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General Mach Discussion / Re: .stl and 3D relief's.
« on: January 14, 2012, 11:18:49 AM »
Quite right Gerry - If they are not then they aught to be  ;D
Leave it with me, I will convert any non-believers.

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / .stl and 3D relief's.
« on: January 14, 2012, 08:27:07 AM »
Hi Guys,

For those interested in free 3D reliefs, stl files and 3D machining a 'must visit' is the Hungarian website  http://hobbycncart.com/  Their Download section contains the largest selection of free to download relief’s I think I have ever seen in any one place. The site has a support forum, the members are almost all Mach3 users and the quality of the work they produce and show is just excellent. Well worth a visit.

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: 2 Axis and Mach 3
« on: January 14, 2012, 04:14:00 AM »
Hi Whitey,

Yes it will.

I use Mach3 with a laser which is really just 2 axis of operation.

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Getting Disillusioned with Mach3.
« on: January 13, 2012, 08:18:09 AM »
Thanks Art, your assistance is much appreciated.

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Getting Disillusioned with Mach3.
« on: January 13, 2012, 04:35:36 AM »
Hi Ian,
I will get back to you later today in a PM.


Hi Rich,
Wish I was a lathe user, sometimes.  ;D


Hi Art,
Thanks for the response. As you say, I am sure it was non-intentional but the The E1P1 / E1P0 seems to be a buffer type of problem as it will work for a small number of instances (6 or so) then it will freeze for a while then work then freeze and so on. When it does work it is just such an excellent command for fast switching it would wonderful to get it back again.
The existing Impact/Laser plugin which uses the digital trigger output is not affected by this issue.


Hi Hood,
I must admit to having not tried the very latest SS version software. Thank you for the information.
The Mach derived M10 / M11 suffers similar problems to the E1P1 / E1P0 and will freeze during a long repetitive sequence but the new SS derived commands may behave very differently.
Unfortunately, nothing is ever simple as my SS installation is currently on a milling machine and is not plug for plug compatible with the laser but when I can I will transfer it and see.


Hi Gerry,
You are quite right and it is a bit ironic really because the response has really exceeded my expectations.


Thanks to you all for your assistance,

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Getting Disillusioned with Mach3.
« on: January 12, 2012, 01:19:07 PM »
Thanks Guys, you are all very kind.

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Getting Disillusioned with Mach3.
« on: January 12, 2012, 09:34:04 AM »
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I'd be happy to stick it on the yahoo group for you right now if you like - let me know.

Most grateful if you would Ian I haven't even found the support email for Brian as yet.  ;D

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Getting Disillusioned with Mach3.
« on: January 12, 2012, 09:10:55 AM »
Hi Scott and Hi Gerry,

Thanks for your support. An additional plugin would not help as part of my problem relates to the use of the Impact / Laser plugin operation and I cannot use two plugin’s at the same time. I am not a member of the Yahoo group so cannot post there but I will send a copy to Brian if you think it would help.

It is my own fault by upgrading to later versions of Mach as they were released and I have tried going back to earlier versions but then other things that I have since added don’t work correctly (C++ stuff for example) and it has all become quite a pain.

I just want E1P0/E1P1 back working even if I am the only person  in the world (at the moment) that wants to use it  ;D ;D

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Getting Disillusioned with Mach3.
« on: January 12, 2012, 08:16:05 AM »
Hi Guys,

After all these years as an extremely satisfied (and I mean ‘really satisfied’) user I am starting to get disillusioned with Mach3 (and the speculative, guesswork, statements that version 4 will fix all the problems really does not help).

Mach was just fine ‘yesterday’ but we, as well as our machines, all move on – more complexity, more sophistication, more function, faster operation etc etc and in my case also more laser.
It appears to me that recent revisions have catered for those that shout the loudest and have not really been for the good of all. The changes that have occurred to the way CB is treated was bit of a shock at first but the addition of “While IsMoving() … Wend” between every CB statement now seems to prevent tool breakage on the ‘auto tool zero’ routine at least.

My main gripe, at the moment, is with M11P1/M10P1and the E1P0/E1P1 commands which would switch an output coincident with axis movement in more or less exactly the same way as the Z Axis can move during any X and Y Axis movements when included on the same line of GCode. Now they just don’t work !! Why ??

Believe it or not, laser usage is going to grow in popularity and if Mach keeps moving backwards by ignoring the, perhaps unique, requirements of laser users it will get left behind in this important area of CNC. I get more than a dozen emails a week about using a laser with a CNC machine and many relating to using Mach3 with a laser and whilst I am learning fast I am still far from being an expert (perhaps I never will get there).

The LPT Parallel Port is dying in its availability so I have tried the Smooth Stepper controller and Mach (without benefit as far as laser is concerned) and am now looking toward external motion controllers which use other software (a sad day for me).

My requirements, as a laser user, are pretty basic – I just need to switch an output on when an axis moves and switch an output off when an axis stops – without any delay. Is this too much to ask ??  The E1P0/E1P1 commands that Art included (for laser use) used to do exactly this so why does it no longer work ??. Why has it been changed ??. Will it be fixed ??.

Questions that will never be resolved, or will they ??

Tweakie.

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Thanks Russ,

For the full story of Lena this thread may be of interest. http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~chuck/lennapg/

Tweakie.

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