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G-Code, CAD, and CAM discussions / F-Engrave.

« on: January 04, 2017, 02:14:23 AM »

F-Engrave has been mentioned before and it is an excellent FREE engraving software which also includes a V-Carving option.

The Scorch Works website now has an instructional video on using the V-Carve option to produce wood inlay work and it is well worth watching.

 http://www.scorchworks.com/Fengrave/fengrave.html

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: New people welcome !! Come in here and introduce your self!

« on: January 04, 2017, 01:44:01 AM »

Hi Hugh,

Welcome to the forum.

Yes sir, you can transport your Mach3 license between computers without issue.

You can also use the same license on more than one computer and provided you are not using a machine for commercial purposes on more than one machine.

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: home position with respect to limit switches

« on: January 03, 2017, 02:01:10 AM »

I don’t think it can be done exactly as you have described because the homing switch back-off distance is limited. There is a lot of reading to do but this should help…

1)   Section 4.5 of the Mach3 manual. http://www.machsupport.com/help-learning/product-manuals/
2)   The Coordinate System doc. http://www.machsupport.com/forum/index.php/topic,33595.0.html

Tweakie.

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Works in progress / Re: Visual Studio screen integration... Just for fun

« on: January 01, 2017, 02:27:53 AM »

Excellent work Chris.

Tweakie.

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Tangent Corner / Re: Larning th hard way.

« on: December 31, 2016, 07:40:38 AM »

Found it 

Tweakie.

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Tangent Corner / Larning th hard way.

« on: December 31, 2016, 03:03:02 AM »

Just as a tip to othrs, whn th workshop nds claning tak car whn using th shop vac on th computr kyboard. It mad such a good job on min that I had to spnd about an hour going through th bag dust and shavings to find my missing kytops – and thr is still on missing. 

Twaki.

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Show"N"Tell ( What you have made with your CNC machine.) / Re: DIY CNC - Homemade.

« on: December 31, 2016, 02:46:16 AM »

Nice work Steve, thanks for posting the video.

Tweakie.

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Share Your GCode / Re: Can't Fix Stupid Video and File

« on: December 31, 2016, 02:22:38 AM »

  Thanks for sharing 

Tweakie.

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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.