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General Mach Discussion / Re: Needed, Good wireing diagram program

« on: April 03, 2008, 11:38:38 PM »

Thanks Guys. I will have a look at Eagle. Think it is the only one I haven't looked at yet. Unless I'm overly impressed with it, I'll use the Autosketch. It is a watered down version of Autocad, but like Whacko, I like it better than the full blown Autocad. Not knocking it, just bragging on Autosketch. Express PCB looked ok too. The one thing I like about the Autosketch verses the others is the views. Printable views. You can draw it in a scale of 1=100 and zoom in for detail and print the page view. That is nice. Can also set it up for a large plotter and print tiles on standard paper. Hopefully I'll get something together to post in the next 2 weeks. While in this learning curve, I thought it would be nice if we had a dxf, dwg components library we could add to and share with each other. Could have common components such as BOBs, smooth stepper, etc. What do you guys think?

Does anyone know any of the standards for labeling if there are any?

Brett

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Tormach update HELP need config file for upgrade to 2.63

« on: April 03, 2008, 12:11:33 PM »

Arnie, did he have his xml backed up before trying to upgrade? Sounds to me like he may have lost it.

Brett

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Needed, Good wireing diagram program

« on: April 03, 2008, 05:07:21 AM »

If anyone has a list of standards to follow for labeling connectors, switches, wires, cable assemblies, etc. I would love to hear that. I'm sure I can come up with my own logical system, but would be nice to know industry standards if there are any.

Brett

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Needed, Good wireing diagram program

« on: April 03, 2008, 04:19:32 AM »

Thanks Sshneider. I looked at it earlier today. I have all but come to the conclusion that this is going to have to be done the good old fashioned way. In cad.    Oh well, I don't think it will be too bad once I get my symbols made up. The more I mess with Autosketch, the more I like it. I think with the added benefits of doing in cad, it will be worth the time. I will allways have the symbols in a scaled dxf. I can zoom in on any part and print a page view, will be nice for seeing the tiny details. I have attached a screen shot of some of the things I have been messing with. I downloaded all of Automation directs dxf files for most things they sell. That will help a lot I think.

Thanks,
Brett

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach Candidate ? ? ?

« on: April 03, 2008, 01:06:11 AM »

Well, I'm still in the process of ending. 

I have some jam up little servos and drives that are a great price. New in the box with cables and all I'm dieing to talk about but can't yet. The same guy may be getting some motors that are 2.4 times bigger and at 400 RPM faster. I'm waiting to see how that pans out. These will do a good job I think but to get the rapids, accels, tolerances I want, I think I will have to go bigger. If I was planning on being the only one running the machine, they would be fine as is but hopefully a button smasher will be in front of it more than me. I'm pretty sure you would like these on that series 2. I'm using one of those geckos on my tool chain servo.

Brett 

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Tormach update HELP need config file for upgrade to 2.63

« on: April 03, 2008, 12:38:27 AM »

Hey Arnie, his xml file for the 2.4 should work in 2.63. Don't put him out of comission on this, lets make sure first.

Brett

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach Candidate ? ? ?

« on: April 03, 2008, 12:35:45 AM »

RC, this is just a wild guess, but I think they will be brush type DC and way to big for a Gecko.

Brett

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Needed, Good wireing diagram program

« on: April 03, 2008, 12:30:08 AM »

Thanks Darek, nice ladder. You do good work. I did download Express PCB early on today and played with it a little. It looks like it would be nice for ladders. I really wanted to do a schematic, but looks like I will run out of patience before I find a good program for that. Diptrace is way ahead of all I have seen for this so far, just too pricey.

Brett

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Mach Screens / Re: Screen 4 Frustration

« on: April 02, 2008, 10:36:35 PM »

One thing I figured out the hard way is this, set it to a res. that you can see the entire screen. If you can and scroll over to a place the buttons at the other extreme can't be seen, go back and now you can't edit them. Also disable the background image. THere are a couple of videos on it in the tutorial, video tutorials section.

Brett

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Needed, Good wireing diagram program

« on: April 01, 2008, 11:01:45 PM »

Thanks Guys.


Brett