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*****VIDEOS***** / Re: Greeting from Tokyo Japan

« on: March 29, 2019, 11:22:36 AM »

Hi Yoshii,

As soon as I saw your perpetual motion machine I knew Poipoy would have something to do with it.

Thank you for sharing your work and also the wonderful Cherry Blossom video.

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: trouble getting torch to fire

« on: March 28, 2019, 02:20:24 AM »

So I  found a desk top that will work the only thing is it has a integrated video card instead of the non integrated one,  how much of a difference will that be, will that part alone cause an issue.

An integrated video can cause issues when running very long Gcode programs. These issues can usually be overcome by disabling the Toolpath Display but ideally, fitting a PCI graphics card with plenty of RAM is the way forward.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 Parallel Port Legacy Plugin

« on: March 27, 2019, 05:22:22 AM »

Why on earth would you want to run Mach4 off a parallel port? You could use that $25 toward a purchase of a Warp9 or other modern controller?

In my case I have a system that runs perfectly on the parallel port. I would like to upgrade to Mach4 but I am not going to spend hundreds of dollars to rebuild my control panel for a software upgrade. The lack of parallel port support is the only reason i'm not running Mach4 right now.

Well said Steve - I totally agree.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: trouble getting torch to fire

« on: March 26, 2019, 02:23:13 AM »

There are a number of problems associated with using Mach3 and a Laptop / Parallel Port combination. This is the reason that NFS make the following recommendations for Mach3 use;

Requirements if using the parallel port for machine control:
Desktop PC with at least one parallel port
(Laptops are not supported)
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)

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

« on: March 24, 2019, 12:57:53 PM »

Benvenuto Kristi.

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General Mach Discussion / MOVED: le frecce direzionali non funzionano

« on: March 24, 2019, 12:37:03 PM »

This topic has been moved to Italian.

https://www.machsupport.com/forum/index.php?topic=39741.0

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach3 Pause is violent

« on: March 23, 2019, 11:22:55 AM »

You should use Feed Hold (OEM1001) then Stop (OEM1003) - it will take a little longer to stop but you will not loose steps.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Dragon Project

« on: March 23, 2019, 08:21:44 AM »

Excellent.

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Tangent Corner / Re: Hmmmm .... let me explain.

« on: March 23, 2019, 02:16:03 AM »

 

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Video P*r*o*b*i*n*g / Re: 3d Probing on Granite slabs

« on: March 22, 2019, 09:11:14 AM »