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General Mach Discussion / Re: Getting Disillusioned with Mach3.

« on: January 20, 2012, 04:49:44 AM »

Hi Guys,

Well, as Art has said, this topic certainly stirred up some discussion.
Brian has been just brilliant and has now restored these, undocumented, commands M10P1/M11P1 and E1P0/E1P1 and in the latest version he sent me to test they work just perfectly. There is now no noticeable delay with these commands as can be seen from the picture of the test sample I used.
A big thanks to Artsoft, Brian and the Team who responded so rapidly to restoring these commands which (as others have said) only benefit a very small proportion of the total, worldwide, Mach users. These changes will be incorporated into version R3.043.056 as and when.
Obviously I will no longer be looking at alternatives for my machine control but this has perhaps demonstrated, at least to me, just how fickle we (I) can be.   

Tweakie.

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Share Your GCode / Re: anyone have code for a mini cooper logo?

« on: January 20, 2012, 02:17:16 AM »

Wow Jim - they look really nice - good job.

Tweakie.

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Share Your GCode / Re: anyone have code for a mini cooper logo?

« on: January 19, 2012, 12:45:09 PM »

Nice work Jim - I am pleased it is all coming together 

Tweakie.

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

« on: January 19, 2012, 06:49:55 AM »

As a follow on from the first post in this thread....
Nothing is ever simple and something that becomes apparent when we start experimenting with impact printing from GCode files is the phenomena of ‘banding’.  When an image is mathematically processed to create a halftone it must not subsequently be scaled or have the aspect ratio altered in any way otherwise banding may occur. It does not always happen but when it does the result is a spoiled product – the following image was accidentally scaled and the pictures show the result. The, otherwise nicely distributed, dot pattern has formed into groups and suddenly they become noticeable.

Although I keep trying not to make comparisons, because of the entirely different method of operation, the Mach Impact / Laser plugin calculates the halftone dot pattern on the fly so does not suffer from this problem and even pre-prepared halftone images which have been scaled get corrected by the plugin at run-time so everything turns our right in the end.

Tweakie.

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

« on: January 19, 2012, 06:04:43 AM »

Hi Pinky,

Do you still have any pictures of your impact work you could post please ??

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Getting Disillusioned with Mach3.

« on: January 19, 2012, 05:12:59 AM »

Hi Brian and Art,

I have sent emails with attachments of the test results etc.

Tweakie.

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G-Code, CAD, and CAM discussions / Re: Bobcad V21 and V23 post

« on: January 19, 2012, 01:59:42 AM »

That is handy to know - thanks for the info Al.

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach/Integration/Hardware

« on: January 18, 2012, 08:54:15 AM »

Now it is time to model up some parts and enjoy the new setup.

And post a few pictures of the things you make with it perhaps ?? 

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: VB calculation behind button is possible?

« on: January 17, 2012, 10:53:48 AM »

It is my understanding that Mach supports a subset of VB which is Cypress Enable. Not all of the current VB commands are available to be used in Macro's / Button Scripts etc. so it would be best to use the CB reference guide for all your VB expressions http://www.machsupport.com/MachCustomizeWiki/pdfs/VB-Script-Commands.pdf.

Tweakie.

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Tangent Corner / Re: Brit web host streamline.net

« on: January 17, 2012, 05:50:39 AM »

Ian,

Do you have the provider 'TalkTalk' in your part of the country ??

I get free calls 24/7 (not mobiles) to UK and most parts of the world, it's cheaper than BT (<£25/month inc. line rental), I also get free Broadband and free Webspace.

Tweakie.