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Building or Buying a Wood routing table.. Beginnners guide.. / Re: machine zero

« on: February 11, 2013, 06:36:30 AM »

Hi Jonboy,

Welcome to the forum.

Presumably your inherited machine is a 'Router style' - do you have any limit switches fitted to the axes ?

Tweakie.

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Third party software and hardware support forums. / Re: BobCad Icons

« on: February 11, 2013, 04:01:20 AM »

Hi Johnny,

Sorry that you are not getting any answers to this question.
Perhaps the BobCad community may know http://www.bobcad.com/forums/

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Limit switch activated "triggered"

« on: February 10, 2013, 10:59:47 AM »

Those who know Birmingham UK know it hasn't stopped raining or snowing this year, so everything is damp.

Just about the same here in Southend-on-Sea. 

I am pleased that you have found a solution to the problem.

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Limit switch activated "triggered"

« on: February 09, 2013, 08:17:55 AM »

Jim,

Try increasing the Debounce Interval in the General config page and see if that helps.

Tweakie.

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Share Your GCode / Re: How to speed up simple G Code

« on: February 07, 2013, 11:41:53 AM »

Are there any other commands to fire solenoids beside the M commands?

Other possible methods include VB (Cypress Enable) and as an example of the VB;

ActivateSignal(OUTPUT5)

DeActivateSignal(OUTPUT5)

This cannot be included directly within a GCode program but GCode can be included within a VB script although, as a general rule, mixing GCode with VB often leads to disaster.

I know nothing about Win 7 so cannot be of any help there but I am sure there are others who can.

Tweakie.

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Share Your GCode / Re: How to speed up simple G Code

« on: February 07, 2013, 10:16:52 AM »

Good fortune Jack - I hope it works for you. 

Do please let us know how it went.

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Skipped Parts

« on: February 07, 2013, 10:11:19 AM »

Did you really do a real-life test run ? I mean on a real machine ?

Hi Wilfried,

I only ran the tool-path (engraved into a piece of scrap) mainly because I was most interested in the efficiency of your GCode and how so much was accomplished within the 500 line limit. ( and I spotted the deliberate mistake  ).

I was using version R3.043.066 so, in retrospect, your problem may be to do with a possible restriction placed on the demo version but Graham is much more of an expert than I am so hope he can shed some light on the issue.

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Skipped Parts

« on: February 07, 2013, 07:20:33 AM »

Hi Wilfried,

I appreciate that is not much help in resolving your problem but all 4 fuse cut-outs were executed when I test ran your code here.

Which version of Mach3 are you using ?

Tweakie.

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VB and the development of wizards / Re: Mach3 machine material surface ZERO script

« on: February 07, 2013, 06:39:43 AM »

Hi Andre,

If it is of any help to you this is the button script that I use (second half of page) and how I have implemented it   http://www.cooperman.talktalk.net/files/17.htm

Tweakie.

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VB and the development of wizards / Re: Mach3 machine material surface ZERO script

« on: February 07, 2013, 05:43:19 AM »

Which Mach screen .set are you using ?

Tweakie.