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General Mach Discussion / Re: ATC for lathe

« on: September 13, 2007, 06:39:06 PM »

Hi Chris,

if you look in the macro code you will see "G04 P250" this is a 250 micro second delay if you have your general config set for micro seconds, you must have yours set to seconds, all you need to do is change the P250 to P.25

Graham.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Prox sensors - will these work with mach setup

« on: September 13, 2007, 03:32:00 PM »

Its an odd one that the link is correct, but the! in the link seems to confuse the browser, cutting and pasting seems to work.

Graham.

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General Mach Discussion / Prox sensors - will these work with mach setup

« on: September 13, 2007, 02:34:14 PM »

Hi all,

my turn for some help,

I have 2 of these prox sensors

"http://www.ifmefector.com/ifmus/web/dsfs!IE5222.html"

What I want to know is how would I connect them up to my bob as homing sensors, the 2 wire setup is confusing me, 3 wires I can understand.

Graham.

1934

General Mach Discussion / Re: What replaces G79 for Mach3?

« on: September 11, 2007, 12:01:48 PM »

Machs drilling cycle is G81 Znnn Rnnn Fnnn, you can do a replace of the G79's

Znnn final Z depth
Rnnn Rapid point above work face
Fnnn feed rate

Graham.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: ATC for lathe

« on: September 11, 2007, 02:54:39 AM »

Hi Chris,

it is now 9 posts down the list.

Graham.

1936

G-Code, CAD, and CAM discussions / Re: Newbie Can't Get Files into Mach

« on: September 10, 2007, 07:20:26 PM »

Hi,

I have had a look at your files and the DXF files are a bit odd, I think you have output it as splines and LC will not work with splines, output line segments and all should be well. I have converted them and run some code off them, here they are for you to try out.

Graham.

1937

G-Code, CAD, and CAM discussions / Re: Another New Guy - Need to know a good G-code/CAD program to buy

« on: September 10, 2007, 06:43:22 PM »

your 2D drawings can be done with LazyCAM, that is included with Mach3, all you have to do is export the drawing from Autocad as a DXF file and lazycam will make gcode from it.  As for 3D its a mine field, what is easy for one is not always so for another.  Best thing is to down load some demo's and have a go.  look at Bobcad, Rhino, Alphacam, mastercam, and onecnc, price will probably dictate your end result.

Graham.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: ATC for lathe

« on: September 10, 2007, 05:13:55 PM »

I have turned the macro into a .ZIP file for ease of updates, down load this one and give it a try.

I have just set up Turn and tried the latest version on it and it is working OK.

I have set it to work on the X axis so you can see numbers change.

It moves 100 units per tool, so if you enter T0101 to start with it moves to X110.0000 then to X100.00.

Looking Good

Graham.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: ATC for lathe

« on: September 10, 2007, 04:48:45 PM »

No the code only runs the turret one way round, there is no short path coded into it.

Graham.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: ATC for lathe

« on: September 10, 2007, 04:38:04 PM »

I am not sure it will work, as I have no way to try it out at the moment, I will set up Mach lathe and try to get it to work on screen.

Graham.