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5021

General Mach Discussion / Re: taig monkeys

« on: December 02, 2006, 11:29:46 AM »

Press your tab button, this will hide and show your MPG screen.

5022

G-Code, CAD, and CAM discussions / Re: G42 problem

« on: December 02, 2006, 10:38:05 AM »

Let no Man nor Beast question the infinite knowledge of the G Code Guru. Nice break down Graham. Even I can understand that.

5023

General Mach Discussion / Re: taig monkeys

« on: December 02, 2006, 09:50:32 AM »

Oowee, climb that tree! There are many Bananas at the top.

5024

General Mach Discussion / Re: Progam stopping in mid-run

« on: December 01, 2006, 08:57:20 PM »

Oops, I see you allready have.

EDIT
Referring to PM

5025

General Mach Discussion / Re: taig mill motor tuning

« on: December 01, 2006, 09:20:50 AM »

Hi Nige,
    I got your PM. Here is how you do the math. I will give you mine as an example. What we need to know is, How many pulses from Mach will it take to move the machine 1 of your units? (inch,mm) Mine is in inches. 1 inch = 10,000 pulses on mine. This is how I came up with the number.
My steppers have 200 pulses per revolution. ( 360 degrees divided by 1.8 degrees = 200 )
Micro stepping = 10. So 200 X 10=2,000
Motor to screw gearing is 1-1. So 2,000 X 1=2,000
Screw lead is .200 of an inch. My screw will have to turn 5 rounds to move the nut 1". 1.0 divided by 0.200=5. So 2,000 X 5=10,000.
Do the math first. Then we can move on. Once we are certain of all of this, dialing it in should be easy. Right now we don't know if you are skipping steps because the accel. and vel. are set to high or what.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: taig mill motor tuning

« on: December 01, 2006, 07:23:21 AM »

Check your e-mail and personal messages. Are you set up in imperial or metric? Motor tuning shouldn't be any trouble. 

5027

General Mach Discussion / Re: MACH3 ....017?

« on: November 30, 2006, 09:00:33 PM »

I just downloaded again. It is displaying correctly now.

5028

General Mach Discussion / Re: anyone know where to get an optical edge finder?

« on: November 30, 2006, 05:48:26 PM »

If you are still looking, Fine Centering Scope.

http://www1.mscdirect.com/CGI/NNSRIT?PMAKA=GY06539332

$189.00

5029

General Mach Discussion / Re: Progam stopping in mid-run

« on: November 30, 2006, 05:05:37 PM »

I don't think your PC is the issue. It's not a lap top is it? If you can't get it to repeat, you may have a noise issue. What do you have your debounce set at. Come to think of it, I don't even know if Mach 2 has a debounce setting. I'm pretty new at all of this. Why haven't you upgraded to Mach 3 yet?

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General Mach Discussion / Re: MACH3 ....017?

« on: November 30, 2006, 04:51:36 PM »

Hi Franco,
    No worries, mine says the same thing. I guess they just forgot to change the number there. I wouldn't worry about it. They will probably have a newer release soon anyway. They have been updating revisions at an astonishing rate lately. There fingers must be tired.