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General Mach Discussion / Re: How to slave motors 2 by 2

« on: June 26, 2016, 02:43:52 AM »

Mach3 has been designed to slave;

X axis to either A, B, C
Y axis to either A, B, C
Z axis to either A, B, C

And without duplication of any slaved axis.

You can slave up to 3 pairs of motors and obviously you can call these motors any axis you choose (without duplication) but to make sense of any key presses or screen DRO’s you would use one of the available Screen Designers to modify your screen to change the X, Y, Z axes DRO’s description to your own choice (deleting the A or 4 axis DRO as this will not be operational if you slave any axis to A).

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: License Installing problem

« on: June 26, 2016, 01:44:40 AM »

Unzip the license file that was sent to you.
Open the folder mach3.
Open the folder JOHN……….
Copy the file Mach1Lic.dat into your C: Mach3 folder.

On restarting Mach3 you will have Licensed To: John………... and the demo restrictions removed.

Tweakie.

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FAQs / Re: Setting Mach 3 Port to PCI parallel port address

« on: June 25, 2016, 11:44:53 AM »

The recommended, basic computer requirements when using the parallel port for Mach3 machine control are as follows:

Desktop PC (Laptops are not supported) with at least one parallel port
32-bit version of Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista, or Windows 7 (64-bit versions will not work)
1Ghz CPU
512MB RAM
Non-integrated Video Card with 32MB RAM(Large G-code files, especially 3D files will require a video card with 512MB RAM or higher)

Does your PC meet these requirements ?

Tweakie.

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CS-Lab / Re: Jerky movement between strait movements and curves.

« on: June 23, 2016, 02:12:49 AM »

 If it's any help, the most popular version appears to be R3.043.062 and this can be downloaded from here;
http://ftp://anonymous:guest@machsupport.com/Mach3/Mach3Version3.043.062.exe

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: XY Datum Position

« on: June 22, 2016, 01:59:15 AM »

That's an unusual problem...

Does your machine have the X axis Left to Right and the Y axis Front to Back ?
In Aspire, check that you are setting the work datum point as the front left corner.

Tweakie.

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Third party software and hardware support forums. / Re: BOBCAD V23 does not run on Win 10 (Why not?)

« on: June 20, 2016, 03:03:59 AM »

That's pretty typical of BobCad but I think the answer you received (pay for the upgrade) is probably the only way.

Perhaps cut your losses and go for something else (with better and more customer friendly support) the Vectric range of products comes to mind 

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Z movement

« on: June 19, 2016, 04:10:04 AM »

I think you need to look at the CAM software you are using to generate your Gcode.

Just a suggestion, but if you are not going to be using or setting-up the offsets within Mach3 then perhaps exclude those related Gcodes from your generated file.

Tweakie.

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German / Re: Laser M10P1

« on: June 18, 2016, 11:46:56 AM »

It is not mandatory. I would think any value between 1K and 22K would be OK.
(I use a 10K, 10 turn, potentiometer with calibrated dial).

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Z movement

« on: June 18, 2016, 08:30:21 AM »

I am not certain it affects your Z axis DRO position but check that your G54 work offsets are set correctly.  Also and perhaps more importantly, check your G43 tool length offsets.

Tweakie.

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SmoothStepper USB / MOVED: Re ESS and Mach 4

« on: June 16, 2016, 12:17:06 PM »

This topic has been moved to Mach4 General Discussion.

http://www.machsupport.com/forum/index.php?topic=32750.0