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Show"N"Tell ( Your Machines) / Re: Down 'n Dirty Laser Locator

« on: September 17, 2009, 09:43:38 AM »

Hey Sam, you missed out all the important steps like:-

1a Open beer can.
2a Drink beer.
3a Get another can.
etc. etc.   

Nice innovation though.

Tweakie.

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

« on: September 16, 2009, 08:26:18 AM »

The Newport mirror mountings arrived from the USA today and beautifully made they are.
Well that's my very small contribution to the US economy until I have saved up some more penny's.

Tweakie

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General Mach Discussion / Re: FeedRate OverRidden

« on: September 15, 2009, 11:44:46 AM »

Hi Nick,

I changed all the 'F0.40' feedrate commands using 'EditCNC' to 'F400' and your .tap file runs OK.

Tweakie.

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Share Your GCode / Re: Free DXF file art disk download

« on: September 15, 2009, 04:42:49 AM »

Thank you Jason, I look forward to cutting some of those.

Tweakie.

btw. Nice website.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Run away jogging

« on: September 15, 2009, 02:33:08 AM »

Glad you found the answer Bob and thanks for posting the solution.

Tweakie.

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

« on: September 15, 2009, 02:27:19 AM »

As always, a nice job Sam.

You could, of course, go the whole hog and put poker dots on the other 4 sides. Now that would make it  look pretty. 

Tweakie.

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

« on: September 14, 2009, 07:19:47 AM »

Very nice Sam.

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Robot Controller?

« on: September 14, 2009, 03:16:01 AM »

Yes, please keep us up to date on your progress Pop. Very interested in this.

Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Tool probe strange behavior.

« on: September 14, 2009, 03:12:27 AM »

Hi Sam,

Sorry that the version I am using still causes the same problem. Looks like you have a bit more experimentation to do before you find the solution.

Tweakie.

btw. At your suggestion I went and had a beer (or two) anyway. 

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Robot Controller?

« on: September 12, 2009, 09:39:46 AM »

Not good news Pop.

Although Mach supports Rotational interpolation it was primarily designed for linear movement control so I think you will be struggling with this project.
Once you have stepper control of the arm the Mach 'Teach wizard' could be used to compile the GCode to follow the moves that you have made manually but none of the (realistically priced) software I have encountered so far will compile code for an arm.
Good luck with your project.

Tweakie.