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General Mach Discussion / Re: zero axis within program

« on: April 12, 2020, 05:49:43 AM »

Cheers Graham I will try that. Why do you need to use caution? Any other Tips
Happy Easter !!
Tony

G92 but use with caution

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General Mach Discussion / zero axis within program

« on: April 09, 2020, 10:48:59 PM »

Hi I need to zero the Z axis, automatically, at the start of a lathe  program, I cannot use g90/91 because of the profile, any Ideas?
the lathe is a swiss auto bar feed is the z type machine.
cheers

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General Mach Discussion / Re: mastercam - mach3 5axis

« on: March 01, 2019, 12:38:36 PM »

I have had a look at the thread but the links are broken?

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General Mach Discussion / mastercam - mach3 5axis

« on: February 28, 2019, 10:25:40 AM »

H does anyone have a mastercam - mach3 5axis post that works, that I could have?
many thanks
Tony

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General Mach Discussion / Re: bitsensor usb controller

« on: December 24, 2018, 06:12:13 AM »

Just thought these boards are common +5v so the pulse stream is triggered to ground, which to my mind at least is a better way of connecting.
  As an aside for quickly checking beakout boards without setting up drivers and motors,use an earbud or small speaker ,i use a piezo transducer,
and connect the pulse output stream to your speaker,you will hear it buzzing at different frequencies (according to feed rate) if all is well.
just incse here is the xlm file i tested on, im running on windows 7

Tony

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General Mach Discussion / Re: bitsensor usb controller

« on: December 24, 2018, 05:07:14 AM »

OK, that seems to have worked.
unzip and drop into your plugins folder. on startup connect to the RnR motion controller.
it seems to do every thing automatically.it makes no difference to the 4 motors what you put in the motor i/o table or in fact whether you have any ports switched on.
the only issue I had was that it put the jog speed at 100% which caused some confusion untill I worked that out!
I havent tested the switch i/o's as yet but I cant see why they shouldnt work .

Im not sure that video posted earlier is correct??

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General Mach Discussion / Re: bitsensor usb controller

« on: December 24, 2018, 04:57:24 AM »

try this:

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General Mach Discussion / Re: bitsensor usb controller

« on: December 22, 2018, 08:10:35 AM »

having trouble up loading the RnR motion dll plugin file ive even tried changing it to .dxf for upload???

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General Mach Discussion / Re: bitsensor usb controller

« on: December 21, 2018, 06:27:34 AM »

Hey Craig thanks for that really helpful advice ,that was exactly what I was looking for!
Actually I worked it out myself, you just have to use the correct plugin,works a treat  had one running 4 axis on a soak test for 48 hours not one problem. fantastic value at £20 a pop as opposed to £140 for a uc300 or£200 for a smooth stepper,
 just ordered another 4 as they cant be at that price for much longer !
    Merry Christmas

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General Mach Discussion / bitsensor usb controller

« on: December 12, 2018, 01:30:15 PM »

Hi just bought one of these off ebay, everything on the CD is in Chinese, can anyone point me to an english manual or set up instructions? ive got as far as loading the plugin and it isnt throwing up any errors. ive connected it within mach3 and the plugin control is there so im assuming so far so good. however not sure how to set up the ports? ive set up uc300's and smooth steppers so im not a novice!!

Regards
  Tony