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LazyTurn / Re: create new tool- grooving tool-inscribed circle

« on: August 04, 2012, 10:26:13 AM »

Fred,

How is the "inscribed circle" applied to a parting tool with a 3.5mm wide tip?

I will need to do some testing to see the affects of varying parameters and that takes time, hours not minutes.
I am going to guess that using tool tip radius and inscribed circle the same value and not ticking use use tool tip radius will
work but don't qoute me on that.

In the tool setup dialog what value must i puit in inscrided circle, tip radius and flank cut depth?

Each is defined in the manual starting on page 15.

what is the significance of the size of the inscribed circle and how is it used by the program ?

See attachment which corrects page 16 of the manual.

RICH

2502

General Mach Discussion / Re: Just switched from Art to Part to Mach3 and my Z is going crazy

« on: August 03, 2012, 05:49:53 PM »

Seems like that post processor from the file description may be for Mach version 2? ( which is very old ) and is for metric units.

RICH

2503

General Mach Discussion / Re: HELP!!! Mach won't work after update

« on: August 03, 2012, 05:46:45 PM »

but I paid for it - I 1000% paid for it!
How much and paid to who may I ask, the kid, a vendor, Artsoft?

I truly believe you paid money for it as you said .............money has no conscience though. 

RICH

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Just switched from Art to Part to Mach3 and my Z is going crazy

« on: August 03, 2012, 05:37:23 PM »

I know nothing about ArtCam, but you should be using a pp configured for Mach so you get the correct gcode posted.
RICH

2505

Share Your GCode / Re: New to cnc and looking for help.

« on: August 03, 2012, 05:34:48 PM »

May i suggest that you have a look in Members Doc's, End Mill Speeds and Feeds as to an approx spindle speed and feed that you will cut the
Al at. The gummy soft Al can be hard on small end mills.......just don't want you breaking them.   ;)You may want to say how thick your stock will be also.

RICH

2506

General Mach Discussion / Re: re:CNC Lathe program

« on: August 03, 2012, 05:22:56 PM »

Dennis,
Go to their site and you will find a list of currrent  pp available for download. They give an explaination for each.

RICH

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LazyTurn / Re: battling with dxf

« on: August 03, 2012, 05:19:50 PM »

Fred,
You can find some great Autocadd tutorials on the internet.

Go to the View tab >Display>UCS Icon> tick the ON and Origin. The USC Icon will now be at 0,0,0.
To move the profile, select everything, r mouse click MOVE, snap to the beginning of the profile, then in the comand line type 0,0,0
for where you want to move the selected items to be moved to. If you snapped correctly to the beginnng of the profile it should now be moved
and you will see the USC icon at 0,0.

RICH

2508

General Mach Discussion / Re: How to manually test individual Taig axis using Mach3

« on: August 03, 2012, 06:40:24 AM »

After clicking the FTP link you go to the Docs directory and in that directory you will find a file named Mach3 Setup Tutorial
which  you can open or save.

 Configuration is a problem for most new users and i think the major problem is the lack of understanding that
CNC is not plug and play and requires some understanding of each input. The understanding can come form reading  the Mach 3 Manual.

RICH

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General Mach Discussion / Re: How to manually test individual Taig axis using Mach3

« on: August 02, 2012, 04:33:04 PM »

Go to
Support>Videos
click on FTP link in the second sentence
>Docs>Mach3 Setup Tutorial

ftp://ftp.machsupport.com/Docs/Mach3%20Setup%20Tutorial.pdf

The executive beginners summary, 

RICH

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General Mach Discussion / Re: How to manually test individual Taig axis using Mach3

« on: August 02, 2012, 04:16:34 PM »

May I suggest you have a look at the Mach manual.
1. Select you units
2.Make sure the PP is proper address, start with 25khz, assign pinouts and enable each motor
3. define your units
4. Calculate the steps per unit for each axis. You can also use the axis calibration feature in Mach or
   you can also use the spread sheet in Toolbox section. set velocity and accel to a low value, puse duration to say 3.
   Later you can refine the above based on your system / testing.
5. for just jogging around you should be good to go with what the general config as is.
6. In system hotkeys select the jog key for each axis direction

Save the settings. SHould be enough to get you jogging so you can fool around.
Then read the Manual......read the Mach Manual.

RICH