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Show"N"Tell ( What you have made with your CNC machine.) / Re: Gertrude Gets Some!

« on: May 10, 2009, 10:20:12 AM »

Very, very good Chris! A good looking machine and good looking parts your making with it.     

Thanks for sharing,
Brett

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General Mach Discussion / Re: frustrated can somebody help me set mach up?

« on: May 09, 2009, 04:26:25 PM »

Reed, I have sent you a personal message.

Brett

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Members Docs / Default Hotkeys list

« on: May 09, 2009, 02:11:37 PM »

This is the present default Mach screens hotkeys list. It will be changeing at some point, probably with the release of the 4.0 version. Generating this list would have been nearly impossible without Klaus's Machscreen Screen designer. Many thanks to Klaus for his work on this. The designer can be found at Klaus's website. A link to his website is posted in this message in a topic about his designer  http://www.machsupport.com/forum/index.php/topic,11122.msg69909.html#msg69909

Notes: The list can be sorted by screen type, Hotkey, Function, and Page it is called from. Text in red means the same hotkey calls more than one function in the same screen set.

I hope this helps,
Brett

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General Mach Discussion / NC Pod Hero needed

« on: May 09, 2009, 09:00:39 AM »

Calling any and all NC Pod heroes.

Weirdness in progress.

Assailant possibly in need of a good beat down with a 18 inch piece of 3/8 rubber hose.

Victim is still conscious but gasping for breath.

The address is  http://www.machsupport.com/forum/index.php/topic,11451.new.html#new 

 

Brett

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NC Pod / Re: Problem configuring NC Pod

« on: May 09, 2009, 08:46:02 AM »

Freddy, that is a very nice looking little machine.

Hopefuly someone will help with your NCPod questions. I have never had one so I'm afraid I won't be much help. I will post a topic in the general discussion board to try to get a few more eyes on your topic.

Brett

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Machscreen Screen Designer / Re: Screendesigner "machscreen"

« on: May 09, 2009, 12:47:10 AM »

Suggestions for selecting/editing items in design view.


I really like the the way we can drag a box to select multiple items and Hold down the Ctrl key and click a single item to dictate which is to be the driving item for alignment and spacing buttons. That is very nice. I can think of 2 tools in this area that would be very nice.

1) In some CAD packages I use you can select multiple items and then deselect individually by holding down the shift key and selecting the individual item you want to deselect. If you picked the wrong item to deselect you just hold down the shift key and click to reselect and it puts back in the selected group again. In screen 4 this is done by holding down the Ctrl key and selecting individual items to deselect.

2) It would be great if you could select multiple items and re size all selected based on ratios. If you had one item that was 10 pixels high and a second that was 20 pixels high and selected both. You would hold down the control key to choose which would be the driving item if it was not already. Lets say the 20 pixel high item is the driving item in this case. You drag it to double its height to 40 pixels and the original 10 pixel item height would now be 20 pixels high. I think that would be best but an alternative method might be if the items could be edited from the overview page. Maybe if you select multiple items in design view and go to the overview page they would be listed at the top and highlighted or sorted by selected items.

Just throwing the line out and fishing for input,
Brett

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Machscreen Screen Designer / Re: Screendesigner "machscreen"

« on: May 09, 2009, 12:07:58 AM »

Suggestions for editing Global items.


I know that all objects that are global are displayed on page 0 and can be edited from there, but I haven't seen yet how to change the global setting. The only way I can see to do this right now is to just delete the object from screen 0. I like the idea of haveing all global objects on one page. This makes it nice but I'm trying to figure out a way to edit these from any page. I relise this could get complicated. My thoughts are it would be great if the global objects could be edited from any page by seleting it and changeing its global status to yes or no. If it is yes and you change to no, it is deleted from page 0 and not the rest of the pages. They would have to be edited individually. One step further would be a check box to delete all or just from page 0. One more step above that would be to have a box to list pages to delete items from (1,2,6,9) for example. This way if you have 12 pages and only want to remove it from one of them, it would be a very simple process. If you change it from no to yes, it would be added to page 0 and to all other pages.

Thanks,
Brett

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General Mach Discussion / Re: SPINDLE WON'T SHUT DOWN

« on: May 07, 2009, 10:10:13 PM »

Tell us more about your setup. How are you controlling the analog to your VFD?

Brett

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General Mach Discussion / Re: SPINDLE WON'T SHUT DOWN

« on: May 07, 2009, 08:52:35 PM »

Sounds like maybe you min. speed for the pulley it is running may be 3000. If so, change it to 0 and see if that cures it. Config, spindle pulley.

Brett

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Mach SDK plugin questions and answers. / Re: XBox360 Controller Plugin Update Available

« on: May 06, 2009, 08:19:45 PM »

Thanks Lee, I haven't had the time or need for it yet, but thank you all the same.

Brett