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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach 3 Mist Control Problem
« on: March 12, 2006, 01:19:19 AM »
The default setting for the port # on the ports & pins output signals tab is port 0- I couldn't get my spindle relay to work until I set it to port #1.  Maybe that's it?


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Is this hard to do?  (add fonts using VB)?  Are there any plans for a "New Fangled Tex Wizard" That will allow font additions?

Thanks,
Sid

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach 3 Mist Control Problem
« on: March 11, 2006, 08:35:24 PM »
Have you looked on the "ports & Pins" setup menu?  There is a tab that says "Spindle Setup" and you have to uncheck the "disable relay" box and set the output number.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Homing in Mach 3
« on: March 10, 2006, 09:33:54 PM »
DUDES!!!

That fixed my problem (putting 100 in the debounce box)!  Thanks again (and again and again and again and again!!!)

Sid

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Homing in Mach 3
« on: March 10, 2006, 12:04:40 PM »
Larry, Thanks for the info.  The more I read & learn, the more I realize how much I have to learn.  I feel like Orville Wright walking into the cockpit of a space shuttle and I'm a bit jealous of most of you dudes who are so friggin' profecient at this stuff.  Anyway... I'd love to see a schematic- can you email to slshneider@hotmail.com please.

Thanks!

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Homing in Mach 3
« on: March 10, 2006, 01:12:29 AM »
Hey Brian,

What does "debounce" mean and how does one add it?

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Update... the computer was acting funny doing other things (i.e. connecting to the network here).  So I just decided to reinstall XP.  That seemed to help as I can now see part of a toolpath in the display.

Is there a limit to the amount of data Mach can display (i.e. if you had a gcode file that was 150,000 lines long would that bog things down and cause problems like this? 

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Sure Brian, Thanks for taking a closer look for me. 

The file is at the shop so, i'll send it tomorrow.  Other than the file is there anything else you can think of?  Bad video card or a problem in my O.S.?

Thanks again,
Sid

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It does display toolpaths on other files.  There is an error- "Pulley speed too fast, using max"

Weird. 

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Ah yes, the questions just keep on coming.  So, I downloaded the V-carve demo cause it looked pretty sweet.  Of course the first thing I tried was to convert my company's logo into G-code and that didn't work because you can only gcode the sample files until you pony up the coin for the registered version.

So... I load a demo file and convert to G-code.  Mach 3 likes it and DOES load the code and will start cutting the program but, it doest show the tool path in blue outline.  Whaddya think?  Bad video drivers?  Not enough memory (Geez, I have 1gb).  Help!

Thanks,
Sid

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