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General Mach Discussion / Re: Proxxon MF70 and Mach3 setup...

« on: September 20, 2011, 03:15:33 PM »

If you load up the original control software it should give you all the pin in/outs in the machine configuration page, all you need to do is then assign them in Mach3's ports and pins.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: importing coordinate list

« on: September 20, 2011, 03:03:10 PM »

You can load the list into Mach if you modify the data.

Do a search and replace in a text editor, search the comma and replace with a Y then do a CR,LF search and replace with CR,LF,X (you may need to do a Special/Advanced search for this), this will give you g-code.

Add a G01 F100. on the first line and a M30 after the last line and you should get a profile in Mach.

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Newfangled Solutions Mach3 Wizards / Re: tooltable trouble

« on: September 20, 2011, 02:48:22 PM »

It is only recently that users could read data from the tool table so the older wizards will not have this included in them.  If you load the wizard and do a button script edit you can amend the code to take advantage of the new features.

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G-Code, CAD, and CAM discussions / Re: can't keep cnc on material

« on: September 19, 2011, 06:51:36 PM »

Runs off, what do you mean by that, is the profile the wrong shape, in the wrong place, wrong size or what?

Try this code, make sure you zero out the X&Y datums at the bottom left edge of the material.

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Show"N"Tell ( What you have made with your CNC machine.) / Re: 1/5th Scale V8 Blown

« on: September 05, 2011, 05:06:01 PM »

With reference to the insulators, just how small are these things are they a true 1/5th scale?

Graham

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General Mach Discussion / Re: need tech support will pay.

« on: August 29, 2011, 05:04:26 AM »

Some photos of your machines spindle head might help us to determine what you do and do not have.

Graham

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G-Code, CAD, and CAM discussions / Re: help cant load gcode

« on: August 13, 2011, 05:19:01 PM »

There is a drop down on the Mach3 open file window, click it and select .TXT

Graham

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Share Your GCode / Re: Dragon GCode

« on: July 25, 2011, 03:42:44 AM »

Download this program and run the code through it with the scale set at 0.9.

http://www.machsupport.com/forum/index.php/topic,2893.msg39920.html#msg39920

Graham

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Share Your GCode / Re: Dragon GCode

« on: July 24, 2011, 04:45:07 PM »

On the main screen you have scale entries next to the position dro,s click one of them and enter 0.9 and hit enter do this on both X & Y axis.

Graham

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G-Code, CAD, and CAM discussions / Re: HELP! Which CAM ?

« on: July 14, 2011, 10:25:37 AM »

SolidCAM is the product that integrates with Solidworks so that would be a good starting point.

Graham