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General Mach Discussion / Re: Why is there no effort for the true closed loop control on the mach3 level

« on: January 13, 2011, 05:08:50 AM »

Some have been able to use it successfully in production environments, but it is still a "hobby" control.

A bit more than 'hobby' today. One can do serious production with it IF you know how.

Cheers

I second this, in fact there are a great number of people using Mach3, in it's present form, for serious production.

Providing a CNC system is designed and built reasonably well there really is no need for closed loop operation - yes it would be nice but accurate, reliable and repeatable work can be achieved without closed loop.

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Newby needs advice

« on: January 13, 2011, 04:54:22 AM »

Mikka,

I have seen adverts on eBay for spring loaded, rotary engraving tools (to fit most engraving machines) that are designed for engraving on curved surfaces but they do have limitations to character height / surface curvature etc. A rotary axis is another possibility, quite easy to set up within Mach but the mechanical aspects of fitting one to the machine (length of barrel etc.) may need some thought.

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach 3 and CorelDRAW.

« on: January 13, 2011, 04:43:27 AM »

Kerry,

Do you use the standard DXF Tool or the Professional version ?

I am thinking that at $190 the professional version does seem a little steep. 

Tweakie.

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Mach SDK plugin questions and answers. / Re: Impact engraving plugin

« on: January 13, 2011, 04:20:55 AM »

Stitos,

Having tried with a portable oscilloscope, it is obvious that a much more fancy digital, recording piece of equipment will be necessary here.
All I have been able to confirm, so far, is that the pulse width is indeed 40uS and the Pulse Repetition Frequency at white is 0% increasing with shade to approx 90% at black but I have been unable to accurately measure the gap (pause) between the edges (join) of each pixel in the image but this does vary with feedrate.
Not much help really but I will try with another scope when time permits.

Tweakie.

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Mach SDK plugin questions and answers. / Re: Impact engraving plugin

« on: January 13, 2011, 04:18:53 AM »

Ntlaser,

Looking forward to seeing the pictures of your new machine.

Tweakie.

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Mach SDK plugin questions and answers. / Re: Impact engraving plugin

« on: January 11, 2011, 10:04:52 AM »

Ntlaser,

Further to my earlier post - The latest plugin has not yet been posted to the downloads page so after you have installed the posted version download the file 'engraving nov11-2010' from here http://www.machsupport.com/forum/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=16446.0;attach=23238 and copy the 'engraving.dll' file to your Mach3/Plugins folder. This will replace the previous version and give you the latest one. (not sure if that all makes sense but I have tried my best to describe the process  )

Tweakie.

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Mach SDK plugin questions and answers. / Re: Impact engraving plugin

« on: January 11, 2011, 04:36:47 AM »

Stitos,

As soon as I can I will take some measurements with an oscilloscope and report back.

Tweakie.

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Mach SDK plugin questions and answers. / Re: Impact engraving plugin

« on: January 11, 2011, 03:17:20 AM »

Hello Art how can I load the engrave file?Thanks

Ntlaser,

Downloads section, Plugins, Engraving Trigger plugin, Save the Engraving m3p file, Run the m3p file.
On restart of Mach the plugin will be available.

Tweakie.

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Mach SDK plugin questions and answers. / Re: Impact engraving plugin

« on: January 11, 2011, 03:14:03 AM »

Stitos,

Please accept my apologies but I really do not understand your question - could you perhaps rephrase it please.

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: jogging set up question

« on: January 10, 2011, 08:30:09 AM »

My apologies Grumpy, it was Phil's phone I was referring to. I can just imagine a Tapatalk plugin. 

Tweakie.