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General Mach Discussion / Re: Off the shelf servo controller for Mach3

« on: July 27, 2010, 04:17:36 AM »

If you feel that you really can't continue with the IMService setup then I would suggest replacing your servo's with steppers (these 'low cost' servo's may be the whole cause of your problems) and the drive system with Gecko's. http://www.geckodrive.com/
Just my personal opinion. 

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Z Zero touch plate, and Sound Logic board questions?

« on: July 27, 2010, 02:32:27 AM »

Hi Upthecreek,

Welcome to the forum - lots of nice and pretty clever people here only too willing to help.

Here is a link to what I did and the way I did it if that is any help to you  http://www.cooperman.talktalk.net/files/17.htm
The thing about Mach is there is always more than one way to do everything and this may not be the best way but it works for me. (I use metric units which you may want to convert to imperial).

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach3 for embroidery machine

« on: July 27, 2010, 01:52:13 AM »

Khalid,

You are quite right, the link is in post #388 but the paging system is dynamic and now this post is appearing on page 4 on my system. 

Thanks for your help.

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach3 for embroidery machine

« on: July 26, 2010, 01:23:12 PM »

Thanks Jeff. 

Khalid, please disregard my last post - thanks to Jeff the link is found.

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach3 for embroidery machine

« on: July 26, 2010, 12:53:38 PM »

Khalid,

Like Jeff - I can't find the download link to your software either. It is not on the page you have given http://www.cnczone.com/forums/showthread.php?t=57404&page=33

Is it on your website ?.

Tweakie.

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Show"N"Tell ( Your Machines) / Re: My CNC pressbrake build

« on: July 26, 2010, 07:52:03 AM »

Hi Bigtoy,

Have you finished and painted it yet ?
How does it perform, as well as expected or better ?

So many questions, please let us know the latest and perhaps some more pics.

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: How did he / How do I do this?

« on: July 26, 2010, 07:06:56 AM »

Hood,

It is perhaps not a good idea to cut the air before the drill is fully retracted, what do you think ?

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: How did he / How do I do this?

« on: July 26, 2010, 04:42:27 AM »

To me it looks like its just a physical switch that is operated as the Z goes below a certain height and that switch operates  a solenoid for the air.

I agree with Hood - this is probably the easiest and best way to do it.

(I think the video shows that the air is cut at the start of the drill retract operation though).

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: z axis driven pump: pressure regulation /logic input question

« on: July 26, 2010, 04:33:59 AM »

Rich,

I made the assumption that your plotter Z axis is just 'pen up' / 'pen down' and operates the pump from one of these two conditions - is this the case ?

Tweakie.

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VB and the development of wizards / Re: M98 and M99 VBScript

« on: July 26, 2010, 02:33:38 AM »

To create in this folder two files with names M98.m1s and M99.m1s and to fill their contained by the necessary scripts. To call commands as usually from g-code M98 and M99.

This is not a very good idea - M98 & M99 are reserved GCode commands and are not user configurable without the risk of locking/crashing the application if there is a conflict.

Tweakie.