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SmoothStepper USB / Re: Availability

« on: January 28, 2016, 09:21:48 AM »

Still available and still excellent support (Mach3 and Mach4 compatable).

My advice would be to order direct from Warp9 http://www.warp9td.com/

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Help Needed with MY 3040 cnc machine -Z axis Problems.

« on: January 28, 2016, 05:15:39 AM »

Hi Bob,

In a word 'no'

Slow jog is by default set at 80% (I think - long while since I made a fresh install) increasing it to 100% will give maximum speed. The 'shift' key overrides the slow jog setting making it 100%.

In Motor Tuning, the Velocity of each axis should, ideally, be set 30% lower than the speed at which the motors nearly but just don't quite stall. Similar with Acceleration.

Within your Gcode the G0 / G00 moves are rapids and the axis will travel at the Velocity set in Motor Tuning - the G01 / G02 / G03 moves are at the Velocity determined by the Feed-rate which has been set (within the Gcode program) by the F#### command.

The Mach3 manual explains all this much better than I can. http://www.machsupport.com/help-learning/product-manuals/

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Help Needed with MY 3040 cnc machine -Z axis Problems.

« on: January 28, 2016, 04:43:56 AM »

I am pleased you have found the problem.

You are not the first and you will not be the last to discover that a loose coupling is the root cause of many problems 

You cannot get rapids faster than the set velocity, however, try holding down the shift key when jogging if this increases speed then the Tab key will bring up the pendant display where there is a Slow Jog Rate % which you can set.

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: axis stall

« on: January 28, 2016, 03:41:47 AM »

This does indeed sound a bit weird.
Which version of Mach3 are you using ??

If you attach your .xml file (the one from your Mach3 folder named <your profile>.xml [typically Mach3Mill.xml]) copy and rename it to paragon.xml then use the 'Reply' tab and Additional Options to post it - I will see if I can spot any problems in your set-up that may be causing the issue.

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Help Needed with MY 3040 cnc machine -Z axis Problems.

« on: January 28, 2016, 03:35:54 AM »

I suspect that your Velocity / Acceleration for the Z axis is set too high in Motor Tuning.

If you attach your .xml file (the one from your Mach3 folder named <your profile>.xml [typically Mach3Mill.xml]) copy and rename it to snakesound.xml then use the 'Reply' tab and Additional Options to post it - I will see if I can spot any problems in your set-up that may be causing the issue.

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / MOVED: Time in Int. Mach3

« on: January 28, 2016, 03:26:44 AM »

This topic has been moved to Spanish.

http://www.machsupport.com/forum/index.php?topic=31786.0

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Mach Screens / Re: My screen

« on: January 27, 2016, 12:17:19 PM »

Nice work, a screen to be proud of.

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach 3 Scaling Problem

« on: January 27, 2016, 10:49:53 AM »

I have a problem where over 16 inches the actual span of a plasma cut part turns out to be about 15.96875.  so I am losing about 1/32 over 16"  This same error is also reflected in spacing between holes, so it is not a function of kerf width.  Should this be adjusted in Scale DROs, or is there a better way to do this?  I am concerned that if I make a correction here, running a code written by someone else will undo my correction and unnecessary scrap will be generated.  Please advise. 

An error like that would seem to indicate that you have not set your steps per unit correctly. On the settings page there is a button 'set steps per unit' click the button and follow the onscreen instructions to check your current settings.

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Help Can't get steppers to move!!!

« on: January 27, 2016, 06:04:42 AM »

thats a sideways picture of the pulse output signal from breakout board on a scope.

Really?
It looks like someone may have hacked the URL, because that 1st photo comes from anysex.com (it says so on the photo), and what the girl is doing to the man has nothing to do with CNC.
Perhaps a Mod needs to check?


Cheers

Changed images from URL posting to actual image posting - should solve the problem. 

Tweakie.

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French / Re: mach3 et gerner hs 750

« on: January 27, 2016, 03:12:25 AM »

Hi Frank,

As far as I am aware the HS series uses HPGL language. It is similar to Gcode but it does not contain the Z axis position data (other than pen up / pen down). There are some programs available that will convert HPGL to Gcode so it is quite possible that a conversion between Gcode and HPGL could easily be made but, as far as I am aware, there is no way to incorporate any Z axis linear positional data.

Hope this helps.

Tweakie.