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General Mach Discussion / Re: screwed up sign

« on: October 04, 2011, 02:27:44 AM »

May be helpful if you post the dxf and GCode for the sign. (The problem could be with your machine or setup).

Many are using VCarve now - it is an excellent product IMO.

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Spindle speed control - serial port

« on: October 03, 2011, 12:25:17 PM »

I just read the instructions.
Texas don’t actually tell you how to set up Mach they just let you download an xml but then say that it will not be configured for your own machine so you should make a note of your original settings (ports and pins, motor tuning etc) then re-enter all your data into the new xml.
Would be much easier if they just described the setting up details but as they say in their instructions this would be too difficult for them to do and take too much time.
They also say they have a small program that will combine two xml’s and make life much easier but this is not yet available.
Very strange organisation this Texas Microcircuits. 

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Spindle speed control - serial port

« on: October 03, 2011, 07:46:30 AM »

I presume you have checked that you have 115V or 240V power going to Texas board and that the fuse F1 is intact (test with multimeter).

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach Dro's as calculator to dro input.

« on: October 03, 2011, 07:16:15 AM »

Hey Rich,

I didn't even know that thread existed. 

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Spindle speed control - serial port

« on: October 03, 2011, 06:38:18 AM »

Perhaps crossed purposes here 

Do the leds on the Texas Micro board operate correctly ??

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Printer Port Problems

« on: October 03, 2011, 06:32:08 AM »

Rupert,

Run 'Driver Test.exe' from the Mach folder - this should ensure the drivers are loaded.

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Spindle speed control - serial port

« on: October 03, 2011, 02:48:56 AM »

Are the LED's on the PCB operating correctly ??  (do they come on and show CW rotation etc when spindle is turned on/off within Mach - M3 / M5).

Also it is important that you are using the licensed version of Mach and not the Demo version.

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Is it possible to run Mach3 from a USB port?

« on: October 03, 2011, 02:36:12 AM »

It sure is Jim but you need to use an external motion card such as the Smooth Stepper  http://warp9td.com/
There are others which do the same job (+/- certain functions).

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Scale involuntarily flipping between negative and positive while running.

« on: October 01, 2011, 07:09:58 AM »

LOL - I reckon your 4 digits of precision is a tad on the conservative side...

Ian

I think it is his Hive mind Ian. 

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Scale involuntarily flipping between negative and positive while running.

« on: September 30, 2011, 11:56:32 AM »

Jasura,

If you could possibly post your .xml  it may help us get to resolving this problem.

Thanks.

Tweakie.