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General Mach Discussion / Re: thank you for your help forum freinds!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

« on: March 05, 2014, 04:11:58 AM »

Great work Nobby but what does it say ?

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Adding UserLED to Change State from M10/M11

« on: March 05, 2014, 04:09:00 AM »

Hi Adam,

I am not absolutely certain because Mach3 is always full of surprises but I don't think you will be able to use the M11/M10 in that way because they have been more or less designated for laser control.

If you use the command M11P1 this will switch ON Output#1 and the command M10P1 will switch OFF Output#1 but both these commands only take effect at the instant of an axis (any axis) movement (ie. they must be followed by an axis movement on the next line in the GCode. The numeral following the P will determine which Output# is switched).

Hope this helps.

Tweakie.

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Show"N"Tell ( What you have made with your CNC machine.) / Re: Laser Diode Engraving

« on: March 05, 2014, 01:57:10 AM »

Excellent work John. 

Tweakie.

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

« on: March 04, 2014, 02:10:51 AM »

Hi Tim,

Welcome to the forum.

It is best if you post your questions as a new topic in the General Mach Discussion section - then it will get more answers.

In Config / General Config - uncheck the Persistent Offsets and Persistent DRO's boxes in Axis DRO Properties and see if this cures your problem. 

Tweakie.

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Show"N"Tell ( What you have made with your CNC machine.) / Re: Combined CNC Engraving Technologies. Spindle + Laser

« on: February 27, 2014, 10:35:57 AM »

Brilliant work Jeff - we always knew it was possible but you are the first to have done it - my congratulations.

Tweakie.

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G-Code, CAD, and CAM discussions / Re: GCODE causes problem.

« on: February 26, 2014, 07:33:31 AM »

 

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Starting and stopping

« on: February 26, 2014, 07:21:19 AM »

I have never had anything like this happen but just as a guess I would suspect that Windows has an agenda and is performing another task and pausing Mach3 execution whilst it's task is completed.

Do you have any other software (other than Mach3) on your computer which may perhaps be running in the background ?

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: in accurate x/y axes

« on: February 25, 2014, 12:12:59 PM »

Hi Ozzey,

Welcome to the forum.

Perhaps if you give a few more details about your controller, setup, etc. it may help in identifying the problem ?

If your step and direction was incorrect it would always be wrong by the same amount each time the GCode was run.

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: spindle control help needed

« on: February 24, 2014, 03:28:32 AM »

Hi Jim,

It is possible that you have a bad installation of Mach3 or a bad .xml file.
Try re-installing Mach3 (perhaps the same version you have been using previously) and see if that cures the problem.

Tweakie.

(n.b. I deleted your other post to keep any other suggestions etc. within the one thread).

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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.