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General Mach Discussion / Re: Lost Steps

« on: July 04, 2011, 02:14:07 AM »

Stefan,

Returning to the surfboard - when you move from one side of the board to the other (with Z raised clear of the work) does the Z axis 'tick' steps during this crossover move ?

Tweakie.

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G-Code, CAD, and CAM discussions / Re: Autodesk 123D - Free 3D Design Software

« on: July 03, 2011, 11:56:42 AM »

Hi Sam,

Glad you are finding it interesting.
Others on the Phlatforum are exporting .stl or .dxf to convert to the GCode but they are sounding pretty pleased with their results.

Tweakie.

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

« on: July 03, 2011, 11:07:51 AM »

Such a wonderful job you have made of this project Steve I hope you have many takers for the plans. (shame you can't sell the ability as well as the plans).

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach3 and CAM

« on: July 03, 2011, 08:32:17 AM »

Croy,

The guys on the Phlatforum http://www.phlatforum.com/ use sketchup almost exclusively to produce GCode with their own Plugins etc but there are many easier and more accurate CAD/CAM solutions available. I know nothing about lathes so cannot offer any advice on the choice but there are many members of this forum who are lathe experts and they will know.

Tweakie.

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

« on: July 03, 2011, 05:40:18 AM »

Another small update to the Impact / Laser Engraving plugin. Not necessary really but I have added a routine to round the Size of the X and Y pixel in steps to just 4 decimal places to prevent the display overflow and I have also made a small change to the formulae so the steps are calculated exactly.
These changes have no effect on the operation of the plugin, they are just cosmetic and because I cannot update the previously posted version I have put the latest version here;   http://tweakie.byethost10.com/Engraving.zip

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: usb interface

« on: July 02, 2011, 12:18:12 PM »

Hi Tony,

I only have experience of one USB device and that is the Smooth Stepper.
For what I need it is brilliant, has good support and active forum discussions, what more could I need ?

Tweakie.

nb. Don't know anything about the mill.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Touch probe to Point Cloud

« on: July 01, 2011, 11:15:26 AM »

 

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Touch probe to Point Cloud

« on: July 01, 2011, 08:38:35 AM »

You are, of course, absolutely right Terry but if you want to travel "coast to coast" a bicycle is perhaps not the best form of transport. 

Tweakie.

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G-Code, CAD, and CAM discussions / Re: Mach3 post for Mastercam. This post enables use of the Mach3 Mill tool table.

« on: June 30, 2011, 02:11:23 AM »

Rich05,

Just tried - left click to see manuals then double click to save - works OK for me.

Tweakie.


nb. a Big thanks to LowryIndustries for making this information available - Thank you.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Can't get rid of 4th axis backlash! Do you recognise this table?

« on: June 29, 2011, 11:09:47 AM »

The bigger question for me: Why the heck did MaxNC ship this thing to me in such a broken state? Surely they knew this would never work

Perhaps because they knew they were going on an extended fishing trip.

Some of the flexi-couplers, which have a plastic insert, may not compress to the same degree but still allow slight misalignment

Tweakie.