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General Mach Discussion / Re: RS232

« on: April 08, 2010, 12:12:07 PM »

Hi Hood,

I'm sure you are absolutely right, far safer to load from the current machine's hard drive.

However, a lot of new ideas have come out of someone finding a reliable way of doing something that is perhaps not good practice to do.

My problem here is that I had first said it is not possible to do but after further thought realize that I was perhaps wrong so am trying to squirm my way out of a tight corner.

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: RS232

« on: April 08, 2010, 11:50:28 AM »

Second update.

There is an old saying "ensure brain is engaged before operating mouth" this I can never remember to do so why make one posting when three will do. 

Whilst there is not an inbuilt function within Mach to read files via serial data links it is not, I think an impossible task. In the VB and development of wizards section and also in other sections various contributors have shown that it is possible to open a dialog box and read in files within a macro. It is only another step (large step perhaps) to read the file from another computer on the same network. I don't have the spare time to look into this further but if you are curious enough to do the research you may just find a way to achieve this.

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: RS232

« on: April 08, 2010, 11:03:57 AM »

Update.

As Hood has said you cannot transfer the data straight into Mach. It has to be transferred as a file then loaded into Mach.

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: RS232

« on: April 08, 2010, 11:01:30 AM »

Simple answer is yes you can transfer any data provided both computers are equipped with serial ports and you use a crossover data cable.

However, from experience, I have found it a whole lot easier to use a USB dongle/memory stick to transfer files from one computer to another.

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach 3 putting in offsets? HELP!

« on: April 08, 2010, 07:08:41 AM »

OK. An alternative approach:-

Write the code for your letter 'T' once only and set the Z depth to the maximum you require.
Then use the Mach Wizard 'Multi Pass', setting your incremental depth to create the toolpath for the numerous passes.

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach 3 putting in offsets? HELP!

« on: April 08, 2010, 02:57:09 AM »

It's an interesting shaped toolpath you have created there - Not sure it could ever be made using a 3 Axis machine (because of the undercut) but interesting none the less.

Tweakie.

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Show"N"Tell ( Your Machines) / Re: New Project for the shop.

« on: April 08, 2010, 02:35:02 AM »

Echo, echo, glad to see you back Dave.

Nice Machine. Did you have to modify the energy chain for the Y Axis to get that bend in the opposite direction ?.

Tweakie.

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Third party software and hardware support forums. / Re: Converting Units of Measurement.

« on: April 08, 2010, 02:26:00 AM »

Thanks Sam, I like 100% free. 

My laptop runs Vista so I will add it to the sidebar gizmo's.

Also a big thanks to the Secret Squirrel.

Hey, how's that new mill of yours coming along ?.

Tweakie.

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G-Code, CAD, and CAM discussions / Re: Can anyone help me with this GCode?

« on: April 07, 2010, 01:09:26 PM »

It's not the GCode that is at fault here or it would produce the same results for me.

You are correct in that you need to look at your configuration settings and double check everything.

Tweakie.

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G-Code, CAD, and CAM discussions / Re: Can anyone help me with this GCode?

« on: April 07, 2010, 12:38:00 PM »

Just ran your code and it appears OK (not the most optimized code I have seen however).

At what point does it all go 'pear shaped' and what happens to the tool path ?.

Tweakie.