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General Mach Discussion / Re: mach3 turn threading issue

« on: September 18, 2019, 07:51:11 AM »

As Rich has said you need to ask any questions you have regarding threading on the CNC Drive forum http://forum.cncdrive.com/viewforum.php?f=22

Tweakie.

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SmoothStepper USB / Re: Breakout board choices with smooth stepper

« on: September 17, 2019, 03:43:40 AM »

Hi Mark,

My advice would be to totally ignore the cheap Chinese motion controllers - they have issues and no customer support (plenty tales of woe posted here on the forum).

There are a number of good quality American or EU manufactured motion controllers that do provide good customer support and that is the way to go.

I have a number of different machines and applications so I currently use 5 different motion controller - they each have their own merits.

The Warp9 ESS has plenty of documentation and excellent customer support. You may like to check out their recommendations for breakout boards https://www.warp9td.com/index.php/bob-vendors
or their forum
https://www.warp9td.com/index.php/kunena/recent

Tweakie.

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G-Code, CAD, and CAM discussions / Re: Backing up Mach3 settings

« on: September 17, 2019, 02:45:57 AM »

Your Mach3 settings are contained in <your profile> .xml file. If you have any special screen features then they are saved in you screen .set file (typically 1024.set). If you have any special Brains or Macro's then they are saved in their respective folders. Your Mach3 license is saved as Mach1Lic.dat. All the above are in the Mach3 folder.

The safe bet is to make a secure backup of the complete Mach3 folder then, if necessary, copy the relevant files / folders to your new installation.

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Go To Zero behaviour

« on: September 07, 2019, 01:21:59 AM »

Check you Safe Z setting (Config / Safe Z).

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Attention: E stop and limit issues

« on: September 07, 2019, 01:18:57 AM »

Hi John,

You need to select a unique name for your .xml file to be able to post it here (forum quirk).

If you post your .xml I will try running it here but I suspect you may have either a bad switch on the Y or be suffering from an electrical noise problem (broken or poor contact earth wire, bad strip light, spindle motor brushes ?, etc, etc.).

Tweakie.

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G-Code, CAD, and CAM discussions / MOVED: Help! G41 doesn't work for multiple offsets!

« on: September 06, 2019, 01:02:31 AM »

This topic has been moved to General Mach Discussion.

https://www.machsupport.com/forum/index.php?topic=41733.0

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Newfangled Solutions Mach3 Wizards / Re: How do you make the Newfangled Addons in mach3 with what software

« on: September 05, 2019, 01:08:45 AM »

Within Mach3 select Wizards / Pick Wizard / Newfangled then follow the on-screen instructions. A separate license is needed to use the generated Gcode.

Tweakie.

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Tangent Corner / Re: It's a Dog thing.

« on: September 05, 2019, 12:56:52 AM »

Good one Russ 

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Tangent Corner / Re: It's a Dog thing.

« on: September 04, 2019, 07:00:47 AM »

All that digging and I still didn't get the mouse !

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General Mach Discussion / Re: mach3 with 5 axis machining problem

« on: September 04, 2019, 06:00:22 AM »

You will ned to experiment to find the best settings but the solution is to reduce the Velocity setting and increase the Acceleration setting in Motor Tuning for each of the X and Y axes saving the changes.

Tweakie.