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Holy Cow!!!   :o   That was fast!  I'm glad you found it and I'll wait for a fix- hopefully soon.

Thanks a lot !

Sid

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I am using the standard screen set that comes w/ M3 and No Macro Pump.  I understand what you are talking about re: the transfer thing because whenever I click 'last Wizard' (when using the write wizard) my Start X DRO in the wizard updates to some random number (I think it's the current X location PLUS the last entered value in X Start) regardless of the fact that I have 'save settings' and save settings on exit' selected.  Interestingly, the Y start DRO always remains the same.

Don't know if the helps point you in the right direction?  I HTH?

Thanks Amigo!
Sid

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Write, Surface & Shapes (I think I was cutting a polygon out of fowm).  It seemed to be happening in any wizard that gave an option to enter a rapid height (i.e. the Teach wizard doesn't offer that option so I didn't have the rapid height entry problem)

FYI, I have M3 loaded on my puter @ home for design file testing purposes and I AM able to enter rapid height values and get them to stick.  This is really weird because my machine @ home is set up totally wrong for M3 (i.e. Quicktime is installed, all kinds of crap riuning in the background, Dual P4 Processor), yet everything just hums along like a champ.

Ahhhh the joys of debugging....  Like I said Brian, not a 'show stopper'.  It was just annoying because I was doing a lot of dif cuts yesterday and having the Z rapid stuck on 0.0 meant I had to edit the code and replace the 0.0 with my actual of -3.5 in order to save Z up/down time.  I forgot to do the edit about 50% of the time and stood there like a dummy watching my Z do it's up/down dance.  We all have our crosses to bear eh?  Thanks for your help!

Happy Holidays,
Sid

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Actually I think I noticed this a couple of versions ago but never got around to mentioning anything.  Today it got really annoying and here I am...

I can't get my rapid heights (in any wizard) to do anything but 0.00 (Yes, I have used the enter key).  Z Top,  Depth, everything else- No Prob.  Put that rapid is hurtin me BAD!

Also, I keep getting error messages, then the Debug VB Script window pops up after Mach sees a S command.  The file runs OK but, I have to close the VB Script Debug window.

None of this a show stopper but, I was wondering if it was just me or if others had found a workaround yet?

Thanks,
Sid

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Funny cut
« on: December 09, 2006, 11:56:03 AM »
That's funny!  What did you use to make the G-Code?  Do you have/use V-Carve?  Or something else?

Regards,
Sid

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Error on Install of Ver 2.0.23
« on: December 07, 2006, 09:54:43 PM »
Nevermind... download error. 1st try I only got 8.5Mb

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General Mach Discussion / Error on Install of Ver 2.0.23
« on: December 07, 2006, 09:49:20 PM »
Anybody else seing this error message or am I just special?  Ver 2.0.22 installed just fine yesterday.  Wassup?

Thanks,
Sid

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LazyCam (Beta) / Re: Pimp my Lcam
« on: November 28, 2006, 07:31:41 PM »
Downloaded 2.17 update today and although the version of LCAM still says 3.12 I can see that it has been updated as well. THANK YOU VERY VERY VERY VERY much for the change on the viewing (or lack thereof) on disabled layers.  Can I consider it an early X-mas present?  You guys are the best!

Regards,
Sid

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LazyCam (Beta) / Re: Pimp my Lcam
« on: November 26, 2006, 12:01:21 PM »
Hey Brian,

Not really sure why the old layer system wasn't working for most users.  Did ppl complain about it?  I can't imagine why, it was VERY similar to the layer control system used in AUTOCAD.  I liked the old system and had no problem at all with it.

Unfortuneately, for me this new layer system is a big step backwards for my purposes and creates some new challenges for me to think about.  Here's what I'm experiencing...

I am making signs using a company name, a logo and a person's name.  On each sign I have to change the name of the individual but the Company Name and Logo stay the same.  Essentially we are talking about 3 layers...

1. Company Name- Tool, Cut, Depth, Etc #1
2. Company Logo-  Tool, Cut, Depth, Etc #2
3. Person's Name- Tool, Cut, Depth, Etc #3

Layer 1 & 2 stay the same for every sign, yet layer 3 changes.  I create a new layer in Autocad with the new person's name and use that new name/ layer in place of the old.

After a while I have a LOT of layers (names) cluttering up that area of the file and the only way to make sense of things is to hide what is not being cut.  Ghost images just won't do it.

As always there are workarounds.  I could create a gazillion Autocad files each with a different persons name (Although HD space is cheap these days, I find this method kind of ineffecient).   Or Delete Chains as they are brought into LCAM and Save my Code files independentally.  This is different then the way I use to do it and I suppose I just need to adapt.  It was easy before to just have 1 .dxf file with everything in it and I could manipulate in LCAM to get the cut I wanted.  Now, it looks like I have to take extra steps and I was hoping that the new release would make my life easier, not more complicated. 

Thanks again for all of your efforts.

Regards,
Sid

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LazyCam (Beta) / Re: Pimp my Lcam
« on: November 22, 2006, 10:15:06 PM »
The latest ver I have run is 3.12.  Thanks for adding the ability to show/hide properties dialogs and adding the ability to make a layer(s) disabled.  However, it's not really clear what is disabled and what is enabled.  IMHO when a layer is disabled it should NOT be visible, otherwise it is just confusing.  Also in the old style .dxf conversion included with the good ol 1.84 ver layer colors created by the .dxf program (in my case ACAD 2002) were preserved so it was easy to associate your layers with your CAD file layers.  It would be nice to see that in LCAM also.  Perhaps this isn't possible because LCAM should arcs and lines as diff colors and this would probably conflict with layer colors but what do I know?  Just my $.02  Thanks for all the great improvements!

Sid

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