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Video P*r*o*b*i*n*g / Re: Photos of webcam scanner. ( no laughing.. :) )

« on: April 14, 2008, 01:22:53 AM »

Hi, Sid

Looks like your doing pretty good with this, Hears the pic of Ports Pins, Mill Options for X,Y,Z, Coordinates letters addition.

Not sure MachCloud will load them though.

Thanks, Chip

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Importing BMP or JPG files? - No option in my menu.....

« on: April 14, 2008, 12:18:17 AM »

Hi, Ed

When LazyCam came out, BMP, JPG and DXF importing was transfered to LazyCam.

There is a standalone importer that the earlier ver. of Mach3 used that should still work I think.

Maybe someone nows what Ver. it was in, I'll look around some.

Thanks, Chip

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Calibration???

« on: April 13, 2008, 07:01:10 PM »

Hi, Biotech1

So what's the, "real crappy on the other..." values.

Not to much info in your post to work with, Is it Backlash, Flex.

Thanks, Chip

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Help

« on: April 13, 2008, 06:42:03 PM »

Hi Tom

Click on the Feed-rate DRO and set the value to your Velocity setting in your Motor Tuning page.

Hit the TAB key and set the Slow Jog Rate to 100%.

Should Help, Chip

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General Mach Discussion / Re: big problem mach3 cnc

« on: April 13, 2008, 01:11:37 PM »

Hi, Ian

His comment "I'm plugged the card on the parallel port", True the Pic doesn't show it.

Gotta-Start-Somewhere, Could be it.

Thanks, Chip

Ooop's, Left out the Welcome-Aboard "Stirling" !!

Chip

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General Mach Discussion / Re: big problem mach3 cnc

« on: April 13, 2008, 12:29:52 PM »

Hi, Jayls

Tell us about your computer, Have you checked Port address and made sure it set to the proper address, 0378 is standard, But your's may be different.

See pic. below.

Hope this Helps, Chip

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LazyCam (Beta) / Re: LazyCam, post and other questions

« on: April 13, 2008, 01:02:02 AM »

Hi, Mike

The Mill Example.pst is in the Zip file I posted above "LazyCams Docs.Zip".

The ****************ProgramStart************** are separators used by the .pst files.

If you edit out the *********ToolChange********* content it shouldn't put them in your post's

M5 M9 'Turn the spindle and coolant off
M6 T{TOOLNUM} (TOOLChange) 'toolchange and put a note in the code that it is a ToolChange
G43 H{TOOLNUM} 'Put in the Tool length offset and it is the same number as the ToolNUm

Give it a try.

Hears the content of Mill Example.pst, Below.

*******************************ProgramStart**********************************

(Program posted with TestPost.pst)


********************************ToolChange***********************************

M5 M9 'Turn the spindle and coolant off
M6 T{TOOLNUM} (TOOLChange) 'toolchange and put a note in the code that it is a ToolChange
G43 H{TOOLNUM} 'Put in the Tool length offset and it is the same number as the ToolNUm


********************************ChainStart***********************************


***********************************Rapid*************************************

[ G{MODE}(This is a rapid) ][ Z{RAPIDHEIGHT}]  'This will pick the Z up to the rapidheight
'and with the []'s if the data in the []'s has not changed it will not be put out

'you can have white space and a note that is not on a Gcode line

[G{MODE}][ X{XPOS}][ Y{YPOS}] 'Now move to the X and Y pos that
[{SPINDLEON}] 'Turn on the spindle and if it is on don't put out the M3
[G{MODE}][ Z{ZPOS}] 'Move down to the height that the move was to end at


***********************************ZRapid************************************
'This is a Z only move to change the hieght of the tool.. this could be changed
'to {RAPIDHEIGHT} but the jobs will take longer to cut
 
[G{MODE}] Z{ZPOS}


************************************Line**************************************

[G{MODE}][ X{XPOS}][ Y{YPOS}] [Z{ZPOS}] [F{FEED}]


************************************Arc***************************************

[G{MODE}][ X{XPOS}][ Y{YPOS}][ Z{ZPOS}] I{IPOS} J{JPOS}[ F{FEED}]


