Designer such as Klaus’s Mach Screen which can be downloaded from here;  http://www.kd-dietz.de/index_eng
Buttons and Macros are programmed using a subset of VB (Visual Basic) called Cypress Enable and the following documents relate;
http://www.machsupport.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Mach3_V3.x_Macro_Prog_Ref.pdf
http://www.machsupport.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/VBScript_Commands.pdf

As you suspect a bit of learning to do 

Hope this helps.

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Cycle start and spindle start

« on: November 18, 2020, 01:08:16 AM »

That is the way of Mach3 and we generally learn to use things the way they are.

You could of course change the way Mach3 works for you by using one of the screen editors to change the Cycle Start button from an OEM to a VB Button which could then contain the code of your choice.

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / MOVED: error 5: access is denied

« on: November 16, 2020, 01:12:57 AM »

This topic has been moved to Mach4 General Discussion.

https://www.machsupport.com/forum/index.php?topic=43924.0

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General Mach Discussion / Re: mach3 running in mm and set in inches

« on: November 16, 2020, 01:11:48 AM »

Try running the Axis Calibration wizard (Settings page) just to check that you have your Steps per Unit set correctly for each axis.

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: designing problem

« on: November 14, 2020, 06:16:01 AM »

The Allowed file types are: brn, doc, dwg, dxf, exe, fla, gif, grab, igs, ini, job, jpg, Lcam, lset, lua, M1s, m3p, m4prof, mcc, mcs, mpg, msi, nc, ods, pcm, pdf, pmc, PNG, png, pst, rar, set, shp, swf, tap, tif, txt, vbs, xls, xml, zip.

You could perhaps use an online converter to change your fcstd files to .dxf.

Tweakie.

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G-Code, CAD, and CAM discussions / Re: Question on coordinate system offsets

« on: November 14, 2020, 01:06:05 AM »

There is more than one way of achieving this type of offset machining and Roger has explained in detail those methods in his .pdf document which you can download from here;  https://www.machsupport.com/forum/index.php?topic=33595.0

Hope this helps.

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Sieg Machines / MOVED: Seig 2.7

« on: November 11, 2020, 07:05:48 AM »

This topic has been moved to Mach4 General Discussion.

https://www.machsupport.com/forum/index.php?topic=43907.0

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Incomplete GUI

« on: November 11, 2020, 03:08:35 AM »

You are using a very old version of Mach3. The final version can be downloaded from here; https://www.machsupport.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Mach3Version3.043.exe

Just run the install over the top of your existing version but make a backup of your existing Mach3 folder just in case you need to transfer any custom macro's etc.