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General Mach Discussion / Re: Thinking of a new wrapper function for MAch3.

« on: December 17, 2012, 07:45:44 AM »

Hi Terry,

I changed the rotary Vel. & Acc. within the button to get my feed-rates equal on X & A(Y) and it's perfect.

My congratulations. 

(I'm on holiday now until the new year so will have plenty of time to play and do some more testing with this excellent idea of yours).

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Thinking of a new wrapper function for MAch3.

« on: December 17, 2012, 04:11:33 AM »

Hi Terry,

It didn’t quite get the steps per unit right (should be a rectangle) but I could easily adjust that.

As you suspected - the main snag appears to be with the rapids (G0) as the Y axis Vel. & Acc. are applied to the rotary (A) axis and the A axis Vel. & Acc. are applied to the Y axis. No problem if the rotary will run as fast as the Y axis but unfortunately mine is a bit slower. Again that is easily adjusted but it would be nice if the Wiz. did it automatically.

Great work my friend.

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Thinking of a new wrapper function for MAch3.

« on: December 17, 2012, 02:06:50 AM »

Hi Terry,

Looks good to me - I will try it out later today and report back. 

Just one point - the wiz transfers the Port and Pin assignments correctly but not the Low Active state. 

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Thinking of a new wrapper function for MAch3.

« on: December 16, 2012, 02:41:24 AM »

Hi Terry,

I think the wizard approach would be the easiest for the inexperienced to understand and use so may appeal to a greater cross section of Mach3 users (myself included).

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Thinking of a new wrapper function for MAch3.

« on: December 15, 2012, 03:52:30 AM »

Hi Terry,

I think it is a great idea and look forward to following your progress. 

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Table Size Limits

« on: December 13, 2012, 10:47:41 AM »

Hi RG,

No its' not a dumb question at all.

It is probably better that you get the information first hand by downloading the manual http://www.machsupport.com/docs/Mach3Mill_Install_Config.pdf
then checking the Limits section 5.6...

You will be an expert in no time at all 

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Table Size Limits

« on: December 13, 2012, 10:13:13 AM »

Hi RG,

Within Mach3 - Config / Homing, Soft Limits

Tweakie.

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Tangent Corner / Re: USB pendant.

« on: December 13, 2012, 05:10:10 AM »

Thanks for the information Dave.

Tweakie.

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Tangent Corner / USB pendant.

« on: December 13, 2012, 03:11:30 AM »

Has anyone tried one of these pendants yet ??

http://cncpendant.ru/en/shuttlerustm32.html

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Video issue

« on: December 12, 2012, 07:26:56 AM »

Hi Simon,

I don't know if it's any help but I had exactly the same problem (VideoOCX (VIDEO) - Driver can't be connected) when I first started using the on-screen video window with a webcam.
I tried 3 different makes of 'plug and play' webcam until I found one that worked correctly.
My conclusion was that the problem was related to the USB interface or perhaps it's BIOS settings.

May I suggest that you try Klause's video window http://www.kd-dietz.com/klausphp/pages/ger/plugins/webcam/description/wcam_description.html which perhaps offers a better camera selection / recognition procedure to see if that works with your camera.

Tweakie.