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Share Your GCode / Re: Hows That Beer Flight Looking

« on: October 03, 2017, 04:33:48 AM »

That's the way to go - start simple and progress from there.

(Routing circular pockets can place quite a lot of stress on a machine and it is likely to show up any weaknesses which can then be dealt with accordingly).

Tweakie.


I drink my beer 'out of the can' - never have time to stand it down and look at it 

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General Mach Discussion / Re: M6 Start Macro Help

« on: October 03, 2017, 01:28:58 AM »

I have never used an ATC so cant be of much help.

Somebody here on the forum must be using ATC and hopefully they can offer some advice on changing this macro to suit your situation.

Tweakie.

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Share Your GCode / Re: Hows That Beer Flight Looking

« on: October 02, 2017, 03:42:21 AM »

Have you sorted out you Y axis and made this yet ?

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Calibration CONSTANTLY Changing

« on: September 30, 2017, 02:33:32 AM »

Which external motion controller are you using ?

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Share Your GCode / Re: Hows That Beer Flight Looking

« on: September 29, 2017, 11:47:16 AM »

There definitely is something wrong with the earlier toolpath - it was avoiding a work clamp or something weird.

Try this one - you may need to adjust feed-rates etc to suit your machine.

Tweakie.

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Share Your GCode / Re: Hows That Beer Flight Looking

« on: September 29, 2017, 11:32:34 AM »

I will do another with 3/8" cutter for you to try.

Tweakie.

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Share Your GCode / Re: Hows That Beer Flight Looking

« on: September 29, 2017, 02:27:48 AM »

Something like this perhaps ?

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Can not seem to carve out a simple box ?

« on: September 28, 2017, 10:50:44 AM »

Hi Bill,

I think it is as Craig has already said (400*25=10,000) you have your Imperial and Metric units confused.

Put you steps back to 400 and put a G20 into the beginning of your Gcode. Then it will be in Inch Units and the correct size instead of Millimeter Units and way too small.

Tweakie.

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Mach3 under Vista / Re: another issue with possibly with Win7

« on: September 28, 2017, 06:12:24 AM »

Hi Chris,

Control Panel / System / Device Manager / Ports / …

On the properties pages for the LPT port you should find the PCI card Port Address

Tweakie.

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Share Your GCode / Re: Hows That Beer Flight Looking

« on: September 28, 2017, 02:47:48 AM »

Some dimensions may be good...

length / width & material thickness ?

how many holes & their diameter ?

cutting tool diameter ?