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Show"N"Tell ( Your Machines) / Re: The Laser Project.

« on: November 01, 2015, 02:06:45 AM »

Hi Doug,

Config / General Config / Pgm End or M30 Rewind - look to see if Turn off all Outputs is checked.

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: New to CNC and having problems loading gcode

« on: October 31, 2015, 10:23:50 AM »

ahh the small print 

http://www.machsupport.com/licensing/

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: New to CNC and having problems loading gcode

« on: October 31, 2015, 07:11:24 AM »

Hi Rob,

I am guessing that you do not have a Mach3 license - in Demo mode Mach3 will only load / run the first 500 lines of Gcode.

Tweakie.

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Show"N"Tell ( Your Machines) / Re: Scrappy does his first cut!!!!!!!

« on: October 31, 2015, 02:43:16 AM »

Coming soon - - THE CHRONICLES of SCRAPPY 1 & 2 - - by STEW.
Tweakie.

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

« on: October 30, 2015, 11:57:56 AM »

Hi Gary,

Welcome to the forum.

The answer to your question is yes and hopefully you will quickly get an explanation (in the other thread) of how to do it by people who are better at explaining things than I.

Tweakie.

3526

General Mach Discussion / Re: Z-Axis Repeatability: Small Changes

« on: October 30, 2015, 02:34:29 AM »

Hi Richard V,

Try halving the Velocity and acceleration you have set for your Z axis in Motor Tuning (save the changes).

If this cures the problem then you need to find the optimum reliable settings for this axis.
If it doesn't cure the problem then I suggest you thoroughly check the mechanicals - such things as loose set screw in couplings, binding or tightness of slides or screw etc.etc.

Tweakie.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Pokeys 57E Issues mach4

« on: October 28, 2015, 03:13:53 AM »

Beautiful looking plane Paul. (Mine are all small enough to fit into the estate).

Afraid I cannot suggest anything that may cure the runaway situation - it sounds downright dangerous to me.
I gave up on Mach4 almost a year ago now. I found that I was spending more time looking at the screen and typing than I was actually running the program.
Sadly it seems that if you enjoy LUA programming, macro and problem solving in general then Mach4 is absolutely excellent but if you just want to make stuff with a CNC machine then Mach3 is still years ahead.  

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Hall of shame

« on: October 28, 2015, 02:55:52 AM »

How to get the real license?

As Peter has said, buy one from him. Alternately visit the official site http://www.machsupport.com/licensing/

Tweakie.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Pokeys 57E Issues mach4

« on: October 27, 2015, 09:24:38 AM »

Hi Paul,

Just an observation regarding your last post but you should really get into the habit of getting your control software (Mach3/4) up and running before you switch on or enable your CNC machine. Literally anything could happen (characters sent, outputs switched etc.) during the computer's software start-up sequence and an out-of-control machine does not bear thinking about the possible consequences to life and limb.

(Old hands at flying RC will know what I am talking about regarding switch-on order).

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Please help, Chinese eBay purchase!!

« on: October 26, 2015, 07:49:28 AM »

It would be so much easier setting up a Mach workshop in the Northwest (UK) as it would take minutes to get the basic setup sorted.

Sounds like you are talking yourself into a little project there Rob. 

Tweakie.