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General Mach Discussion / Re: feed overide

« on: February 11, 2007, 06:44:03 PM »

Good point Hood.  I bet that 16 meg card gave you enough time to get another cup of coffee.   

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General Mach Discussion / Re: feed overide

« on: February 11, 2007, 06:18:59 PM »

Tony,

As far as removing pages, I guess you could use the jump to page button and then delete everything on that page.  I'd make a backup copy just in case you want any pages back that you may have customized differently than the default set.

I don't know if you'll gain anything once Mach3 is running, but it would load faster.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: feed overide

« on: February 10, 2007, 11:20:02 AM »

Tony,

You can use Screen4 to assign a hotkey to the buttons.  They are currently (in the 1024.set screen) set to F10(121) and F11(122).

Open the screen set that you're using and double or right click on the buttons and you'll see where to set the hotkey.  You can't type anything in the box, but just uncheck and recheck the checkbox for a prompt to come up.

You can probably use the Keygrabber program in the Mach3 folder too, but I haven't taken the time to make sense of that program.

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Works in progress / Re: New screen for Ascension 1000 users

« on: February 09, 2007, 07:52:39 PM »

I tried the 'Gaussian Blur' effect, but found that it had little to no affect on the DRO reflections or the page buttons/section labels.  I could increase the transparency a bit to lessen the 'glare' a bit.

The background texture is just a black rectangle with a frame bevel and some grain texture with a bit of transparency.  The holes through are black shapes with inset and shadow applied.

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Works in progress / Re: New screen for Ascension 1000 users

« on: February 09, 2007, 12:42:15 AM »

Thanks Guys,

I've been using it on my tool for a couple of weeks now and it works well for me.  There are a few things that are coded for personal preference/usage, but some of the macros could be changed as needed.  I suppose I could make a generic 'RESET' button instead of the logo for those that are using a different controller.  I may do that if anyone is interested.

At the moment, I don't have a place to upload it to for downloading.  I live with 'Dial-up' 

It'll be a while before I get the rest done up, but it'll get there eventually.    Although it is functional as is.

Mike, I'll have to take a look and see if RealDraw has a Gausian Blurr setting.  I'm in no way a pro at this, nor am I a graphic artist, I just started playing with RealDraw and came up with and idea and went with it.   

 

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Works in progress / Re: New screen for Ascension 1000 users

« on: February 08, 2007, 09:20:37 AM »

Restored.    I was concerned about posting it as large as I did.

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Works in progress / Re: New screen for Ascension 1000 users

« on: February 07, 2007, 11:49:42 PM »

Thanks Benny.  And thanks for the tutorials! 

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Works in progress / New screen for Ascension 1000 users

« on: February 07, 2007, 06:05:12 PM »

Here's a new four axis screen for Ascension 1000 controller users that I'm working on.  I have the Program Run, About, G-code and M-code screen so far.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: New CV features

« on: February 01, 2007, 11:09:29 PM »

I am running the same hardware as Gary is.  I'm running that gun file at 100 in/min with an accel of 15 and a CV Tol of 0.10.  Velocity is 850.2 X and Y.  Any more than 15 on the acell and I get too much (for lack of a better term) after jiggle from the jerk in the Y direction.   

The table is solid enough, it's the carriages.  I've done what I can for reinforcing them short of welding the whole thing up, but I'd rather build a completely new gantry/carriage than have some local sod buster welder come in and make a mess of it.   

I can get as high as 23-26 in Quantum (maybe higher if rapids were under the same control as feeds), but files like this one won't run for me in Quantum (apparently due to the small segments/arcs).

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General Mach Discussion / Re: New CV features

« on: January 29, 2007, 11:16:18 PM »

No, this is only with Quantum.  They run fine with 2.040, with the exception of corner rounding on the gun box.

I had to run some more of these gun boxes today and I thought that I had finally found a semi sweet spot as far as settings go back in December, but found that I was mistaken.  I've been making these for a few years now, and I had the actual gun in hand when I made the first one and knew that it fit just fine back then.  Well, I had the same type of gun in hand today in order to make a little adjustment for a slightly different front sight.  Other than that, everything was the same.  I made the adjustment and ran the gun pocket as usual.  To my dismay, I find out now (after making a pile of these before Christmas) that corner rounding has changed the profile so much that the gun no longer fits properly! Same file as in the past,  just a different post processor to generate g-code instead.

Man, this is gettin' old! 

I'm done whining now.