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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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Mach4 General 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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Mach4 General 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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Mach4 General 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.

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

« on: February 11, 2014, 02:55:41 AM »

No worries Frank, everybody knows that I am whacky. 

Pleased that you got it sorted.

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: New User

« on: February 10, 2014, 12:40:57 PM »

Im running 32bit, so I guess I need to register my software to try and get going.

Perhaps read Reply #1 ?

Tweakie.

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

« on: February 10, 2014, 03:02:06 AM »

In Config / General Config  change your IJ Mode to Inc that will get rid of the crop circles. 

In this instance, In your GCode define that the arcs have been created in Incremental Mode (as opposed to Absolute Mode) with G91.1 at the start of the code.

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: New User

« on: February 10, 2014, 02:48:24 AM »

First, does Mach3 have to be registered to have it work?

No. The demo version will get you up and running.

Follow the Mach3 setup details here http://www.probotix.com/downloads/mach3_config_screenshots.gif

Tweakie.

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Show"N"Tell ( What you have made with your CNC machine.) / Re: An operating panel for MACH3

« on: February 08, 2014, 06:09:15 AM »

Absolutely excellent work Bo - you have obviously put a lot of time and effort into into what is to become a really useful addition to your machine. My congratulations.

Tweakie.