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Modbus / Re: Mach3, Arduino, Modbus and MPG

« on: November 25, 2012, 09:50:23 PM »

John,

See the developer's notes at the website in the initial comments section of the sketch. Not all the modbus functions are implemented in this one. For digital inputs and other functions of Arduino, I'd recommend to go through the example codes of Arduino software and the tutorial section of the Arduino website.

Zafar

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Modbus / Re: Mach3, Arduino, Modbus and MPG

« on: November 21, 2012, 04:49:15 AM »

I use winrar for the rar files. It's a nice little harmless utility.

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Beta Brains / Re: Analog FRO with Arduino

« on: November 20, 2012, 01:28:20 AM »

The tutorial is here http://www.machsupport.com/forum/index.php/topic,22982.0.html

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Modbus / Re: Mach3, Arduino, Modbus and MPG

« on: November 20, 2012, 01:14:39 AM »

can everyone post some tutorial how to program inputs for FRO and spindle override in brain and modbus seting for arduino modbus.thanks

http://www.machsupport.com/forum/index.php/topic,22982.0.html

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Modbus / Simple tutorial on analog inputs with Arduino

« on: November 20, 2012, 01:12:31 AM »

Here's a simple tutorial describing the steps for setting analog input to Mach3 through Arduino. FRO and Spindle override are shown in the example. Any of the dro's in Mach3 can be controlled in this way.

Zafar

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Others / Arduino sketch for analog inputs to Mach3

« on: November 20, 2012, 12:52:55 AM »

Here's the Arduino sketch to be used with the analog inputs tutorial.

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Beta Brains / Analog FRO with Arduino

« on: November 20, 2012, 12:47:33 AM »

Here's the brain AnalogFRO.brn as used in the tutorial for Arduino and Mach3.

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Polls / Re: Depth of cut strategy

« on: September 01, 2012, 08:52:13 AM »

I use mastercam extensively for generating toolpaths. It makes the depth cuts of equal value if they don't divide up to an integer value. A separate option is available for number of finish passes and the amount to cut in the finish passes.

Zafar

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Show"N"Tell ( Your Machines) / Turret Punches with Mach3

« on: August 27, 2012, 09:55:56 AM »

Here are videos of two of the turret punch press we retrofitted in the last few months.

http://youtu.be/elpTUf00gZc
This is LVD fabri-center, 1988 model, with 33 station turret and 30 ton press.

http://youtu.be/lhOSqPSiClk
This one is LVD Shape Beta, 1994 model, with 15 station turret and 20 ton press.

Zafar

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Brains Development / Re: Feedrate override with MPG

« on: July 25, 2012, 05:30:54 AM »

  MPG doesn't work during program execution. So this brain is useless for FRO during a program. I have to try a few more ideas. Let's see ....