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General Mach Discussion / Re: Use of tools in a turret?

« on: March 07, 2012, 06:43:35 AM »

BTW, Luppie was a friend in Corpus Christi , Texas.....

RICH

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Can't raise feedrate past 50 in./min. without messing up... suggestions?

« on: March 06, 2012, 09:18:30 PM »

Can you increase the amp's and voltage with in the range of the stepper and driver?
If below allowable then you are not taking full advantage of your motors capability.

You can get bigger steppers that for the same given voltage and amp settings you will get more torque / acceleration / and also more usable velocity.

RICH

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Can't raise feedrate past 50 in./min. without messing up... suggestions?

« on: March 06, 2012, 07:37:01 PM »

Could be that you just don't have the torque available from your steppers to do the short fast moves that are being demanded by the code.
RICH

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Bit diving when doing tabs

« on: March 05, 2012, 10:30:38 PM »

Haven't read all of this. I did a tutorial on tabing and thought it was posted in the Lazycam Thread.
I will say this about tabbing, whatever I was able to hack at and find out, is in the manual.
Some times LC for whatever reason just gets wierd and best thing to do is just save whatever as a Lcam and as Russ said shut it down and restart.
Maybe will have some time tomorrow and read what your up to.......

Right now fixing the wifes pc that got a virus and wipped it bad......only 55 more windows updates to be installed and then all the other stuff to fix ...PITA...
and fortunately had a 2 year old image made of it so i didn't loose the operating system.....

Two hours and on page 85 of the stupid manual found how to turn the bluetooth on,
hey :)hey

manuals suck sometimes........

RICH

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Feature Requests / Re: Use with standard controllers

« on: March 05, 2012, 09:38:50 PM »

jprince,

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This is a pre-purchase decision. With all due respect, do not waste my time with, stop what you are doing and do it my way, class of comments.

I have no intention of asking you to do something my / our / or any other way. I requested information on intent of use so that we could more appropriately address
any questions you may have and help in a polite, understanding, friendly, manner. That's just how the nice folks are in here.

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All I want of MACH 3 is to visualize the cutting if possible, output Gcode that I can load into my controller and translate VB scripts that I may write.

There are manny wizards which provide gcode for common maching task and those that get more complex are somewhat handled by LazyCam or LazyTurn.
Mach can be used to visualize the pathing as it is run but not as well as some more elaborate programs dedicated to doing just that. I know nothing of your controller and as such
what it's specific dialect of gcode it will run satisfactorly.

If you plan on purchasing Mach, the community is more than happy to help you whenever we can. I you just plan on running mach in a unlicensed / free / demo mode and reap some benefits,
than by all means feel free to try it out for as long as you wish to see what that will provide.

Take care,

RICH

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Feature Requests / Re: Use with standard controllers

« on: March 05, 2012, 12:02:56 PM »

Why not just purchase mach and use it as the controller and avoid the restrictions of unlicensed use?
RICH

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Feature Requests / Re: Use with standard controllers

« on: March 05, 2012, 06:27:24 AM »

If i understand you correctly, you want to be able to use MACH3 in demo mode / unlicensed for it's Wizards or LazyCam which come with Mach and then use some other "CNC software controller" to run the machine . Is that correct?

RICH

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