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General Mach Discussion / Mach3 buttons

« on: April 08, 2006, 04:15:53 PM »

Is 'Feed Hold' in Mach3 the same as 'pause'(in Mach2)?
And 'Reverse Run' is this like doing a 'climbing mill' cut of what you were otherwise 'cutting normally' using the g-code that is loaded in the 'program run' page?-Keith

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General Mach Discussion / On recpocket wizard

« on: April 04, 2006, 04:52:12 PM »

Just a note; on the rectangular pocket wizard(Brian/Kiran) the finish pass goes positive rather than where it's suppose to be.I had to go in and put a '-' in the g-code to make the final pass.I used a climb final pass for mine.Haven't tried it with a 'standard' pass.First part works fine however.-Keith

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General Mach Discussion / Modified pocket wizard?

« on: March 28, 2006, 11:24:46 AM »

I've fooling around a lot with the wizards lately and I was wondering if there was a way to use the 'circular pocketing' one to modify the portion of a radius involved in the cutting.Picture a 2" hole already cut out(no material) and at the edge of this cut out,I'd like to pocket a concentric (negative)lip around the circumference of the 2" cut out.So I would begin or end at the center of the circle.Just a pocket of a portion of the circle.I know the other ways to do this but in this case a spiraling pocket would be sweet.Thoughts?(yeah I could write the code for this but I'm digging these wizards)-Keith

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Recpocket Wizard

« on: March 24, 2006, 08:58:57 PM »

Well I found the problem in that I have to offset the x and y for the tool size myself when it's called for in those boxes(x and y that is),it seems.I figured with a wizard it would do all that.Oh well,no biggee-Keith

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Recpocket Wizard

« on: March 24, 2006, 01:11:47 PM »

Yes Brian,it is offsetting in the code but the offset seems in the wrong direction as I changed parameters and witnessed the code.So I think I should be 'pre-offsetting' before I place the x and y coordinates in the wizard.I'll do that today and find out where offsetting places the center of the mill end where it's suppose to be for the size of final cut.-Keith

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General Mach Discussion / Re: High helix end mill keep gouging

« on: March 23, 2006, 05:27:14 PM »

I agree with Graham.When I first got my machine(sherline 2000) I was having the same problem.I rechecked and I hadn't tightened the head's arm as much as I thought I did and it was jumping when it caught some resistance.

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General Mach Discussion / Recpocket Wizard

« on: March 23, 2006, 03:59:39 PM »

Hi,I was starting to play with the wizards in Mach3;in the rectangular pocket wizard(Brian/Kiran),I plugged some of my numbers in and inspected the G-code and I can see there are some relative offsets done by the wizard but not what I expected.When designating tool size and x/y position,are we to calculate this ourselves first?(I was using a .125 end mill) and does 'depth' follow a neg/pos for however the machine is set up or is there an assumption of which way is standard(I cut into my piece with a -z)-Keith

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Still,jog problems

« on: March 02, 2006, 12:31:15 PM »

Thanks Brian,I figured it out, just now.It was a two-fold half silly,mistake.The not so silly is that you can jog 'continuously'(but not 'step') when the 'emergency stop' is flashing.The silly part is because the 'flash rate' of the 'emergency stop' was slowed down in Mach3(I just started using 3) and my eye didn't catch it blinking as I have conditioned my sensing for.Sounds stupid but I was so busy looking at everything else,I had my 'subconscious flags' only set for 'the familiar'.-Keith

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General Mach Discussion / Still,jog problems

« on: February 28, 2006, 11:42:00 AM »

Ok,I have been using the 'tab' to open the jog screen in 'program run' in Mach3.I thought it was when using the 'diagnostic screen' that caused me the problem of being able to jog in a 'step' mode(the continuous mode always works).So when I started using this tab jog,the step mode did work but again today,I went to use it in Program run and again the step does not work.Now I'm sure something's funky.It always worked reliably in Mach2.As I said,'continuous' always works;'step' sometimes works.I'm in the Sherline mode and the reason I mention this is because I thought maybe the pulse length could somehow effect the ability to 'step' ...I don't know...maybe some over shoot or something...just 'grabbing at straws'.Tried different increments as well.-Keith

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General Mach Discussion / Re: DRO change

« on: February 25, 2006, 04:07:48 PM »

Oh...well I'm zeroing out there.Isn't that the only page that has the change from 'continuous'/'step' jogging?I suppose I could reach my destination there and go to 'program run' page to 'zero'.I know you can jog on any page that has the on/off jog but that was the only place I could find the change to 'step'...that's the only reason I'm going there.I used to do it on the 'program run' page.