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2931

General Mach Discussion / Re: Question about MPG sittings

« on: May 24, 2006, 07:23:33 PM »

Change the A and B pins under the ports and pins... Change it in mill only and you should be okay.

2932

General Mach Discussion / Re: Jog continuous/incremental button

« on: May 24, 2006, 02:56:14 PM »

If you are using an emulator you can do this by setting the Hotkey of the Button in screen4 to the keystroke that is coming in from the emulator...

is that any help?
Brian

2933

General Mach Discussion / Re: Set tool length

« on: May 24, 2006, 02:53:14 PM »

Try this script and please test this in the air.

Zpos = GetDRO(2)
Code ("G31 Z" & Zpos -1.00 & " F10.0") 'Probe  down one unit
Zpos = GetVar(2002) 'Get the point where the probe hit
Code ("G00 Z" & Zpos) 'Rapid to where the probe hit
while Ismoving()
Wend
Call SetDRO(2,0)'Set the Z to zero

Thanks
 Brian

2934

General Mach Discussion / Re: Motor tuning question

« on: May 24, 2006, 02:48:02 PM »

Okay 24 

2935

General Mach Discussion / Re: Motor tuning question

« on: May 24, 2006, 12:01:00 PM »

Take the voltage up to about 60V and I think it will help you with you rapids

2936

General Mach Discussion / Re: Trouble activating relay thru breakout board.

« on: May 24, 2006, 10:17:01 AM »

Did you set the ports and pins?

2937

General Mach Discussion / Re: feed & plunge rates for Aluminum

« on: May 24, 2006, 10:15:28 AM »

There is a Feed and Speed Calc in Mach3 under the wizards. The 250 is FPM (Feet Per Min) and the .005-.002 is the chip load per tooth. use this formula 3.82 * FPM/Dia = RPM 3.82*250/.25 = 3820 RPM and if the cutter had 2 cutting tips the feed would be CuttingTips*RPM*Feedpertooth = IPM (Feed rate) 2*3820*.0025 = 19.1IPM

How is that

Brian

2938

General Mach Discussion / Re: Testing Mach3 with difficulties

« on: May 24, 2006, 08:19:26 AM »

Redraw the tool path and I think it will be okay...

2939

General Mach Discussion / Re: Combining various vbscript and gcode into a file versus a button

« on: May 23, 2006, 10:32:20 PM »

You have to put the macro in the Mach3/macros/mach3Mill folder.. you can hide the Macro with windows

hope that helps
Brian

2940

General Mach Discussion / Re: Set tool length

« on: May 23, 2006, 10:29:57 PM »

There is a video that will tell you one way to do a tool setter... After you have tooled at that you are free to post here and I will help you get it working the way you would like. There are MANY ways to set one up...


Thank you and look forward to getting it working for you
Brian