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Show"N"Tell ( Your Machines) / Re: Waynes Leadwell VMC Retrofit
« on: May 11, 2006, 11:29:17 PM »
 ;D

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General Mach Discussion / Re: New guy needs help!
« on: May 11, 2006, 11:25:52 PM »
Hey Brian!

Where to find out more info on PMDX board?  Is that a Gecko product?

Regards,
Sid

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Exact homing
« on: May 10, 2006, 08:12:53 PM »
I don't have Servo motors so maybe I don't understand something you are describing but, if you have Servos with Encoders don't the encoders always tell you exactly where you are?  If that is true then why don't you just set up your home position as X 0.000 Y. 0.000 & Z 0.000 then use a Go To Zero command to get to the home position.  You will be in the same place (home) every time.  Or did I misunderstand your question?

Regards,
Sid

P.s. your English is pretty good!

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General Mach Discussion / Re: PROBLEM WITH MOVING TO LIMITS
« on: May 10, 2006, 06:29:42 PM »
AWESOME!  Happy I could help!

Regards,
Sid

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General Mach Discussion / Re: PROBLEM WITH MOVING TO LIMITS
« on: May 09, 2006, 09:16:22 PM »
WOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOOO!  After asking for advice from others for about 2 months now, I am VERY HAPPY to be able to finally help someone else!  Cool!   ;D

I think you should download/watch the video on the macsupport.com site for Homing and Limits.  It's a good video and you will learn a lot about it in 20 minutes!

There is another thread on debounce (try a search for debounce).  Quick explanation, it helps to move your'e machine OFF of the home switch after you reach the home position.  My machine would go home and get stuck on the home switch instead of moving a little bit off of the switch.  If you're sitting on the home switch, you have a problem and need to fix it (maybe with debounce).

The whole dxf to g-code conversion is a  pretty magical and mysterious process to me.  But, I can tell you that I have noiticed when I have converted things, it treats the feed rate for X & Y different than the Z (Cutter up/down) axis.  Usually it asks you (when you are converting) for the feed rate for X & Y and the Z is a separate feed rate value.  Usually you can enter these values and the converter will add these values into the converted code.  It makes things a little confusing if you;re a beginner but it's cool to have it do that for you later when you want to have that control.

Anyway, when I first started, I wanted to keep everything simple so, I just used the edit G-Code button, went to the edit menu and did a find & replace and changed the F value to what I wanted it to be. 

Example...  If the F value for X & Y = 3, you will probably see this over and over in the G-Code something like

G01 X5.25 Y 2.00 F3.00  and if the F value for the Z axis = 1 you will see stuff like this..

G01 Z -.05 F1.00

To change I would use the replace and look for F3.00 and replace it with F40.00.  Do a replace all and it will change all the F values.  You can then do the same for the Z.

Sorry for the long explanation but I don't know how else to say/type it.

Hope that helps,
Sid

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General Mach Discussion / Re: PROBLEM WITH MOVING TO LIMITS
« on: May 09, 2006, 06:17:16 PM »
I'm not an expert but, I'll give a couple of your problems a try...

When you try and go to the home position does which direction does your machine move?  Perhaps you need to check the Home Neg box under Config->Homing/Limits

When you run the G-Code you converted from DXF did you set a Feed Rate?  You probably are runing at the default value that appears when Mach3 Starts.  This value is 6 (on my machine) and that is slow.  Try changing the F value in the Feed Rate section of the screen.

You can not change the scale in the DRO's you are referring to.  You need to do it with a G51 Command in your program file.  If you want it bigger you have to add something like this G51 X1.1 Y 1.1      Don't include Z if you are happy with the cutting depth.

Computer Clock Problems I think happen when you have Quicktime (QTtaskj) installed/runing on your machine.  Kill it and things should be better.  If that doesn't work, you should probably run the optimization file that you can get at the Artsoft site.

Hope that helps.  Good Luck.

Sid

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2 requests please.

1.  A Goto Z button
2. A DRO for Safe Z

Thanks!

Sid

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Success!  I got a PM from Zealouse which suggested re-downloading and installing version 1.9.xx .   I did that and it works perfectly- Thanks for your continued assistance and nice job, the set rocks!

Regards,
Sid

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Zealouse,

To Clarify...  You are saying that It is a REQUIREMENT to be runing  Mach 3 Ver 1.9 in order for the screen set to work?  If so, Thanks but I already told you in a previous post, I already tried installing on a machine that was runing Mach 3 ver 1.9 (Dev), it still doesn't load correctly.

I have a crapload of ram on the video card and in the computer
I have downloaded other screen sets and they have worked OK, just not yours
I imagine from their comments that Art, Brian and Benny and a couple others have downloaded and installed your set

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Hey,  I just downloaded again (From your 2nd link) and tried on another machine runing ver 1.9.  It worked better but check out the pic of what I got.  It's not the same as the pic you posted.  Some stuff is there, some isn't- weird!!!

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