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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach3 condition abnormal light

« on: March 15, 2009, 10:46:44 AM »

Jack, editing the xml may not be exactly straight forward. If you want to post your xml I'll edit it for you.

Brett

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach3 condition abnormal light

« on: March 15, 2009, 10:40:22 AM »

Jack, your xml file will be in the Mach 3 folder. Once you find it you will have to open it and edit it. As Chip has said, I normally don't encourage this but that is the only option to turn it off once it has been activated.

Brett

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FAQs / Re: G81 canned drill routine too slow to position

« on: March 14, 2009, 03:18:03 PM »

G0 and G1 are modal. That is what it will do until told to do something else. G0 is Rapid and G1 is a feed.

G0 X0 Y0 
G1 F5 Z-0.9
G0 Z 1.25
X 1.25 Y 1.25
X -1.25
Y -1.25
G1 F5 X 1.25 Y 1.25
X -1.25
Y -1.25

If you have space, run this program and see the actions produced by each line. Then you can run it in single block to help even more. Run it slow and watch it good to make sure your not going to crash and be ceratin all is well.

Brett

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General Mach Discussion / Re: BACKLASH PROBLEM MACHV3.042.020

« on: March 14, 2009, 01:34:03 PM »

Rich, with the larger numbers, I can see where that would be a problem. Can you set the shuttle Accel to .005 and see how that works? If you want, you can leave all other settings the same and have a play with the shuttle accel value and see how it affects the backlash comp. I don't understand it fully yet but most often good results come out of setting the shuttle value to .005. I haven't tried to emulate yet but I'm going to play with the mill and see if I can explain it better in a bit.

Brett

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Show"N"Tell ( What you have made with your CNC machine.) / Re: Miser engine

« on: March 14, 2009, 11:39:28 AM »

The project is looking very good Vince. You should be proud. 

Good luck with your job. I really hope things will level out for you in that department soon.

Brett

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General Mach Discussion / Re: BOARD PROBLEM HELP REQUIRED

« on: March 14, 2009, 11:29:46 AM »

Stephen, usually you would have 2 drives, 2 motors and slave the two together.

Brett

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General Mach Discussion / Re: BACKLASH PROBLEM MACHV3.042.020

« on: March 14, 2009, 11:27:32 AM »

Thanks Rich. If you can get it to repeat you may want to try another version of Mach if you have time. This sounds like a really odd one to me and the more we know about it, the easier it will be for Brian to track down.

Thanks Rich, great group we have here!

Brett

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General Mach Discussion / Re: BACKLASH PROBLEM MACHV3.042.020

« on: March 14, 2009, 11:07:16 AM »

I haven't seen that myself RICH but that doesn't mean it isn't happening. Can you post their XMLs and code they were running with notes when it goes haywire? I don't have the lathe running on Mach yet so I can't do a good test but I will try to emulate.

Brett

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach V.043 feed hold still broken

« on: March 14, 2009, 11:01:32 AM »

Sage, post your code and a note of what line it is on when you see the problem. Give us enough information so we can recreate the problem.

Brett

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Newbie AGAIN

« on: March 13, 2009, 05:09:26 PM »

I know nothing of cut 2d but does it have an option of the directory (file) your exporting to?

Brett