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Show"N"Tell ( Your Machines) / Re: Yet another Retrofit. Hardinge HXL-S

« on: September 11, 2007, 10:41:39 PM »

Wayne,
I may need you to do a bit of testing of threading with an encoder... Tell me when you are going to be about ready and I will start that project (I need a month to get time to start)

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General Mach Discussion / Re: barcode reader

« on: September 11, 2007, 10:33:21 PM »

I was thinking the same thing

If I ever get time I think that would be a cool toy and I think there are a few OEM's that would like to have that ... have you seen a Barcoder that is not over 300.00?

thanks
Brian

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Letters as islands? (How to)

« on: September 11, 2007, 10:31:44 PM »

You need the pro version of Lcam to get the pocketing.... that should do it Come to  thinkf of it the newest rev you can test the pocketing but it will not output the Gcode.

thanks
Brian

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General Mach Discussion / Re: mach 3 and encoder

« on: September 11, 2007, 10:29:11 PM »

Rogers machine has a nice board for the encoders to hook into and most of the users only use about 250 - 500 count encoders.... a 500 line will give you 2000 PPR of the servo and that is as good as you are going to get from a stepper... Also have a look at US Digital for the encoders.

Hope that helps
Brian

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Controller for New Hermes Vanguard 3000 Engraver

« on: September 11, 2007, 10:26:25 PM »

Mike,
Nice looking little machine! I think you are going to like the CV of Mach on the machine it shoudl go a bit faster then it did in the past!

Thanks for the pics (looking forward to the video )
Brian

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General Mach Discussion / Re: will a video card help?

« on: September 11, 2007, 10:21:08 PM »

10MB files are a pain in the butt    There are users running files much bigge then that and they have to turn off the toolpath it is just to much for the poor computer to do

A new video card would help but I have no idea how much...

Thanks
Brian

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach 2, Continous Jog Not Functioning

« on: September 11, 2007, 10:15:16 PM »

What happens if you hold down shift and try to jog?
Thanks
Brian

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General Mach Discussion / Re: correctly tangential algorithm

« on: September 11, 2007, 10:13:28 PM »

All you need to do is have a look at the vector direction of each move and send that to the A axis to that angle... If the difference from one vector to the other is greater then the max angle we pick up the head and set it back down at the new angle... that is about all there is to it

Hope that is what you are looking for
Brian

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Lazycam plunge clearance problem

« on: September 11, 2007, 10:08:42 PM »

Have you tried changing the plunge clearance in the the new rev of lcam??? it is on the Posting Ops dialog.

thanks
Brian

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General Mach Discussion / Re: When loading program, I've noticed it doesn't display correctly until I REGEN

« on: September 11, 2007, 10:05:58 PM »

we are looking into this at this time... Thanks for the report
Brian