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General Mach Discussion / Re: Spindle parking with mach ideas please

« on: January 07, 2014, 08:46:25 AM »

been toying with this for my toolchanger, thinking along the lines of the spindle stops and a dc motor engages it and turns spindle to an optical switch, and orientating it for the drive dogs,im using using a tormach type system with a carosell but quit frankly its useless for anything other than drilling or light milling. need a bt30 solution.
Tony

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General Mach Discussion / uc300 usb controller

« on: December 12, 2013, 07:33:51 AM »

just on the cusp of buying a usb controller and the one that is catching my eye is the cncdrive (whose products ive used and are happy with there excellent service) uc300-5lpt.
 The spec. seems as good as any and the price is better than many! But is there a "but" are they any good? has anyone here used one?
regards
  Tony

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General Mach Discussion / Re: unwanted creep in jog mode?

« on: December 09, 2013, 07:58:16 AM »

ill try it in the next couple of days,in my sick bed at the moment

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General Mach Discussion / Re: unwanted creep in jog mode?

« on: December 09, 2013, 06:34:58 AM »

nope its both mpg's and it can happen when there set in any axis combination, once they start creeping i need to flick a hardwired axis selection or step/cont. switch to stop it? as far as pci pp are concerned ive noticed that the moschip ones donot work bi directional ie 2-9 as inputs is there a recomendation for a card that does,i have an old ime ? card which does but there very hard to find these days.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: unwanted creep in jog mode?

« on: December 09, 2013, 05:49:39 AM »

ok reloaded mach,made no difference, did the press  , for reset trick and it still made no difference.it has got to be something to do with the MPG set up side of things,maybe having 2 mpg's is not so good? could it be the pci pp card that the mpg's wire into? any thoughts guys?

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General Mach Discussion / Re: unwanted creep in jog mode?

« on: November 24, 2013, 01:33:44 PM »

Hmm yes its looking more and more like a format and total reload, just such a pain finding all the drivers again! And you know its goiing toi be 3 hours work and probably won't cure it, which is the most stable version for using with a tool changer? Can I use my old mach files ie xlm settings oir is it ewise to re write them from scratch ?
Tony

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General Mach Discussion / Re: unwanted creep in jog mode?

« on: November 24, 2013, 12:37:53 PM »

Any more thoughts on this guys? I'm still having the problem?
Tony

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General Mach Discussion / Re: 5th axis set up

« on: October 18, 2013, 03:36:27 AM »

"Mach3 not having WORLD jogging makes it tough to run 5/6 axis code"

what does that mean?
 Tony

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General Mach Discussion / Re: 5th axis set up

« on: October 17, 2013, 01:41:16 PM »

well I guess from the lack of advice, answers practically no one is running mach on 5 axis!

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General Mach Discussion / Re: 5th axis set up

« on: October 11, 2013, 05:25:20 AM »

from what I can tell Mach wont run more than 3 axis in the graphics window although the code should be correct assuming the machine parameters were set up in the cam package?, i.e. a revolving on x axis and b on y and assuming the +- is correct ?
   Does anyone know why the fanuk post ,produces code that skips a and uses b&c instead,is that so a axis is always differant from a trunnion setup?