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General Mach Discussion / Re: CV Problems / Losing steps

« on: June 02, 2007, 09:11:16 PM »

Hey Mark, you can post here on the forum. If you don't know how, watch the welcome tutor, one of the top topics in the general disscusion board.

Brett

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Mach3 and G-Rex / Re: how to config motors with G100

« on: June 02, 2007, 08:17:18 AM »

Monty, try this. Disable your limits in ports and pins and see if that helps the Ref all Home routine. If it does, you could use soft limits I think.

Brett

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Tangent Corner / Re: Playing with my camera.

« on: June 02, 2007, 08:12:37 AM »

Very impressive Benny. I don't think there are any limits as to what you can do really good once you set your mind to it. Keep'em coming and, any pointers how to take good pictures is allways appreciated. Seems the first is, use a tripod.

Brett

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Mach3 and G-Rex / Re: how to config motors with G100

« on: June 01, 2007, 10:55:10 PM »

I hope you get it sorted Monty. I will have more time to work on the Manual after the work shop. Yeap, small world. I just went to an airshow Sunday in florence.

Brett

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Mach3 and G-Rex / Re: how to config motors with G100

« on: June 01, 2007, 09:28:33 PM »

Sorry Monty, I just got in. I'm not familiar with it enough yet to say for sure but I did find some differences in our set ups. I have attached a few screen shots, I hope they help.

Brett

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Tangent Corner / Re: Playing with my camera.

« on: June 01, 2007, 06:36:36 AM »

What kind of Camera is it Benny? Specs please. Was the camera mounted? I know nothing about photography but those look great.

Brett

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Mach3 and G-Rex / Re: how to config motors with G100

« on: May 31, 2007, 09:52:28 PM »

Hey Monte, I don't see why that wouldn't work.

Brett

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Mach3 and G-Rex / Re: how to config motors with G100

« on: May 31, 2007, 08:17:34 PM »

I'm here if you want to talk. Wire your home switches in to the limit pin right beside the axis dir pin. Set them up as pins 17-22, port 1 in ports and pins. Make your limits pins any from pins 1-16 port one.  Also, post your xml file here for us to look at.

Brett

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Digitizing

« on: May 31, 2007, 07:53:45 PM »

Amazing. Looks real good to me.


Brett

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G-Code, CAD, and CAM discussions / Re: Question about G1 speed

« on: May 31, 2007, 07:04:04 PM »

Or should I look at it all as generic "units", where the x might move 1.000 unit, and the a moves 90.000 units?

That is correct. Mach looks at the units. Your feed rate is the surface speed of your tool, nothing else. Say you have a rod that is going to have one spiral flute cut in it 1 inch from tip to tip. You want your Code to look like this if you are set up in degrees in your a and say your x is the axis it is running in. Your code would look like this. G1 X1.0 A360.0 F? This F value is surface speed. If you put in a 1 then it will take, I don't know, it is not important. The thing that is important is the surface speed. When you do the math to get the desired Feed rate for the cutter, that is the f value. If your surface speed needs to be 30 IPM then F=30. When you enter you Use diameter as feedrate, Mach does the math for you. I hope we are talking about the same thing. I have sent you a personal message.

Brett