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Mach Screens / problem with screen4

« on: January 18, 2007, 05:45:06 AM »

I have a problem with screen 4

I installed in mach3's folder as request and when I try to open a screenset (.set or .lset) for modify it, appear the dialog shown in the picture...

What it means?

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General Mach Discussion / Shuttle pro v2 steps

« on: January 18, 2007, 05:32:29 AM »

Hi there i have a Shuttlepro v2 as pendant, when I turn the center wheel as single step mode, it produces at most 5-6 pulses per second, and it move so slow.

I have only mach3 plugin installed to drive the shuttlepro, no other software and I'm using the 2.037 version.
It's normal or it could generate more pulse/sec?

Thanks to all
Faby

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Show"N"Tell ( What you have made with your CNC machine.) / Re: Some wing molds out of mdf off of my big mill

« on: December 22, 2006, 03:53:06 AM »

I made something like that 4 month ago... but mine was for a 1:5 model car.
The mold was made in acrylic resin (i'm not sure of translation) and glossy finished.

Good job chad

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Shuttle question

« on: December 12, 2006, 05:44:13 AM »

If I understand what you mean, there's a way to assign it in  the plugin configuration screen.

Faby

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General Mach Discussion / Re: New CV features

« on: December 05, 2006, 09:15:14 AM »

This new version is better than before, and now the "stop cv on angle *********" function works.

I played with CV distance and max cv angle value and I found a good quality
I think that an hypothetical "exact path mode", cuold bring mach3 in the best choice for all, as me, mill 3D objects for mold industry.

Fabiano

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General Mach Discussion / Re: New CV features

« on: December 04, 2006, 06:36:43 AM »

wow I'm glad that my topics are so ensue...

I'll try the latest version too, because I'm so interested in something like "exact path mode".

Faby

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Shuttle pro

« on: November 23, 2006, 09:42:27 AM »

I did it... 
I uninstalled it, now it's ok.

Thanks

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Shuttle pro

« on: November 23, 2006, 08:14:08 AM »

I installed the latest version of mach3 and now it works, but i don't think it work ok

Look at the video here www.fxmodel.it/shuttle.wmv  is how it does.

Thanks Fab

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General Mach Discussion / Shuttle pro

« on: November 23, 2006, 06:04:33 AM »

I bought a contour design shuttle pro v2, but I don't know how to make it work.

I installed the device driver, and mach3 plugins (mach version 2.0 g), switches are working, but the wheel doesn't work why?
What I have to do?

Thanks a lot

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General Mach Discussion / Re: New CV features

« on: November 21, 2006, 03:52:31 PM »

> Is it not possible to make it ramp down as it comes up to corners, make the corner as posted, and then ramp out of the corner getting back up to speed without a hesitation

I use step-four driving software (www.step-four.at) from about 6 years and it does this, not in a good way however, because in some cases it doesn't ramp down at high speed and it loose steps... oops.
It's why I passed to mach3, because it's better in cv mode, but the rounded corners are a big problem.

I know it's an hard thing to do in terms of code writing, but I think that is good time to invest in.

I don't know how it's working now but I think that a plausible way could be to look ahead about 80/100 lines and analyze the direction vector, so slow the speed down smoothly near the corner over x degrees (as Scott says), as much as the cv algorithm could maintain small round on that corner...
Ehm... I hope you can understand what I want to say, the language differences are a bad things 

This is only and idea, maybe it is not a good thing 

Faby