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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach3 Bug? Causing overrun of drives

« on: March 17, 2013, 03:46:40 AM »

Hi Pete,

If you could zip and post (or e-mail me) a copy of the GCode which has the repeatable problem I would be happy to run it here and if the problem shows on my system then perhaps I could suggest a possible solution.

Tweakie.

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

« on: March 16, 2013, 05:50:28 AM »

Hi Gary,

Welcome to the forum.

I look forward to seeing some pictures of you project and hearing of your construction techniques etc.

You could post the information as a new topic here http://www.machsupport.com/forum/index.php/board,27.0.html as I am sure there will be much interest.

Tweakie.

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Mach SDK plugin questions and answers. / Re: Test Speak

« on: March 12, 2013, 11:56:11 AM »

Nice one Kenneth 

Perhaps changing the text a little could help.

Try Speak " Milley meters " or perhaps some other combination.

Tweakie.

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Show"N"Tell ( Your Machines) / Re: Chiron FZ12 on its way sometime soon(ish)

« on: March 11, 2013, 09:01:40 AM »

Excellent and extremely neat wiring job Hood. 

( I used to visit Portsmouth quite frequently and always wondered why most of the house's had grey painted fences, gates and garage doors etc. - then it dawned on me - the Dockyard's and 'Battleship Grey'  ).

Tweakie.

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VB and the development of wizards / Re: need help in vbscript

« on: March 11, 2013, 08:52:52 AM »

Hi  bry,

Welcome to the forum.

Check out the documents and video's section it should contain all the information you need to learn. 

http://www.machsupport.com/docs/VBScript_Commands.pdf  this will get you started.

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Download Error

« on: March 09, 2013, 07:44:11 AM »

Hi Pete,

Welcome to the forum.

This is probably a pretty stupid answer but have you checked your 'C:/Documents and Settings/All users/Start Menu/Programs' for a Mach3 folder. If there is not one there then perhaps create a Mach3 folder and see if this solves the problem with the install.

If it still fails then perhaps try installing an earlier or later version of Mach3. ftp://machsupport.com/Mach/

Tweakie.

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

« on: March 09, 2013, 03:32:21 AM »

Thanks Guys, but I can’t help thinking that Art deserves the credit here.
 
Although, over the years, I have made a few minor changes to the code (basically to suit the operation of my own machine) the Impact / Laser Engraving plugin was written by Art in 2007 – long before we even had a laser to test it with. He certainly has foresight and his software never ceases to amaze me.

My current worries are that I will become a Dinosaur - because this plugin works so well, I will never be able to leave Mach3 for Version 4. 

There was some discussion (in another thread) where I doubted that laser produced lithophanes could actually produce a resolution equal to spindle engraved versions but since getting hold of some genuine Corian to try - I now think that it is possible to get extremely close.
The big advantage is that the laser takes half an hour to produce a small, 0.1mm step-over, litho that may take half a day with spindle engraving.

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: F-Engrave - V-Carve Quesiton

« on: March 09, 2013, 02:25:14 AM »

Hi Zig,

Very nice work 

Have you set the tool diameter and angle correctly ?

You may also want to increase your Mach3 axis acceleration figures.

Tweakie.

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Mach3 under Vista / Re: Z position change after load the NC program

« on: March 08, 2013, 04:06:42 AM »

Hi Giana,

Everybody uses their machines differently but, because I do not use fixture offsets, I uncheck all the DRO related boxes in this part of the General Config. window - this maintains all DRO's at zero on startup and when loading new programs.

I don't know if this helps with your problem.

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: MI2000 CNC machine from 19's year

« on: March 08, 2013, 03:54:21 AM »

So i should take the multimeter and turn on my pc and take the measure voltage on the pc's parallel port connectiion?

Yes. 

Tweakie.