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Show"N"Tell ( What you have made with your CNC machine.) / Re: Impact Engraving.

« on: March 16, 2012, 02:53:58 AM »

Hi Dan,

For the purposes of the frequency calculation, I ignored the axis movement time and divided the number of dots by the total time taken.
I have already been asked to make a short video – I will post the link when it is done then the sound can be heard.

Tweakie.

btw. Nice job you are doing on that milling machine – very professional.

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Show"N"Tell ( What you have made with your CNC machine.) / Re: Impact Engraving.

« on: March 15, 2012, 12:41:09 PM »

This was just a test run but I am really quite excited by the results.
The DotG generated code consists of 467,517 lines and with 4 lines of code to produce each dot, the image consists of 116,879 dots which took just 1.5 hours to complete. With a stroke length of 1mm the little electromagnet has now shown that it is capable of producing at least 21.644 dots per second (axis movement time has been ignored in the calculations), which is about double my previously achieved speed.
Instead of sounding like an ASR33 Teletype my CNC now sounds like a Gatling Gun and although not quite as quick as the Roland Metaza it is getting closer.

Tweakie.

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*****VIDEOS***** / Re: 3D-ONE a new 3D printer

« on: March 15, 2012, 03:55:15 AM »

Hi Andrea,

Excellent work my friend - beautiful machine and beautiful end products - my complements.

Tweakie.

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Tangent Corner / Re: MY NEW MAN CAVE!

« on: March 11, 2012, 01:31:23 PM »

WOW - very nice indeed - looks like a toy shop in there 

Tweakie.

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FAQs / Re: Mach 3 not recognizing g commands correctly

« on: March 11, 2012, 01:22:25 PM »

Hi gtonini,

How does it behave when jogging from the keyboard - do all the axis move in both directions OK ??

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: switch mode or linear?

« on: March 11, 2012, 01:18:36 PM »

Hi Tony,

You would need to check with the makers of the switch mode power supply to be certain but it is my understanding that it is not recommended to do this.

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: UIRobot UIM290405A Mach3 Breakout Board + Spindle Control

« on: March 11, 2012, 05:53:53 AM »

Hi Memran,

As you don't seem to be getting any response on this one try contacting Zapp directly.
I had a question (regarding the holding pulse frequency for one of their stepper drivers) last week, contacted them via their website query and received an email answer same day.

Tweakie.

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FAQs / Re: Can Mach3 Do PCB Drilling using an NC file

« on: March 10, 2012, 05:24:54 AM »

Thanks Ray,

I look forward to seeing your results.

Tweakie.

A sample of the quick and easy method of 'isolation routing' 

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Show"N"Tell ( Your Machines) / Re: CNC Plasma Table. 27"X62"cutting area.

« on: March 10, 2012, 02:52:15 AM »

Nice work Bazaro.

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach3 and Cutting a Circle

« on: March 10, 2012, 01:45:38 AM »

I keep get error messages in the circle wizard. No matter what I change I get the Vb error or radius from end of arc differs from radius on line 5
I need a tutorial on these wizards.
Thanks

The error issue is addressed here http://www.machsupport.com/forum/index.php/topic,21058.msg146453.html#msg146453

Tweakie.