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General Mach Discussion / Re: Timer not counting

« on: April 01, 2012, 01:56:31 AM »

Looks like a swap with the wife will be the best solution (a swap of the wife would have even more benefits, but not on the cards at the moment!  )

 

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Timer not counting

« on: March 31, 2012, 02:30:39 AM »

Hi Daniel,

You could try the WinXP optimization procedure (pretty much the same as 2k) linked on this page http://www.machsupport.com/downloads.php
It may save you having to steal the boss's notebook. 

Tweakie.

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

« on: March 30, 2012, 08:06:41 AM »

Hi Russ,

Sorry, I use the Google Chrome browser which incorporates Google Translate and although it makes a pretty poor job with Hungarian I just get by (well almost). Incidentally, there is a lot of useful stuff on their main website http://hobbycncart.com/ and I am doing my best to populate the English speaking section.

There is not yet any help file for F-Engrave but this is a US product and most, if not all of the functions are described in the video's on this page http://home.comcast.net/~sskroch/Fengrave/fengrave.html  

The .dxf import function will enable routing of designs but it does not clear all the areas of the relief down to base level so a little hand finishing may be necessary to make a perfect job. It does, however, work very well and for a free software, I am not complaining. 

Tweakie.

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

« on: March 30, 2012, 04:25:03 AM »

Hi Guys,

I must admit that I have never tried 'relief routing' before but seeing Russ's excellent work I just had to give it a try.

This is 270mm x 50mm and made from Old English Oak (using GCode produced with the free program 'F-Engrave' mentioned earlier). The tool path geometry is just excellent and the program is truly a credit to it's author.

Tweakie.

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

« on: March 28, 2012, 01:47:48 AM »

Hi Russ,

Looks like you are doing just fine without a help file 

Scott has said that F-Engrave is not yet perfect and I understand that the help file is still work in progress.

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Run From Here problem.

« on: March 27, 2012, 11:23:29 AM »

Thanks for looking Terry.

Tweakie.

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

« on: March 27, 2012, 08:31:49 AM »

My pleasure Rich & Russ.

Incidentally it supports all the single line stick fonts as well as the Windows .ttf fonts (they have to be copied to the F - Engrave fonts folder).

Tweakie.

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

« on: March 27, 2012, 06:00:37 AM »

Thanks to Zasti for the ‘heads-up’ on this one http://hobbycncart.com/forum/30-35-6808-16-1332785979 - a new, free, engraving program which supports ‘V Carving’ http://home.comcast.net/~sskroch/Fengrave/fengrave.html

The program works just fine with WinXP and the GCode produced is excellent using Mach3.
This is just a test sample, to try it out, which, I think, shows that it can produce results to match the commercial VCarve programs.

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Run From Here problem.

« on: March 27, 2012, 02:10:57 AM »

Hi Terry,

File attached - I paused at the +Z move in line 216,354 and the watchog was disabled.

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Run From Here problem.

« on: March 26, 2012, 01:08:44 PM »

Hi Hood,

I didn't try all the combinations but 'Run From Here' does not work correctly with file sizes above 150,000 lines (or thereabouts).

I usually run the long (.stl to GCode) files in one go but this one took longer than estimated - still something learned for me - the job was salvaged and completed OK in the end.

Thanks for your help.

Tweakie.