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

« on: August 26, 2015, 03:47:52 AM »

Sorry to say this but the symptoms you have described exactly match those of a blown laser diode. 

Tweakie.

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Mach3 under Vista / Re: Mach3 under win10

« on: August 26, 2015, 03:38:23 AM »

Is there going to be a fix for the parallel port so Mach can run on Windows 10?

Unfortunately not - Win 10 will require an external motion controller for Mach3 operation.

Tweakie.

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

« on: August 24, 2015, 01:46:07 AM »

Hello everyone,just introducing myself, i am new to lazycam and Mach 3, i got myself one of those Chinese CNC mills (6040), i am pretty happy with it, i practiced a lot of CADCAM in school, but since i started working i never got a chance to do it any more, so this CNC is my opportunity to do again something i really enjoyed.
I got a problem with Lazycam right now, i want to cut the outline  of a letter G, i create the vector in illustrator, export it as dxf, but when i open it in LazyCam some lines take shortcuts and skip one or 2 anchor points.
I dont know how to load an image here, let me keep trying.

Hi Jesusrendonlara,

Regarding your LazyCam issues – Initially, please take a look through the LazyCam manual to see if this provides an answer to your question.
http://www.machsupport.com/forum/index.php/topic,12078.0.html

If not then perhaps post your questions, as a new topic, in the LazyCam section where Rich is sure to respond. http://www.machsupport.com/forum/index.php/board,14.0.html

Tweakie.

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FAQs / Re: Mach 3 only loads half of the gcode

« on: August 23, 2015, 07:20:15 AM »

i am having the same issues only a portion of the gcode loads up when I load it but that's when the parallel drivers are installed when i uninstall mach3 and install it again without the parallel driver then the entire gcode loads. Any help would be appreciated.

Without the licence file installed Mach3 operates in Demo mode. It will only run the first 500 lines of Gcode with the parallel port drivers installed - purchasing and installing the Mach3 license file removes this restriction.

Tweakie.

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

« on: August 22, 2015, 07:31:00 AM »

Hi George,

I have moved your post to the General Section as a New Topic 'Plasma help please' - I hope this brings the necessary response towards resolving your uneven cutting problem.  http://www.machsupport.com/forum/index.php/topic,30729.0.html

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Phidgets USB Encoder Interface and Mach 3

« on: August 20, 2015, 06:19:38 AM »

Hello all,

Does anyone know if there is a Mach 3 plug-in for the Phidgets USB Encoder interface (http://www.phidgets.com/products.php?category=7&product_id=1047_1)?

Thanks!
MotoDan

Hi Dan,

As far as I am aware nobody (as yet) has ever written a Mach3 plugin for the Phidgets interface. If you have not done so already then perhaps the Phidgets forum may be a good place to ask.

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Machine gets wacky after tool change.

« on: August 19, 2015, 12:56:41 AM »

when i try to run any of my programs that were working fine before i get an error that says can not do g1 at zero feedrate.

Sounds like none of your programs have the feed-rate set before you are commanding a feed-rate move ??

Perhaps the easiest solution would be to add F100 (or whatever feed-rate you require) to the Initialization String (Config / General Config).

Tweakie.

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Mach SDK plugin questions and answers. / Re: Impact engraving plugin

« on: August 18, 2015, 01:58:29 AM »

As the original link seems to have disappeared, the latest version of the Impact / Laser plugin (v1.2c) can be downloaded from here;

http://www.machsupport.com/forum/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=12444.0;attach=41519

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Tangential cutter

« on: August 18, 2015, 01:44:45 AM »

Hi Don,

It is my understanding that future development of Mach3 has ceased (in favour of Mach4 taking over) so the existing tangential problems are unlikely to ever be fixed.

This thread may be of interest, where rolling back to using an earlier version may help but in solving one problem others seem to be created. http://www.machsupport.com/forum/index.php/topic,30623.0.html

Tweakie.

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

« on: August 17, 2015, 01:45:19 AM »

Hi Guys,

It was posted but I can't find it either now. 

The attached zip contains version 1.2c of the DLL which is the latest version.

(n.b. although I have made a number of changes to Art's Engraving DLL over the years compatibility between Impact and Laser use has always been maintained).

Tweakie.