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General Mach Discussion / any success running a touch probe with mach3

« on: July 27, 2009, 06:37:40 PM »

I have seen a probe that you place in the spindle head or router that turns the cnc into a scanner is this working ok
do you program mach3 to scan and do the probe results go straight to the computer , the become an *.stl  file how does all this come togther

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General Mach Discussion / computer causing gorilla cnc glitch

« on: November 28, 2008, 12:34:01 AM »

i seem to have a problem that cannot be resolved .With the cnc machine powered up, turning on the computer (win xp) during booting the cnc machine drives the z axis down by 2.5 to 3 inches( loss of control ).
I have changed all the settings on the parallel port ,changed the cable to the gorilla cnc and tried 3 computers ,problem does not go away and i'm afraid to use the machine as it could damage the z axis or the gantry.i have been shutdown for a week so far.
I don't know what to do

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EngUvy3YKAE

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General Mach Discussion / interference

« on: November 26, 2008, 08:17:06 PM »

has anyone experienced the computer booting and driving the cnc machine z axis 2.5 inches down and on a shutdown the cnc machine z axis clitches about 1/2 inch
Cannot uinderstand ,the printer port is standard and the right address and it is a desktop amd 3500 computer 2 gigs ram xp pro