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General Mach Discussion / Rapids

« on: November 18, 2006, 07:50:05 AM »

Hi all

I have just got this boxford running on stepper motors, never used them before its always been servos.

my question is this :-

if I can jog at 750 units/min why wont it rapid at that under G00 command?, it stalls out

Graham.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: parts/cycle counter

« on: November 17, 2006, 04:04:26 AM »

Great, you got it working.

Graham.

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G-Code, CAD, and CAM discussions / Re: converting *.Mc9 to Mach3 G-code

« on: November 16, 2006, 12:48:46 PM »

Download the latest version of mach R2.0.009 and install it.

To do screen grabs download screenhunter from this link, free version.

http://www.wisdom-soft.com/products/screenhunter.htm

Graham.

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G-Code, CAD, and CAM discussions / Re: converting *.Mc9 to Mach3 G-code

« on: November 16, 2006, 05:12:10 AM »

This is what I get in Mach3 from your latest nc file.

try changing to incremental IJ mode in config

Graham.

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LazyCam (Beta) / Re: Pimp my Lcam

« on: November 15, 2006, 11:29:14 AM »

How about LATHE.

Graham.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Lost my orientation...

« on: November 15, 2006, 10:16:15 AM »

Hi Keith,

always image the tool is moving not the table, then you can use the right hand rule.

Stand in front of the machine with the X axis moving left to right in front of you.

Poke your right thumb to the right (X) your first finger away from you (Y) and your second finger up (Z),  these are all your PLUS movements.

I hope this is what you meant.

Graham.

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Tangent Corner / Re: Pass the time.

« on: November 15, 2006, 07:17:58 AM »

Nice, snow

You won't see much of that will you 

Graham.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: looking for old version of mach3

« on: November 15, 2006, 07:14:37 AM »

Go to the Downloads / FTP site and then legasey versions

Graham.

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G-Code, CAD, and CAM discussions / Re: converting *.Mc9 to Mach3 G-code

« on: November 15, 2006, 07:07:28 AM »

Hi Salty,

I have reworked your iges file through my CAM system and this is what I now get in Mach3 2.0.009

If you want the NC code file sent to your email send me an email.

Graham

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General Mach Discussion / Re: parts/cycle counter

« on: November 15, 2006, 02:59:29 AM »

Why not put a user dro on the screen, then write an M10.m1s macro, M10 is normally used for part counters.

(M10.m1s macro)
count=getuserdro(nnnn)
count=count+1
setuserdro(nnnn,count)   

nnnn is a user dro number of your choice.

Graham.