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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.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Run From Here problem.

« on: March 26, 2012, 07:31:06 AM »

Thanks Hood, I think that is the best way, that's what I will do in the future, thank you for your advice.

My 'work around' was to delete the first 216,354 lines (minus the header code) it had no choice but to continue from where it left off then. 

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Run From Here problem.

« on: March 26, 2012, 03:35:05 AM »

I have used 'Run From Here' before with Mach R3.034.056 without problems but not with such a long program as this one.

I stopped the machine last night - I used Feedhold at the end of this line then Stop then Goto Zero so the machine was zeroed for the re-start. This morning, I selected line number 216354 then 'Run From Here' - Mach only advances to line 147254 then triggers Reset without any message in the Status Bar. If I was to restart at this point in the code the Z depth should be -1.113 but the ‘Run From Here’ resets it to -1.4384 (too deep for that line).

Any ideas folks ??

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: search for an old topic

« on: March 23, 2012, 04:06:25 AM »

Hi Fred,

He only made one post, on March 8th 2008 and the topic is here http://www.machsupport.com/forum/index.php/topic,6151.msg40470.html#msg40470

(Just enter whatever you are searching for into the search box on the main page).

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: mach3 loses contact

« on: March 22, 2012, 05:44:54 AM »

Hi Mark,

Bit of a mystery then.
Perhaps checking your voltages at the PSU and controller etc. may be the first step also checking the tightness of all the wire connections may reveal something ??

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: mach3 loses contact

« on: March 22, 2012, 04:13:24 AM »

Hi Mark,

Have you started using a different PC or made any other hardware changes ??

Tweakie.

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

« on: March 21, 2012, 02:50:01 AM »

Hi Jeff,

Excellent solution for laser control and excellent results you are achieving 

I must admit that I have never tried  PhotoVCarve - perhaps I should.

Tweakie.