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VB and the development of wizards / Re: Machining bolt heads

« on: February 21, 2014, 12:21:27 PM »

once I smash a few end mills against the stock......

 

Tweakie.

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VB and the development of wizards / Re: Machining bolt heads

« on: February 21, 2014, 02:50:19 AM »

The Mach3 Shapes wizard will do the bolt head but setting up that wizard will take a little practice.  

Tweakie.

(Steve beat me to it  )

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Show"N"Tell ( What you have made with your CNC machine.) / Re: Gun Patterns

« on: February 20, 2014, 04:42:48 AM »

My sincere condolences on your loss.

There's a few here Ron http://freedxf.com/shop/cnc-artwork/guns/

Tweakie.

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

« on: February 19, 2014, 09:32:19 AM »

Loose lens or mounting perhaps ?

Tweakie.

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Show"N"Tell ( Your Machines) / Re: My CNC Router

« on: February 19, 2014, 07:52:27 AM »

Excellent looking machine John, we definitely need to see more pictures of the details and also the things you make with it. 

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Shielding

« on: February 19, 2014, 07:43:06 AM »

I was going to build my controller with all signal shield grounds going to bob ground.
Stepper motor shield cable grounded out on the steel enclosure.
All shields connected one sidded

Hi Bob,

Welcome to the forum.

That's exactly the way I would do it.  
Just one point - take all shield earth connections to a single point on the steel enclosure (star configuration).

Tweakie.

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

« on: February 17, 2014, 11:33:33 AM »

Hi Ernie,

Follow this link http://www.machsupport.com/software/downloads-updates/

Click on FTP Downloads then FTP Server Main Menu then Mach/

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Using Mach 3 for a Rostock Delta printer

« on: February 16, 2014, 05:09:27 AM »

Hi Gary,

Just my opinion…
Assuming a clever programmer could write a Mach 3 plugin to control the Delta, you are then likely to have a non-standard system unable to take full advantage of the existing CAD/CAM software tailored specifically for that design of machine.

It’s still early days yet and they are just starting out but you may like to check, from time to time, what some of the other guys are doing here with constructing their delta’s http://openbuilds.com/?category=3d-printer-builds&id=272

Tweakie.

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

« on: February 11, 2014, 11:55:05 AM »

Hi Tom,

The manuals are all here http://www.machsupport.com/help-learning/product-manuals/

Don't worry if you can't understand it all (I've been using Mach3 for years and still don't know the half of it) because there will be some functions that you will probably never ever need to use but they should give you the general idea.

Tweakie.

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

« on: February 11, 2014, 11:37:36 AM »

Excellent looking machine Tom, you'r going to have some fun with that. 

Tweakie.