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General Mach Discussion / Re: MRT-Screens-Horiz.set

« on: April 17, 2021, 01:10:03 AM »

I think you need to contact MRT;  http://www.midwestrapidtool.com/contact.htm

Tweakie.

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G-Code, CAD, and CAM discussions / MOVED: Mach3 macht Pause

« on: April 16, 2021, 07:13:57 AM »

This topic has been moved to German.

https://www.machsupport.com/forum/index.php?topic=44708.0

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Fusion360 Mach3 Radius to end differs from radius to start error

« on: April 15, 2021, 08:16:10 AM »

The IJ Mode relates to the absolute or incremental moves from which arcs are constructed within a CAD/CAM software.
Ideally your Gcode should contain G90.1 or G91.1 (as appropriate) to specify which method your CAD/CAM used to construct it's arcs.

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Fusion360 Mach3 Radius to end differs from radius to start error

« on: April 15, 2021, 07:13:54 AM »

Generally the 'radius to end of arc' issue is caused by the incorrect IJ Mode being used (Config. / General Config.).

Can you post your <Profile> .xml file.

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: MPG issue

« on: April 15, 2021, 03:34:53 AM »

Stranger things do happen - CNC Drive staff spend a lot of time helping Mach3 users and providing support for their Mach3 plugin.

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: PWM laser connections

« on: April 13, 2021, 01:13:45 AM »

Hi Fyshious,

With the Warp9 ESS & Mach3 the PWM signal can be gated with the M11/M10 switching signal within software onboard the ESS – my little NAND gate circuit is not required.

If you follow Warp9’s Laser setup instructions here, you should be good to go.
https://www.warp9td.com/index.php/gettingstarted/setting-up-the-smoothstepper-and-mach#Laser

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Cut path changes with each pass. At end of run ends offset from original zero.

« on: April 12, 2021, 02:11:29 AM »

About ready to pull the plug on Mach and go to stand alone system but wanted to make one last attempt to solve issue before making the change. I have pretty much exhausted all of my ways of getting assistance as no one knows why or does not reply to request for assistance.

I would suspect your self-build controller.
Perhaps consider a controller with proper manufacturer's support such as the 'Gecko 540' or similar quality product. https://www.geckodrive.com/g540-4-axis-digital-stepper-drive.html

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / MOVED: The machine can jog around, but nothing happens from MDI or GCode

« on: April 08, 2021, 01:46:55 AM »

This topic has been moved to Mach4 General Discussion.

https://www.machsupport.com/forum/index.php?topic=44660.0

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Help needed to engrave emblem...

« on: April 07, 2021, 01:23:39 AM »

Hi Mariah,

I fully understand that getting to understand any new software is initally not that easy but hopefully it will all make sense in the end - it's just a matter of determination (and perhaps a bit of luck).

Google, download and install  '7-Zip'  this software will enable you to unzip files correctly.

Extract from F-Engrave instructions…

‘I provide a zip file containing windows executable files for F-Engrave, ttf2cxf_stream and Potrace (the file is F-Engrave-X.XX_win.zip. X.XX is the version number). The zip file also contains some fonts to get you started. Unzip the file and double click on the f-engrave.exe file and you are off and running.

If the windows executable (f-engrave.exe) does not work right away install the “Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable Package (x86)”. The program I use to create the Windows executables (py2exe) has a dependency to this package’

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‘After F-Engrave is running you need to tell F-Engrave where your font files are. To do this set the directory in the Settings-General Settings menu and save a g-code file to config.ngc in your home directory. F-Engrave will read the config.ngc file every time you start F-Engrave and any settings that you had input prior to saving will be recalled. (alternately you can save the file to ~/.fengraverc either file will work the same)’



Tweakie.

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Mach3 under Vista / Re: Setting up mach 3 on good used cpu win7

« on: April 06, 2021, 02:34:35 AM »

Perhaps the easy solution would be to forget using the Parallel Port and choose a good quality external motion controller (such as the CNC Drive UC300ETH or Warp9 ESS). Overall, this would be a step in the right direction.

Tweakie.