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General Mach Discussion / Re: Chinese motor controller

« on: February 28, 2016, 08:14:11 AM »

Hi Dave,

Ashamed to admit it but I buy a lot of electronic stuff from China and I always allow for a 20% reject rate (it's cheap but still comes out on the plus side).

Tweakie.

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Tangent Corner / Dogs are smart ?

« on: February 28, 2016, 07:42:12 AM »

A very good friend of mine, in the Netherlands, reminded me this morning...

"If you want the best seat in the house then you have to move the dog"

Is this the same in other countries around the world ??

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Upgrading Mach3-2010 to Mach3-2016

« on: February 28, 2016, 04:41:40 AM »

Your ‘Profile’ is shown at the bottom right of the main Mach screen (it is typically Mach3Mill).
The ‘Profile’.xml (typically Mach3Mill.xml) contains all you settings and this is located within the Mach3 folder which is located (typically) in your C: drive (use Windows Explorer).
Macro’s and Brains are within the Mach3 folder.

Tweakie.

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Show"N"Tell ( Your Machines) / Re: Perpetual Motor Magnets

« on: February 28, 2016, 03:42:25 AM »

That sounds too good to be true 

Tweakie.

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LazyCam (Beta) / Re: Offset malfunction

« on: February 28, 2016, 02:58:20 AM »

The 'Crop Circles' have appeared because you have the incorrect IJ Mode set.

In Config / General Config change the IJ Mode then regen. toolpath.

This problem occurs because Mach3 caters for two different methods of defining arcs (Absolute and Incremental) as different CAD/CAM packages may use either of these different methods. Ideally your CAD/CAM generated Gcode should include the G90.1 /G91.1 (as appropriate) but alas it does not always happen. LazyCam was abandoned many years back and nowadays there are much better packages available - some are free but like all things 'you get what you pay for'.

Hope this helps.

Tweakie.

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Show"N"Tell ( Your Machines) / Re: Perpetual Motor Magnets

« on: February 28, 2016, 02:44:39 AM »

Don't waste your time, effort and money.

In 1494 Leonardo da Vinci summed it up well when he said...
Oh ye seekers after perpetual motion, how many vain chimeras have you pursued? Go and take your place with the alchemists.

Having said that, it has been established that in quantum physics the very small do not always obey the laws of phisycs as we know them. Therefore it would not be unreasonable to assume that some things may not always obey the first and second laws of thermodynamics as we know them.
One day there will be some kind of breakthrough but it is not going to be any time soon.

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Upgrading Mach3-2010 to Mach3-2016

« on: February 28, 2016, 02:22:12 AM »

1) Backup the following to the desktop, or even better, a USB drive:

XML(Profile) – This stores you’re settings for Mach3, if you lose it you will need to re-setup you’re ports and pins, motor tuning, etc.
Screensets
Macros/Brains
(Prehaps best to just backup/copy the whole Mach3 folder)

2) Download the current version of Mach3 from the Downloads & Update page.

3) Install the downloaded version; allow the install path to default to where Mach3 is installed.

4) Copy over to the new install the original ...

XML(profile)
Screensets
Macro's/Brains

WARNING: If you do not backup the files in Step 1, you will lose ALL settings and configurations.

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Some starting advice for two steppers on one axis

« on: February 27, 2016, 07:41:16 AM »

Yes, sorry Russ - I was referring to the Bob.

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: My Mach3 Adventure, so far

« on: February 27, 2016, 07:31:38 AM »

Hi Rick,

It will take me forever to read them all but from what I have read so far "Excellent work" and thanks for sharing this extremely educational information.

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach 3 PWM signal inverted?

« on: February 27, 2016, 06:55:04 AM »

 

Tweakie.