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

« on: March 10, 2011, 10:40:48 AM »

Not perfect but an interesting exercise nonetheless.
This may have been a little over ambitious, it certainly took a while fitting in all the little parts (which I carefully kept in order) but it did prove to me that the Mach Engraving/Laser plugin and LazyCam can, together, produce reasonably acceptable results.
I have no doubts that it would have been easier and perhaps quicker to use VCP and perhaps the results may have been a little better but I just had to try using the software which already comes with Mach3 at no additional cost.
I think I may have had my fill of inlays.  

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach3 manual says there is a DXF import feature but?????

« on: March 10, 2011, 10:15:34 AM »

Obviously the manual is not up to date with the latest version of Mach.
The direct .dfx import was removed from the menu long ago in favour of LazyCam which does the same job only better and with more options. I think that it was then envisaged that LazyCam would continue to be developed though.

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: X Y problem

« on: March 10, 2011, 04:40:38 AM »

Ray,

You may also try reducing the feedrate a little as well.

(I cut a lot of sign vinyl and if the feedrate is set too high I get rounded corners too  )

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: CAM recommendation, other than CamBam

« on: March 10, 2011, 04:14:31 AM »

The VCP textures are nice and extremely easy to set-up but nowhere as deep as the earlier picture.

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: X Y problem

« on: March 10, 2011, 04:02:38 AM »

Ray,

If you change from CV to Exact Stop Mode that should do it but it slows the job down somewhat. Increasing axis acceleration would not be a bad idea if the machine can take it without problems.

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: How to see DRO A-axis on mach screen ?

« on: March 10, 2011, 03:24:58 AM »

There is a 6 axis screen .set  which may be suitable for your needs under the downloads section http://www.machsupport.com/screens.php

Failing that, you could design / build your own screen .set - the tools are available here, it is not too difficult. 

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: How to see DRO A-axis on mach screen ?

« on: March 10, 2011, 03:09:20 AM »

Don't know if this helps but the A Axis DRO is shown as Axis 4 on my screen.

Tweakie.

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G-Code, CAD, and CAM discussions / Re: G02 and G03 problems building handwheel-First post

« on: March 10, 2011, 02:44:51 AM »

Hi and welcome to the forum.

Sounds like the 'crop circles' problem again and yes you are right it is the 'I','J'.

Under 'config' - 'general logic config' change the IJ Mode setting.
It also pays to insert a G91.1 at the beginning of your GCode.

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Problem Upgrading

« on: March 10, 2011, 01:52:08 AM »

The only other thing I can think of is that by installing on a different drive (unless you are using a dual OS) part of the necessary registry data (created by the install) has been filed under the wrong drive letter (E or C).
Perhaps the best solution is back up your config (.xml) and screen (.set) plus anything else that is important, just in case, then install the latest version over the top of your existing version. This way Mach and the OS will place all the data under the one drive letter and the registry will then be correct.

Tweakie.

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

« on: March 09, 2011, 01:29:13 PM »

Nice job Sandcrab, really neat.

Jeff - Video's and info are on the TexasMicro site http://www.texasmicrocircuits.com/

Tweakie.