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General Mach Discussion / Re: simultaneous homing?
« on: September 13, 2007, 06:09:06 AM »
thanks hood. I'll try the latest V first as I could do with the apparantly fixed CV (as of the 5th this month). Though I just checked the revision list and there's no mention of it so we'll see) Hopefully the limits will work as well.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: simultaneous homing?
« on: September 12, 2007, 01:27:15 PM »
Thought you might say that but was hoping you wouldn't... I did upgrade a while back but limits don't work properly and yet they're fine in 1.84.002 (http://www.artsoftcontrols.com/forum/index.php?topic=3562.0) so I downgraded again...

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General Mach Discussion / Re: simultaneous homing?
« on: September 12, 2007, 12:45:44 PM »
Nope....


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General Mach Discussion / Re: simultaneous homing?
« on: September 12, 2007, 12:10:30 PM »
Ta B.

Before I give it a go - what V Mach are you using - I'm on 1.84.002 and there's no Operator/Edit button script.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: simultaneous homing?
« on: September 12, 2007, 11:46:05 AM »
Thanks Brian - According to the manual: this function was deprecated back in M2 as more general ways are now available. Don't know obviously if that's actually the case. Anyway, I just tested it in the VB editor but obviously I don't want to have to do that every time so... any suggestions where I should stick it? - careful... I'd like to be able to have it completely transparant i.e. both for ref all home and G20,30 etc.

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General Mach Discussion / simultaneous homing?
« on: September 12, 2007, 10:12:23 AM »
Is this possible in mach or does it only home sequentially?

thanks

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General Mach Discussion / Re: steps per rev
« on: September 12, 2007, 08:29:16 AM »
hey drut

just looked at your driver and motor specs and I think what you mean is that you're currently running them at 2 microsteps/real step hence your 400 MICROsteps/rev. So I think you mean you want to try them at 8 microsteps/real step i.e. 1600 microsteps/rev - yes? If so - no problem - you could run them at their max 125 microsteps/real step or 25000 steps/rev if you want to with no fear of damage - mind at Mach3's max default pulse rate (25KHz) that would mean the best you'd get would be 1 rev/sec...

If you do change your microstepping ratio then of course Brett's figures will tell you what to change your "steps per" to in motor tuning but just for quickies sake if you shift from 2 to 8 then you'd change your steps per to 4 times whatever you have it at now to keep things the same.

So... "will you damage them" - No

"will they sound smoother"

Maybe... If the problem is something else then maybe not... :)

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General Mach Discussion / Re: PROBLEM ON MACH3 WITH AMD PROCESSOR
« on: September 05, 2007, 01:18:56 PM »
more likely be the fact that it's a portable than the amd proc. mach3 runs just fine on my sempron 2800 desktop.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Constant velocity
« on: September 04, 2007, 11:51:57 AM »
... but is trying to achieve somethings that cannot be achieved...

Sorry Jim (can I call you Jim :)) - I don't agree.

First, let's assume that we'll accept blending: As you say, when it comes to the rightangle we'll actually get an arc. Let's assume that arc is of radius theta - where theta will depend on the accel capabilities of the machine and the FR we're trying to achieve.

Now let's not accept blending: The machine (as you say again) must come to a stop momentarilly at the right angle. BUT- and here's the nub - if the radius of the other arc corners are greater than theta, we already know that the system can handle an arc of theta without slowing so there is absolutely no need for any slow down for the arcs. i.e. it should be perfectly possible to cut Andreas path with a stop at the rightangle and no slowdowns for the rest (which I think is what he wants and is expecting).

I do not see how the software can interpret what you want, unless you tell it, therefore you can make settings for  the norm, for example, constant velocity, but you would then have to tell the machine if you required anything different for a particular corner.

And that is exactly what all the CV settings are for. i.e. when CV should blend and when it should not. But here I think is the problem: I've noticed that all the CV settings are different depending on what version of Mach your using - which makes it really hard for us to talk about. Also the UG hasn't been updated to reflect the latest CV settings, so this tends to make them (to me anyway and I assume also to Anreas) virtually impossible to understand and to set correctly to get the desired result. Or maybe they just don't work that well even if you can find a way to set them up - I don't know.

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Promote and discuss your product / Re: UK cnc router site
« on: August 15, 2007, 09:37:08 AM »
That dull huh  ??? - Anyone else want to comment - go on - you know you want to  :P