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General Mach Discussion / Re: G code

« on: October 14, 2008, 05:51:25 PM »

Hi Hille,

what size cutter do you have in the spindle, can you post your code here for me to look at.

Have you set your cutter on the top of the work piece and pressed z zero to set the z datum?

Graham

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Macros For Dummies

« on: October 11, 2008, 02:45:28 PM »

If you use the macropump it is run constantly from start up, it is polled about 40 times per second, all calls need to execute and exit as soon as possible to avoid slowing things down.  eg. no counter/delay loops, set pointers and move on, check on the next call.

Remember the macropump will allow silly things to happen if you do not interlock them out with your code.

Graham

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Macros For Dummies

« on: October 11, 2008, 02:26:36 PM »

If you load it by the VB script editor within Mill or Turn you can just save it back in the same place

Graham

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Macros For Dummies

« on: October 11, 2008, 12:21:34 PM »

If you want the functions to be live all the time then the macropump is where you will have to add the code.  Open up the vb editor and load it from there.  Make sure the macropump is turned on in config.

Graham

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Show"N"Tell ( Your Machines) / Re: Taig CNC mill

« on: October 06, 2008, 12:48:27 PM »

Very nice set up, thanks for sharing

Graham

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General Mach Discussion / Re: ATC Video I'm doing for Tormach!!

« on: October 06, 2008, 12:40:17 PM »

Hi Scott,

I am impressed, great example of what can be done with a bit of thought.

Graham

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Tool offsets in X and Y direction

« on: September 29, 2008, 03:06:46 PM »

Work offsets set up individual datums that can be used in many ways.

Lets say that your datum point for your torch is at X4.0 Y2.0 and Z-3. you would set these figures into G54 then in G55 you would put X5.0 Y4. Z-3.5 or what ever the centre distances were.

Then if you were using the torch the gcode would be started with G54 and if you are going to use the drill you would command G55.

You can change from one to the other at any point except with in a G52 local offset.

Your height offsets can be global or local to a particular work offsets.

Graham

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Tool offsets in X and Y direction

« on: September 29, 2008, 02:18:01 PM »

You could call one G54 and the other G55

Graham

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G-Code, CAD, and CAM discussions / Re: help with mach3

« on: September 28, 2008, 02:42:15 PM »

Have a look at this one :-

Graham

http://members.aol.com/m9685123/index.html

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G-Code, CAD, and CAM discussions / Re: Changing Y axis to A axis

« on: September 28, 2008, 02:39:21 PM »

you could go into ports and pins and assign pins from Y into A in a different profile.

Graham