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Show"N"Tell ( Your Machines) / Re: Focusing an IR laser diode

« on: December 13, 2013, 11:27:15 AM »

Hi Jay,

I am pleased you got it sorted.

Tweakie.

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Show"N"Tell ( What you have made with your CNC machine.) / Re: Not going till the end of line

« on: December 11, 2013, 07:11:47 AM »

Viz,

Try running the code in Exact Stop motion mode (config / general config).

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Vector Graphics

« on: December 09, 2013, 06:57:43 AM »

For simple stuff LazyCam (free with Mach3) can work quite well.

Tweakie.

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Spanish / Re: Problema con "Auto Tool Zero"

« on: December 09, 2013, 05:10:59 AM »

Si se trata de cualquier ayuda para usted el guión que estoy usando es aquí http://www.cooperman.talktalk.net/files/17.htm

Tweakie.

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Show"N"Tell ( Your Machines) / Re: Focusing an IR laser diode

« on: December 09, 2013, 01:47:54 AM »

When I removed the lens, I could see the diode was off center, almost against the edge of the housing.  I believe that is why I can't focus it properly.

Looks like a new unit is required then. 

Tweakie.

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Mach3 under Vista / Re: Mach 3 and win 7 crash and blue screen

« on: December 08, 2013, 11:18:25 AM »

Hi Guys,

Welcome to the forum.

Sounds to me as though your PC is not up to the task.
Perhaps installing WinXP as the operating system may improve the situation.

Tweakie.

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Show"N"Tell ( Your Machines) / Re: Focusing an IR laser diode

« on: December 08, 2013, 05:21:19 AM »

Perhaps the easiest solution is to create a GCode program that just fires a single, fast, dot.

Use a piece of wood as the work, fire the ‘dot’ - when complete observe the size on the dot on the surface of the wood. Adjust the focus and fire another dot and repeat until you can obtain the smallest sized dot on the surface of the wood.

Now switch the wood for a piece of black anodized aluminium and repeat the process, slightly adjusting the focus (as necessary) until you can produce the smallest possible size of dot.

Tweakie.

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

« on: December 06, 2013, 02:27:56 AM »

Nice work Adrian.
Jason's software certainly does produce some nice effects.
 
Something else you may like to try (different effect) is DotG http://dotg.weebly.com/download.html

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach3 and Vcarve6 CNC3040

« on: December 03, 2013, 03:43:09 AM »

From your video it appears that your gantry is not parallel with your table. The following diagram may help.

Tweakie.

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Show"N"Tell ( What you have made with your CNC machine.) / Re: breakout+driver

« on: December 03, 2013, 02:22:05 AM »

Did they design the Hadron collider to accept a pod you could ride in? Seems a terrible waste if they didn't.

That would be some ride Brett 

Tweakie.