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General Mach Discussion / Re: Drilling holes using Lazy cam

« on: April 26, 2008, 01:12:15 PM »

Not familiar with Corel Draw, used LC a little a while ago.  Can you draw a point where you want to drill?  I think that's what LC needs for drilling.

Monte

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General Mach Discussion / Re: beefing up a G320

« on: April 23, 2008, 09:37:18 PM »

I put the link to the geckodrive yahoo group up for you to ask there, you'll get a quicker answer.  Or post on the gecko board on cnczone.  Either one will probably net a quicker answer since this is a Mach forum, not a Gecko Drives forum.

Monte

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SmoothStepper USB / Re: WOW

« on: April 22, 2008, 12:06:48 AM »

Just got mine going on my Taig, wow.  Smooth 100ipm rapids if I want so far.  Probably not though just because of lubrication, wear and tear.

Monte

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General Mach Discussion / Re: beefing up a G320

« on: April 19, 2008, 01:27:11 PM »

http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/geckodrive/messages

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SmoothStepper USB / Re: Does the SS have PWM outputs?

« on: April 19, 2008, 01:25:35 PM »

Pretty sure you'll need something else.  It's a USB port replacement for 2 parallel ports running with Mach3.  You can wait for someone else to describe it better, but if you're in a hurry might as well keep looking at the same time.

Here's the designer/manufacturor website, that's where the "real" support forum is.  You'd probably get a quicker reply there too.  Have to create another username though.

Monte

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Datum Zero

« on: April 16, 2008, 10:50:39 PM »

Sorry for the delay, just got back from a bombing run 

Score any hits?

What you said about setting the tool height clears it up for me.  Thought some manual measurement/setting had to be done.

Monte

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Datum Zero

« on: April 16, 2008, 08:14:20 AM »

This is british genius at it's best....

If your reply is to me, I can understand the lasers lining up at a certain height at a certain angle to each other, but the cutter height doesn't directly relate to them.  Unless he's using tool holders with a preset height in the spindle.

Monte

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General Mach Discussion / Re: I have not been able to find information on this automatic zero/ height meth

« on: April 15, 2008, 11:41:39 PM »

Something to remember, the Xylotex board is a stepper driver only.  The pins on the screw block go straight through to the corresponding pin on the parallel port through the ribbon cable you already have hooked up.  The Xylotex board doesn't do anything with those pins other than act as a connector for the pins from the parallel port it doesn't use, step, dir, etc.

Monte

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Datum Zero

« on: April 15, 2008, 10:55:42 PM »

Maybe I'm not seeing it, how does the cutter height relate to the lasers?  40mm from the part to where on the spindle?  Can't the cutter be set in the spindle/collet up or down a bit, i.e. not the same place everytime?

Monte

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General Mach Discussion / Re: I have not been able to find information on this automatic zero/ height method

« on: April 15, 2008, 10:37:27 PM »

Thank you so much for the help.

Can anyone identify this board to tell me where I wire this setup to?

I'm trying to build retracts for my Turbine Powered Jet, and want to shorten the time it takes to reset.

Thanks again,

Sean

That's a Xylotex 4 axis stepper driver.  http://www.xylotex.com , you can download a manual, it will give you the pinouts for the screw connector block, compare that with the instructions for Mach and you should be set.  Find the correct input pin for Mach and the matching pin on the screw block on the Xylotex board.  There's probably a pullup resistor in there too, don't miss that.  I assume that the threads I linked have that information, I haven't had time to read them completely through.  If you can't figure it out, post back.

Monte