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LazyCam (Beta) / Re: Thanks to Brian & or Lazy cam Team! Please keep up the good work!!!

« on: January 25, 2007, 10:18:52 AM »

This seems to be the place for leave our thanks, so.....
  Thanks to all who give their time and efforts to please all of the people all the time!
I hate to admit it, but you all give me a life!

John (bloy)

P.S.  good thing my wife doesn't pay attention to these forums and see me say that

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Tangent Corner / future touch screens?

« on: January 23, 2007, 04:35:44 PM »

....just thought maybe someone would like to watch a movie...
  When big screen prices come down,  or the software is prevalent:

http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid271543545/bctid422563006

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G-Code, CAD, and CAM discussions / Re: G/M code Library

« on: January 22, 2007, 02:07:08 PM »

Graham:
  I think what you have would be a great addition to this site!
I hope Benny sees this and figures out a good way to put your "examples" up for everyone to learn from!

Bloy (formerly Amnz)

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NC Pod / Re: Report Any NC Pod Driver, Firmware or Documentation Download Problems Here

« on: January 20, 2007, 11:17:00 AM »

Ah... this has happened to me.  I went into windows and did a search for "machsupport" and where ever there was a cookie in the list I deleted it.  Then I relogged on to this site.   

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Servo following errors... Please, need some help.

« on: January 20, 2007, 11:12:06 AM »

Was the encoder card working?  did it trigger a
software "Reset" alerting that  a count discrepancy has occurred?  If so OR if not, what kind of error occured?  Was it progressive?
Did it happen all of a sudden? 
Theoretically, the card should stop the program when it senses something wrong allowing you to regroup and continue.

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NC Pod / Re: Report Any NC Pod Driver, Firmware or Documentation Download Problems Here

« on: January 20, 2007, 09:02:25 AM »

It works here....I was able to download the "pod driver.jpg" picture file just fine.

To get the actual driver, go here:
www.cncteknix.com/ncpod/ncpoddriver.zip

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Works in progress / Re: Well i finally uploaded my 6 axis screen, was 5 axis.......

« on: January 20, 2007, 07:30:32 AM »

 I like this!

I'm sorry, ....a little bit slow here...
Could you explain how to install files in their correct places to get this to work?
I have the folder "UT buttons-JPG"  in the Mach3 "bitmaps",
                        The "6Axis.set" file in the Mach3 directory in C:
I still am at a loss to get this to work.

Help!

never mind... just need glasses

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G-Code, CAD, and CAM discussions / Re: Possibly bad G-Code turning arc into circles

« on: January 19, 2007, 08:34:44 PM »

here's a link to some videos that BobCadCam's Sorin has put out free. He really makes things look easy.  Maybe you have already seen this.
http://cadcamtrainer.com/forums/showthread.php?p=2439#post2439


I'm also assuming that you have the Mach3mill post processor offered at BobCam's main sight.  In support

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G-Code, CAD, and CAM discussions / Re: Possibly bad G-Code turning arc into circles

« on: January 19, 2007, 05:16:27 PM »

This tool might help clean up all your errant element directions..

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G-Code, CAD, and CAM discussions / Re: Possibly bad G-Code turning arc into circles

« on: January 19, 2007, 02:31:13 PM »

I have BobCadCam. It is used so infrequently by me that I am always in the learning mode, but it does what I need.  Whatever the drawing, I just keep re-generating the code and back checking to see what causes what to happen.  To see how your drawing turns into Gcode, I would need to have the drawing file as well.  I remember making a drill cycle with a dozen holes and a multi-cycle profile for the same part(similar in ways to yours), but I had separate files that I just ran after changing tools. Probably, they could have been combined into one file but impatience made me pass on that and just ran them separately.

tool path and selection order always seemed important.