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Works in progress / Re: Screenset for my touch screen

« on: August 21, 2006, 05:22:52 PM »

Hood

Tried your screen today, very nice but for some reason it won't work on my small touch screen 800x600, works fine on my normal screen 1024x768.
All the other screens I've tried work fine in 800x600 as long as I click the auto enlarge button in config/settings, when I tried this with your screen it squashed it all up against the top of the screen.
Any Ideas? or am I going to have to buy a bigger touch screen just to use your screen design.

Thanks

Chris

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General Mach Discussion / Re: mach troubles

« on: July 31, 2006, 08:39:05 AM »

Do you know if the artsoft group has any postprocessor info available for mastercam x? 

The fanuc 3X mill postprocessor works quite well, you should already have it in your mastercam post folder.

Cheers

Chris

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Softlimits

« on: July 31, 2006, 08:34:16 AM »

Thanks, I'm looking forward to it.

Cheers

Chris

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Softlimits

« on: July 31, 2006, 04:46:19 AM »

Yeah that would be brilliant, might save some thuds

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Softlimits

« on: July 30, 2006, 04:22:38 PM »

I think we should add in code to look and see if the machine can run the program We Know if it is not going to fit..

That would take care of the thud 

Thanks Brian, just out of interest how do "we know if it is not going to fit.."

Cheers

Chris

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Softlimits

« on: July 29, 2006, 07:12:02 PM »

Alright thanks again.

Just been looking at what you said about it showing the z axis, I notice it doesn't take into account of the the tool length offsets so it doesn't really help but thanks for trying.

Cheers

Chris

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Softlimits

« on: July 29, 2006, 06:46:43 PM »

"table view should show the Z as well, you just need to use your mouse to skew the toolpath window" Oh I, didn't know that, thanks

Just had another idea is it possible to slow the feed down when a switch is triggered as there is already a switch mounted and wired up for this very purpose that the original control used when homing the z axis (Bridgeport Boss). It used to rapid travel up to this switch then slowly feed up onto the home\limit switch.

Cheers

Chris

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Softlimits

« on: July 29, 2006, 06:18:51 PM »

Yeah, I've got my display mode on table view but you can't see the Z axis which is the one that is most likely to go past the limits.

Like you say I don't think it will do the motors any harm but I guess it will lose steps when this occurs which I thought was the reason for having softlimits.

Cheers

Chris

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Softlimits

« on: July 29, 2006, 04:51:01 PM »

Hi Hood

I tried putting the softlimits a little away from the limit switches and while it does stop it going into overtravel the motors don't seam to like it, it sounds like they hit the end of the ball screw (a real loud thud), I would much prefer them to deaccelerate as they do when jogging, thought there would just be a tick box somewhere that I had missed.

Cheers

Chris

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General Mach Discussion / Softlimits

« on: July 29, 2006, 12:45:56 PM »

Hi

I've noticed that the soft limits work brilliantly when jogging the machine around, I've got them set so they slow the axis right down before stopping just before the limit switch but when I ran a program the soft limit still work but no longer slow the axis down before it reaches the soft limit allowing it to carry on far enough to trip the machine out on the limit switch. Am I doing something wrong or do they all do that?

I'm very new to Mach 3 and have only just set my machine up to work with Mach 3 so please excuse me if my question is a bit silly.

Cheers

Chris