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General Mach Discussion / x and y movement confusen

« on: December 17, 2013, 03:04:13 PM »

I am confused of the movement on my mill. (Mach 3 settup) I espect the spindle  to go to the left (+ postiv dir.) when I press the left arror, put +10x in the dro and then "go to zero" and put g0x10 in the MDI. The same in the y direction (+ posetiv dir. away from me {or up}).
But this is what is happening in the x dir.:

Press left arrow spindle move to left (OK)
Enter +10 in x DRO, spindle move to left (OK)
Enter g0x10 in MDI, spindle move to right (?)

In the y dir, this is what happen:
Press up arrow spindle move up (OK)
Enter +10 in y DRO, spindle moves down (?)
Enter g0y10 in MDI, spindle moves up (OK)

How can I correct this? My mill is working well, but it is confusing to remember this and its easy to go wrong.

Thanks for any help

Johannes

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Mach SDK plugin questions and answers. / Re: Lost plugin help

« on: October 09, 2013, 01:52:38 PM »

Managet to get the "Plugin Klaus" to work after some trying and failure. Thanks.
Is there a manuale or something to tell how to use the plugin? I seems to remember that it should bee posible to center an object optical?
Anyhow thanks a lot to get me going

Sivtek

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Mach SDK plugin questions and answers. / Re: Lost plugin help

« on: October 09, 2013, 08:47:22 AM »

Thanks Brett

I reinstalled Mach3 and all is fine.
But how do you get the "Plugin Klaus" to work? I have installed the plugin but only the standard video window showes (Brians).

Sivtek

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Mach SDK plugin questions and answers. / Lost plugin help

« on: October 08, 2013, 02:29:57 PM »

I am unable to get my logitec veb camara to work with Mach3. I used to bee able to hit the "plugin control" botten on the Mach3 screen and then the "Video Window" and got up the picture on the screen, but not now.
What to do? Should I reinstall Mach3?
Any help will be appriciated!

Regards
sivtek

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LazyTurn / Re: Tool change

« on: May 14, 2013, 08:00:17 AM »

Thanks.

A lot to bee confuset of. I will start at the bginning an se how I manages.

Sivtek

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LazyTurn / Re: Tool change

« on: May 11, 2013, 04:34:46 AM »

Thanks a Lot!  - It was sett to "ignore tool change"

But, another question. How to select the tool from the tooltable? I have the tool numbered in my CamBam program (1,2,....). In the Mach3Turn tooltable I load the same tools and do the "touch" and "apply". Then when I run the program it is indicating "Tool No 0", not 1 or 2 or the tool used.

Thanks

sivtek

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LazyTurn / Tool change

« on: May 10, 2013, 01:59:48 PM »

Hi, need some help!

I am drawing a pice in my TurboCad drawing program and save as DXF file. Import the drawing to my CamBam program and choose to use different tool for the finniching cut. I specfy tool no. 2and 3. Put the stock in the lathe and run the nc program made in CamBam and inported to Mach3Turn. All OK but the Mac3Turn do not stopp after the first cut (tool2) but moves on as tool 3 was monted without stopping so not to bee ble to change the tool. I tryed to put the tool info into the "ToolTable" without any difference.

I am using the same prosedure using my Mach3Mil - the mill always stop so I can change the tool when the program asks for it.
What am I doing wrong?

Thanks sivtek

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Unable to load my NC-File

« on: March 23, 2012, 07:33:21 AM »

Hi

Fixed the shortcut as you said, and it is OK now.
But a funny thing happend after I had made the shortcut, MyMill took over the load button so I had to rename that button to MyMill. I thought that a new button would appear? But I am happy, thanks again.

Sivtek

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Unable to load my NC-File

« on: March 22, 2012, 05:28:20 PM »

Thanks, will try that to morrow,- think i will manage alright

Sivtek

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Unable to load my NC-File

« on: March 22, 2012, 04:45:35 PM »

Yip pi, I manget to get it working again. Delited ALL the mxl files, also the backups mxl files and installed the MACH3 again. Then I installed the mxl files supplied with my mill, a littel bit of fintuning and all is OK.
Jut another little question. I am trying to make my own profile this time and have managed to clone a new one called "MyMill". MyMill is under the Mach3 loader and I want to make a shortcut to it. Put it on the desktop, but is unable to do this. Have read the instruction but can not figure it out. Nothing happen when i rightclick MyMill as in the instruction. Can some guide me?

Thanks a lot Hood for your afford trying to help me.

Regards

Sivtek