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General Mach Discussion / Re: Introducing a break in the machining job

« on: February 27, 2007, 12:07:00 AM »

I would add a few places in the code to look at the tool and so on. It is simple to add in the code for that and you will then know where the tool is going to pull out.

PS you are going to need an M0

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Show"N"Tell ( Your Machines) / Re: First Post, First Machine, LOTS of questions

« on: February 26, 2007, 11:50:47 PM »

If you are going to do a control like that you need to look at the Galil cards.. you could keep all the old amps in the machine (that are not all that old).

You should be able to get a 4 axis version for about 1200 and you will have a full closed loop controle.

hope that helps
Brian

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General Mach Discussion / Re: motors chatter

« on: February 26, 2007, 11:45:50 PM »

also you can check Sherline mode under the ports and pins... that will give you a much longer pulse for your opto's

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Wild Rotory

« on: February 26, 2007, 11:43:23 PM »

All I see is the "Z inhibit" button. Thats it, just a button. No settings for how much of a depth or how many passes.

I thought I saw the settings in a page somewhere but after two hours of hunting and not finding it, I figured I had better ask.

Art really really did a good job on the 4th axis toolpath.

There is a multi pass wizard that will make a new file with the Passes at the right depths

It worked well last time I tested it...

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General Mach Discussion / Re: hello everybody - motor drive question

« on: February 26, 2007, 11:40:34 PM »

If you need to have 200 KHz the G100 from Gecko drive should get you what you need

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Does Mach support multiple MPGs for multiple axis?

« on: February 26, 2007, 11:38:49 PM »

You can run 3 at one time if you like  you just need one more hand...

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General Mach Discussion / Re: version 2.00.049 strange behaviour

« on: February 26, 2007, 11:37:55 PM »

I think I saw that on the yahoo forum as well ... it is a bug and I think it is fixed You were good to get that one, I think it was up for less then 2 hours!

It is so hard to fix problems and not make more....

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General Mach Discussion / Re: video window camera- optical positioning/measuring -

« on: February 26, 2007, 11:34:34 PM »

Brett are you going to turn on the spindle and cut the chips out? hmmm Ron's CopyCat wizard would help you with the program for that

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Help Using Mach 3...

« on: February 26, 2007, 11:31:25 PM »

I don't have time at this time to change over your XML... But if you install Mach3 (Newest rev) it should tell you that it is going to convert your XML! Art added that the other day and it should get about 80% of the settings for you.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Machine loosing Coordinates

« on: February 26, 2007, 11:28:38 PM »

Did you find the problem? It sounds to me like you have a noise problem... IF you didn't get it fixed please feel free to post more info about your machine