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G-Code, CAD, and CAM discussions / Re: MachIII GCode Leadin questions

« on: April 23, 2013, 09:56:05 AM »

OK - as you haven't posted your code (except for your tiny snippet) I can't show you where the leadins are but using my crystal ball I see you set at least one of your straight leadins to be 1/10th of an inch long. Nope - sorry - I just can't see your arc leadins - must be losing my touch - or need a new crystal ball maybe...

Hint: the ONE leadin you have shown us is line N850

Ian

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Is my PC too slow or...?

« on: April 23, 2013, 06:57:40 AM »

No worries - It makes a refreshing change to have someone ask a question and who then SUPPORTS and THANKS the people who take the time to try to help them. Any time Mihael.

Ian

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VB and the development of wizards / Re: Macro Linear move help

« on: April 23, 2013, 06:49:35 AM »

You need to pass the X and Z values as parameters to your macro.
Your M178 Z3 X2 does not do this - it calls M178 with no parameters and executes Z3 X2 with whatever modal movement command (if any) is currently active.
See section 4.4.5 in the Customizing Mach2 document.

Ian

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Is my PC too slow or...?

« on: April 23, 2013, 03:22:36 AM »

OK - tried 43.22 - no go, 42.40 - no go. The latest version that works is the one I started out with i.e. 42.20.

Ian

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Is my PC too slow or...?

« on: April 22, 2013, 01:55:54 PM »

will do but it'll have to wait till tomorrow - unfortunately I have to go out and drink some beer!

Ian

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Is my PC too slow or...?

« on: April 22, 2013, 01:32:01 PM »

Yep - looking like you're absolutely right Hood. With 43.63 I get exactly the same problem.

Ian

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Is my PC too slow or...?

« on: April 22, 2013, 01:21:44 PM »

I'll whack 43.62 on it and get back

Ian

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Is my PC too slow or...?

« on: April 22, 2013, 01:03:37 PM »

Hi Hood, on the machine in the vid I'm using 42.20. (never got round to updating it)

Coincidentally I have an eye on CV being "the problem". (or more to the point a MYTH about CV being the problem).

When Mihael asked me to post my xml I did a quick compare of mine and his. There's basically just one difference. I notice he has "Stop on CV angles > 89.9"

Mihael please turn this off (untick it in general config) and try your toolpath again.

Ian

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Newbie Questions

« on: April 21, 2013, 06:04:43 AM »

You can do what you've described no problem at all in sheetcam. I'm afraid it's RTFM though because it's all in there.

Here's an example pic of a sheetcam setup where I've set up my table size, my stock size and nested 3 (.dxf) parts.


Ian

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Is my PC too slow or...?

« on: April 21, 2013, 04:07:10 AM »

CV is plain "Mach out of the box" - lookahead 20, everything else off. System is an old AMD 1.5GHz / 512MB with onboard graphics and parallel port.

Ian