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Show"N"Tell ( Your Machines) / Re: The Laser Project.

« on: June 07, 2011, 11:07:42 AM »

Thanks Russ, you are of course quite right, but he did finally meet a fitting end. 

Tweakie.

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Show"N"Tell ( Your Machines) / Re: The Laser Project.

« on: June 07, 2011, 07:17:26 AM »

I finally got around to making another "Che" coaster and more or less got the cut-out dimensions right this time. The problem is that, for the same power settings and feedrates, different types or wood veneers laser cut with different kerf widths. Still, I am quite pleased with the result - just need to make a couple more, with different images for the set 

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: y axis stalled? during cutting - please help

« on: June 07, 2011, 05:54:16 AM »

Thys,

I started using a bit of scrap plywood as the spoil board but you have to make sure of the final pass depth so that the cutter doesn't go down into the glue layer.

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: y axis stalled? during cutting - please help

« on: June 07, 2011, 05:37:42 AM »

Hi Thys,

This a wild guess but if, on the last pass, you are machining right through into a spoil board which is something like MDF then the tool tip (which is now in a pocket) can get clogged with the dust and may require extra torque to cut properly and thus stall the axis.

As I say, just a guess.

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Help Needed on Debounce

« on: June 06, 2011, 08:04:24 AM »

Pleased you have it sorted Bob.

Happy machining 

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Uncheck EStop?

« on: June 06, 2011, 07:29:06 AM »

Rosco,

I expect you have already read it but there is more related info here;  http://www.machsupport.com/forum/index.php/topic,18626.0.html

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Run Mach in full screen

« on: June 06, 2011, 07:23:32 AM »

Very neat.

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Elapsed Time output stopping during run

« on: June 05, 2011, 04:24:00 AM »

I would be interested in hearing the result Bill.

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Program hanging

« on: June 04, 2011, 01:23:02 PM »

Perhaps I should start gathering all that odd info up and publish it somewhere???

Brilliant idea Terry.

I doubt the VB problems will ever be solved because once I get something to run nicely when I update to the next version of Mach everything changes and it's back to the drawing board.  My main problem is with the little used commands (I suspect that it's only me that ever used them) such as E1P0/E1P1 etc - they used to work so well.

Sorry rrc1962 I am rambling.

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Program hanging

« on: June 04, 2011, 12:32:27 PM »

Thanks Terry - sometimes I live in a totally different world 

Tweakie.