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General Mach Discussion / Re: tool offsets when writing your own gcode

« on: April 26, 2011, 04:47:58 PM »

No, i'm using a mill, it has an 8 station carousel. So i have 8 tool positions but i will have more than 8 tools the second 8 will have to be given the second offset, and the third set of eight ect.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: tool offsets when writing your own gcode

« on: April 26, 2011, 04:11:38 PM »

Thanks Derek, i have the tool offsets stored and the g43 seems to work. The second tool offset is the multiple offsets on each tool position (m6 t0101) (m6 t0102), i take it you call them with the h1, h2, h3 ect.

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General Mach Discussion / tool offsets when writing your own gcode

« on: April 26, 2011, 07:38:32 AM »

Ok, i'm just starting with tool offsets and i've got an 8 station tool changer. When i write gcode manually and have to make a tool change what do i have to put in to make the change and get mach to see the offset.

i can get the change done with m6txx but how do i get the offset to apply. Do i have to add g43 hxx before the m6txx.

If that works how do i get the second tool offset for tool 1 to work.?

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Feature Requests / Re: Find a sure way to assign XYZ,ABC to LPT1 pins correctly.

« on: April 23, 2011, 02:00:51 PM »

on some computers i have trouble using pin 1, if not in EPP setting for the printer port

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Tangent Corner / Re: Restore Lathe Tailstock

« on: April 19, 2011, 09:38:55 AM »

re-machine the ways and space it to add the difference.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: 3 Parallel Port cards??

« on: April 10, 2011, 12:52:35 PM »

you could wire the x, y, and z limit switches in series and run them into one input, which will give you two inputs free.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Y-Axis Sticking

« on: March 28, 2011, 10:58:48 AM »

check the gnd connections on the drives.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Y-Axis Sticking

« on: March 28, 2011, 04:27:16 AM »

I had a similar problem to this, and it was the parallel lead from the comp to the machine that was at fault.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Denford Orac 8 station turret

« on: March 24, 2011, 06:57:00 AM »

same here, i blame the women in our lives for the knowledge of soaps.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Denford Orac 8 station turret

« on: March 24, 2011, 06:51:16 AM »

Stefan


Not sure who Jr is?

Hood

Have you not watched Dallas

Nope, not as old as you

Hood

lol, age comes to us all.