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Show"N"Tell ( What you have made with your CNC machine.) / Re: breakout+driver

« on: December 03, 2013, 02:22:05 AM »

Did they design the Hadron collider to accept a pod you could ride in? Seems a terrible waste if they didn't.

That would be some ride Brett 

Tweakie.

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Show"N"Tell ( What you have made with your CNC machine.) / Re: breakout+driver

« on: December 02, 2013, 11:46:27 AM »

Electrons move at 186,000 miles per second

An electron can approach, but never quite reach, the speed of light in a vacuum. (http://home.web.cern.ch/about/accelerators/large-hadron-collider).

Tweakie.

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Promote and discuss your product / Re: PicEngrave Pro 4 Upgrade

« on: December 02, 2013, 04:00:34 AM »

Excellent software John, my congratulations.

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Need help with router. Slow and jerky.

« on: December 01, 2013, 03:27:18 AM »

The problem is most prevalent when the machine is going around the tips and tails of the ski running lots of code.

Perhaps take a look at your CAD/CAM software and it's post processor.

If you are using Arcs for the curves then the subsequent machine movement will be smoother than if you are using lots of straight lines for the curves. 

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: other way to turn off torch

« on: November 28, 2013, 05:17:03 AM »

Hi Richard,

You could use the command M11P1 to turn on Output #1 and the command M10P1 to turn off output #1. Each of these commands needs to be followed by an axis (any axis) movement in the GCode and you just need to be using Mach3 version R3.043.057 (or later).

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: other way to turn off torch

« on: November 28, 2013, 04:39:55 AM »

Hi Richard,

This is, in a way, similar to the issue we had with lasers, a couple of years back, and needing a fast method of switching them on / off.
The initial solution was to use an imaginary axis Direction pin (for example AxisB). The command B1 would turn the laser on and the command B0 would turn the laser off.
A more sophisticated approach (and following some nifty work by Brian Barker in restoring the command set) is the Mach3 M11P1 / M10P1 or the E1P0 / E1P1 command set (they both work in the same way).

If it is of any interest there are some more details of this here; http://hobbycncart.com/publ/cikkek/mach3_temaju_cikkek/switching_a_laser_under_mach_control/8-1-0-29


Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Signal ground / Earth ground

« on: November 27, 2013, 10:44:45 AM »

This thread may help you;  http://www.machsupport.com/forum/index.php/topic,9587.0.html

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: computer keep on switching of when the plasma ark(spark)

« on: November 27, 2013, 02:01:31 AM »

Interesting Tweakie, what about the signal grounds like pins 18-25 on a DB25 connector? can that be grounded at both ends? I hope.

Tony

Hi Tony,

Yes, the 18-25 is common signal GND between the PC and the controller but remember that this is signal GND, it is not Earth.

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Only running first 500 lines

« on: November 26, 2013, 11:30:00 AM »

Hi Joe,

The demo version of Mach3 is limited to 500 lines of code so you can 'try before you buy'.  http://www.machsupport.com/licensing/

Tweakie.

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Mach SDK plugin questions and answers. / Re: download Mach3 SDK

« on: November 25, 2013, 05:51:37 AM »

http://www.machsupport.com/software/downloads-updates/

Tweakie.