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General Mach Discussion / Re: I'm just a tease

« on: March 18, 2009, 07:23:13 AM »

Peter, Rich, read the fine print. 

It covers a lot of ground but the most noticeable is the tool path display.

I don't know what you guys are talking about in particular but I'm well aware their are some bugs. This is a step in the right direction on all fronts IMO. Does this mean it will be 100% bug free on release? Not at all, but definatley a step in the right direction.

Rich, Hopefully in the end the PC requirements will stay the same and possibly even lower but the changes should make it so that any system will run at maximum potential.

Brett

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General Mach Discussion / I'm just a tease

« on: March 17, 2009, 11:38:58 PM »

Hey guys, I thought I should tell you about a new version of Mach that will be coming out in the future. I have been testing it a little this evening. There have been many advances and enhancements made to Mach in the past year or so that aren't so obvious (behind the scenes stuff) to many of the users but this one you will get to see. It covers a lot of ground but the most noticeable is the tool path display. You can pan, zoom, rotate on the fly. Also you can pick different screen pages while running code with no problems and the toolpath will be the same on every page. Not saying it will be the same tool path, same size, etc. It will be showing the same in each instance though. You can have multiple work cord. showing at the same time and they will update on the fly. It is crazy fast as well. I tested 2 versions. One updating at 100 times a sec. and one at 50 times a sec. The one at 100 is so fast that if you change pages in the screen, it happens so fast you hardly know it. No lag at all, none. The feed rate over ride is crazy fast as well. You can't click your mouse as fast as it can respond. I will do some more testing and try to make a short video in the next week or so. I know I haven't worded this to reflect the huge advance this is but I'm sure time will speak volumes. 

Excited to say the least,
Brett

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Mach SDK plugin questions and answers. / Re: File Zipping

« on: March 17, 2009, 05:11:22 PM »

Hey Tom, I think most of us use winrar. There should be many free downloads on the web. Here is one link I got but I haven't downloaded from it in the past.

http://www.win-rar.com/downloadond.html?ClickID=bdd6mz1fqdyllnuygqgm1mgey6gddgemsgvg

Can you use windows file compressor?

Brett

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General Mach Discussion / Re: 'offline' Simulated Run

« on: March 17, 2009, 02:46:24 PM »

Scrrenie out of useing Mach3 Mill manual.

Brett

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General Mach Discussion / Re: screen

« on: March 16, 2009, 10:04:28 PM »

Support tab at the top of this page, video tutorials. Also there are some more (below where the cursor is in the screenie) that Benney posted that are a lot of help on building graphics to use in a screen.

Brett

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Router doing weird things

« on: March 15, 2009, 06:09:37 PM »

Are the rapids too much causing it to loose posotion while going up? Make sure the tool isn't loose in the spindle and being pulled out a little makeing it go deeper into the work.

Brett

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Need help Z axis setup???

« on: March 15, 2009, 06:05:39 PM »

Lokey, the values that are tripping the softlimits are probably work coord. and not machine corrd. Try jogging the z down till it just touches the top of the work piece and zero the z axis work cord DRO by clicking the button just to the left of it on the program run screen.

Brett 

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General Mach Discussion / Re: So what IS "driver watchdog triggered"???

« on: March 15, 2009, 04:23:28 PM »

Bill, for now I would turn off the use watchdog trigger in general config for now. There are a few lines about it in different manuals but I will try to get a more in depth answer for ya.

Brett

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach MAD plugin, what are you using it for?

« on: March 15, 2009, 04:02:52 PM »

I just had a quick play with the latest Mach MAD. The added functionality of being able to run VB straight form Mach MAD is a great benefit. I haven't had much time lately to do any customising of Mach but I can't hardly wait till I get to. Good job Scott! I'm sure the Mad plug-in will save me lots and lots of time.

Brett

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General Mach Discussion / Re: keygrabber

« on: March 15, 2009, 02:21:57 PM »

This may help some.

http://www.machsupport.com/forum/index.php/topic,1391.0.html

Brett