********************************CanCycleStart*********************************

G{MODE} X{XPOS} Y{YPOS} Z{ZPOS} R{RAPIDHEIGHT} F{FEED}


**********************************InCanCycle**********************************

[X{XPOS}][ Y{YPOS}]


**********************************CanCycleEnd*********************************

G{MODE}


************************************ChainEnd**********************************


**********************************ProgramEnd**********************************

G{MODE} Z{RAPIDHEIGHT}


Hope this Helps, Chip

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LazyCam (Beta) / Re: LazyCam, post and other questions

« on: April 10, 2008, 07:48:20 PM »

Hi, Mike

LazyCam has a "Default" Post built into it, Use "Set Post Processor" in Setup menu, Find and load it "Mill Example.PSt"

Hears what I did, Put in ;##--------------------------- note's to show what was being used and how it was being posted.


*******************************ProgramStart**********************************

;1---------------(Program posted with TestPost.pst)


********************************ToolChange***********************************

M5 M9 ;2----------'Turn the spindle and coolant off
M6 T ;3---------------{TOOLNUM} (TOOLChange) 'toolchange and put a note in the code that it is a ToolChange
G43 H ;4----------{TOOLNUM} 'Put in the Tool length offset and it is the same number as the ToolNUm


********************************ChainStart***********************************


***********************************Rapid*************************************

[ G{MODE} ][ Z{RAPIDHEIGHT}]  ;5-------------------(This is a rapid)'This will pick the Z up to the rapidheight
'and with the []'s if the data in the []'s has not changed it will not be put out

'you can have white space and a note that is not on a Gcode line

[G{MODE}][ X{XPOS}][ Y{YPOS}] ;6--------'Now move to the X and Y pos that
[{SPINDLEON}] ;7--------- 'Turn on the spindle and if it is on don't put out the M3
[G{MODE}][ Z{ZPOS}] ;8--------'Move down to the height that the move was to end at


***********************************ZRapid************************************
'This is a Z only move to change the hieght of the tool.. this could be changed
'to {RAPIDHEIGHT} but the jobs will take longer to cut
 
[G{MODE}] Z{ZPOS} ;9-------------


************************************Line**************************************

Your G-code will look like this and help you see what's going on.

N5 ;1---------------(Program posted with TestPost.pst)
N10 M5 M9 ;2----------
N15 M6 T1 ;3---------------1 (TOOLChange)
N20 G43 H ;4----------1
N25 ; 4A ChainStart------------
N30  G0   Z1.0000   ;5-------------------(This is a rapid)
N35  X4.3750  Y27.5000  ;6--------
N40 M3 ;7---------
N45  ;8--------
N50 G1  Z-0.5000  F50.00  ;10------------
N55 X4.3750 Y26.8750   F200.00  ;10------------
N60 X4.3750 Y25.6250    ;10------------
N65 X4.1250    ;10------------
N70 X4.1250 Y28.1250    ;10------------
N75 X4.3750    ;10------------
N80 Y27.5000    ;10------------
N85 X4.7500    ;10------------
N90 X4.7500 Y26.8750    ;10------------
N95 X4.7500 Y25.2500    ;10------------
N100 X3.7500    ;10------------
N105 X3.7500 Y28.5000    ;10------------
N110 X4.7500 Y28.5000    ;10------------
N115 X4.7500 Y27.5000    ;10------------


Ver. 3.00.39 has some fixes, But 3.00.40 should be out soon, Nothing to do with LC though.

Thanks, Chip

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LazyCam (Beta) / Re: LazyCam, post and other questions

« on: April 10, 2008, 05:01:24 PM »

Hi, Mike

What ver. of Mach3 are you using, Help About will tell you.

Maybe thy were files I added to the sub-Dir, Hear thy are below.

Thanks, Chip

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Rapid movement problem

« on: April 08, 2008, 10:59:19 PM »

Hi, Chris64

What your looking for is a steady "Pulse Frequency" and pretty stable "Time in int" values.

The Buffer Load % is cpu load dealing with executing your G-code and Queue Depth is G-code Look-ahead.

Erratic/un-evenly spaced spikes in Driver Test are signes of issues, How do thy Look.

Thanks, Chip