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

« on: December 29, 2012, 06:15:35 AM »

Excellent work John, I am pleased to hear that you have your new electronics, for the laser power control, all up and running – there will be no stopping you now. 

(For others following this thread who may be interested in using diode lasers with Mach3 there are some more pictures and discussion on the techniques, hardware, development and progress in this thread http://hobbycncart.com/forum/63-151-8 )

Tweakie.

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Show"N"Tell ( Your Machines) / Re: CNC Hot Wire Foam cutter

« on: December 28, 2012, 08:17:56 AM »

Excellent work Keith, I look forward to seeing some of the foam cuts. 

Tweakie.

(I love the Vulcan - I have a working AAPU [Rover jet engine] removed from one of the vulcan aircraft that were scrapped).

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General Mach Discussion / Re: setting up limit switches with a Max nc cl controller is it possible

« on: December 26, 2012, 04:12:02 AM »

This question has been raised before and Hood posted the link to some further MaxNC (and other) information; ftp://machsupport.com/ExtraInformation/

If you check out the documents relating to MaxNC you will find one mentions using LPT Pin12 as the home switches input etc.

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Thinking of a new wrapper function for MAch3.

« on: December 24, 2012, 11:36:29 AM »

Thanks Terry, I'm up to speed on that one - the reset scale function has already been added to my Return Mach3 to Normal button. 

Tweakie.

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G-Code, CAD, and CAM discussions / Re: Cam Program - A couple quick questions for a newbie

« on: December 24, 2012, 07:48:20 AM »

Hi Zig,

Good to hear that your machine is coming along well.

No problem with the Phlatboys code from Sketch-up here so I am not sure what it is that you are doing wrong. 

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Thinking of a new wrapper function for MAch3.

« on: December 24, 2012, 06:03:41 AM »

Scale Button and the X & Y max. DRO's duly added. 

Excellent thought Terry.

Many thanks.

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Thinking of a new wrapper function for MAch3.

« on: December 22, 2012, 04:49:59 AM »

A BIG "Thank You" to OzzieII for the original idea and BR549 for all the work he has done on this screen / wizard.

I had to move around some of the components to avoid conflict with my global screen items but this has now been added as a page to my standard Mach3 screen 1024.set

This method is so quick and easy to use, with existing tool-path files, it is just amazing and once again, thank you TP.

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Precipitous Loss of Zero

« on: December 21, 2012, 10:37:21 AM »

As Ray has said.

Just as a general method the Velocity and acceleration are increased, in stages, until the motor stalls (squeals) then the settings are reduced by at least 30% (sometimes by as much as 50%).

Tweakie.

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

« on: December 21, 2012, 02:14:20 AM »

Hi Regularjo,

It is best to place any questions as a new topic in the General section as this is only the place for introductions.

Mach3 will accept .txt / .nc / .tap file extensions - so as long as your GCode is in the right format for Mach to understand there is no problem.
If your code does not run you will probably have an error message in the status panel (bottom of Mach window) and this gives the clue to the reason it will not run.
Perhaps take a look at the sample GCode programs (Mach3 / GCode folder) and verify that your GCode is in the same format etc.

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: How do you change motor direction.

« on: December 20, 2012, 03:13:40 AM »

Check that you have the correct Port & Pin allocation for Step and Direction for each axis (Config / Ports & Pins / Motor Outputs).

Tweakie.