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General Mach Discussion / Re: Z Axis will not go below about -1mm when running - but thinks its going deeper?

« on: December 31, 2016, 01:53:25 AM »

My thoughts are that Mach3 is running correctly and that your Z axis is stalling on the way down.
Try halving the Velocity and Acceleration settings in Motor Tuning for you Z axis (remembering to save the changes) and see if that makes any difference.

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Reference all home nothing happening

« on: December 30, 2016, 08:31:56 AM »

Tweakie,
Please clarify. What is the "external motion device which can be purchased very reasonably"? And where would I look for them? I'm trying to sale my CNC Router and building a Joe's EVO CNC. I have a PC I can use on the EVO but it is 64bit.

Here are just a couple that come to mind…

UC100 http://cncdrive.com/UC100.html
SmoothStepper http://warp9td.com/

But, there are many more to choose from.

(Please be aware that the very cheap Chinese motion control boards may not support all the Mach3 functions and also backup / support / software and firmware updates may not be available).

Tweakie.

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Share Your GCode / Re: eifel tower.dxf

« on: December 30, 2016, 03:24:40 AM »

Sorry, but I had no idea of your exact requirements.

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Reference all home nothing happening

« on: December 30, 2016, 01:35:27 AM »

Something to consider...

Mach3 will run on any Windows OS from Windows 2000 through Windows 10. The parallel port driver included with Mach3 will only work with 32-bit DESKTOP computers (Laptops are not supported) with versions of Windows 2000 through Windows 7, but will not work with any 64-bit version of Windows or with Windows 8. Windows 8, 10 and 64 bit versions of windows require an external motion device which can be purchased very reasonably.

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Reference all home nothing happening

« on: December 29, 2016, 07:51:30 AM »

First step is to run DriverTest.exe (Mach3 folder).

Does this run correctly ?

Post you .xml file (<your profile> .xml ) then we can check your settings & look for possible errors. You need to copy the .xml file from you Mach 3 folder then rename it to  tlittler.xml then use the Additional Options... to attach to your post.

Tweakie.

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Share Your GCode / Re: eifel tower.dxf

« on: December 29, 2016, 06:03:56 AM »

This one is intended to be laser cut from 3mm MDF or Ply.

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: radius or diameter circle

« on: December 29, 2016, 01:20:56 AM »

No. How do I do that?

Section 5 of the Mach3 manual explains it better than I can;  http://www.machsupport.com/help-learning/product-manuals/

Tweakie.

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FAQs / Re: Windows 7 and Mach 3

« on: December 29, 2016, 01:12:08 AM »

Excellent news, I am pleased to hear that you have it working.

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: radius or diameter circle

« on: December 28, 2016, 10:18:04 AM »

The Gcode created by the Cut Circle wizard works just fine. Have you checked that your Steps Per Unit are set correctly ?

Tweakie.

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G-Code, CAD, and CAM discussions / Re: Trispokedovetiles: CNC code to cut tiles

« on: December 28, 2016, 08:01:43 AM »

Now I wonder if it is possible to simplify my inputs, as follows?

Cutting off - M10P1
Fast traverse - G00

in other words substituting M10P1 for M23 and leaving G00 as is.

Indeed, that works exactly the same as the previous code.

Tweakie.