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General Mach Discussion / Re: Reconfigure USB Jogging Dongle

« on: August 14, 2008, 06:50:08 AM »

If windows recognizes the dongel as a HID device you could easily set that up in Keygrabber.

Brett

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Scripting Help Tool Zero

« on: August 14, 2008, 06:47:25 AM »

Phil, I have to run to work right now but the script I posted jogs the z down till it hits the plate, sets the z axis dro to vale determined in this line. "Plate Thickness=0.059. It then retracts the z to a sfe distance of 2.5. If you jog down 2.5 inches wou will be at tht top of the part (if your using my plate). But, any of those values can be edited in that script to do as you wish. Another dro can be added, will try to work on it this evening when i get in.

Brett

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General Mach Discussion / Re: mill retro HELP

« on: August 14, 2008, 06:40:59 AM »

 

Ed, Have a look at opto 22s site. You can get an opto relay that will switch 30 amps operated by 5V for about $30.00 I think and it is opto isolated.

Brett

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mastercam 9 to mach3

« on: August 13, 2008, 11:15:21 PM »

Hey Josh, I think he was asking if the post processor for Mastercam found at that link would generate good code for Mach.

Brett

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SmoothStepper USB / Re: distance traveled not matching value input

« on: August 13, 2008, 11:12:44 PM »

 

Brett

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General Mach Discussion / Re: mill retro HELP

« on: August 13, 2008, 10:30:48 PM »

 


Brett

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Loading mega million line Gcode files

« on: August 13, 2008, 08:55:45 PM »

Thanks Larry, glad we could help. I may be the only one you talked to on this problem, but I have talked to thousands that have helped me to help you. Great group here.

Brett

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General Mach Discussion / Re: mill retro HELP

« on: August 13, 2008, 08:32:06 PM »

 

Brett

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Scripting Help Tool Zero

« on: August 13, 2008, 06:23:44 PM »

Phil, I'm sorry, I don't know what your asking. At teh top it says

PlateThickness =0.059   'This is where you enter your plate thickness.

Then further down it says

Call SetDro (2, PlateThickness)   'This is where it sets your z axis dro to compensate for plate thickness.

Thie line above sets dro 2 to the value you have in the line at the top "PlateThickness =0.059 "
You can change the number of the DRO it is setting in this line from 2 to what ever your using. 2 is the z axis dro to 0.059 "Plate thickness"  after it touches the plate. In the Plate Thickness line you can change 0.059 to 12 if you want to.

Brett

Brett

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Scripting Help Tool Zero

« on: August 13, 2008, 01:32:11 PM »

'Auto Tool Touchoff CurrentFeed = GetOemDRO(818) 'Get the current feedrate.




PlateThickness =0.059   'This is where you enter your plate thickness.






ProbeFeed = 5


Code "G90 F" &ProbeFeed

If GetOemLed (825)=0 Then
Code "G4 P2" 'Time to get to the z-plate
Code "G31Z-5 F" &ProbeFeed
While IsMoving()
Wend
Code "G4 P0.25"
ZProbePos = GetVar(2002)
Code "G0 Z" &ZProbePos
While IsMoving ()
Wend





Call SetDro (2, PlateThickness)   'This is where it sets your z axis dro to compensate for plate thickness.







Code "G4 P0.5" 'Pause for Dro to update.
Code "G0 Z0.25" 'Change the Z retract height here
Code "(Z axis is now zeroed)"
Code "F" &CurrentFeed
Else
Code "(Z-Plate is grounded, check connection and try again)"
Exit Sub
End If