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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach2 slowdown

« on: January 26, 2006, 02:12:32 PM »

Done and done. Lean and mean! Not a 'hiccup'!
Last thing I want to do now is get the annoying 'start up icon' at the beginning of the Mac2 screen,the distributor deemed appropriate to tag the software with (it's a pumpkin and Einstein??)I guess an update will take care of that.-Thanks ,Keith

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach2 slowdown

« on: January 25, 2006, 11:04:31 AM »

That's good news.I figured something was amiss.I looked on the Artsoft page but couldn't find the 'optimizing' you refered to,can you give me directions to this section?Thanks,Keith

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General Mach Discussion / Mach2 slowdown

« on: January 25, 2006, 10:40:58 AM »

Hi,I've ignored this problem for a while,rather investing my time into learning the basics but I'm feeling a little righteous and demanding lately and wondered if anyone could address the fact that Mach2,after a few changes/page clicks/close file-open new file,etc, freezes my machine miserably.I turned off everything else the machine can run in the background before starting Mach2.
I thought it was the Dell I dedicated to the machine but I put Mach2 on my super clean ,super everything,Sony Vaio laptop and even after exiting Mach2(I do understand that the program takes over ,slowing most things up while running it) the machine behaves like it had a 6502 for a processor...s-l-o-w!
Any advice?-Keith

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Projecting to plane?

« on: January 08, 2006, 07:55:16 PM »

Yeah that's the unit I was drooling over.I just went over board this year with all sorts of new equipment but it's high on the 'next to buy' list.I think that tool setup extra makes it a bargain ,too-Keith

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Projecting to plane?

« on: January 08, 2006, 05:05:38 PM »

Good going Terry,I didn't see your earlier post,I needed an excuse to buy that probe I've wanted,for a while.Merry Xmas to me! Seriously that is so cheating but I WANT THAT PROBE!!!-Keith

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Projecting to plane?

« on: January 08, 2006, 12:25:44 PM »

I gottcha ,Graham.I like this way and since what I want is high contrast ,any discontinuity will just be part of the randomness.What I think I would do is  outline the high contrasted image in Rhino.Draw the circles and then 'trim' the first area of interest and save it as a layer and then continue to isolate each circle and save as another layer this way,generate the gcode from importing it as a DXF and then do the trig to insert into each layer's z-cut.Thanks a million.-Keith

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Projecting to plane?

« on: January 08, 2006, 11:32:34 AM »

Now that makes sense.I guess then the trick is how to index the information contained in each circle of interest.Maybe one circle per layer?

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Projecting to plane?

« on: January 08, 2006, 09:56:33 AM »

Oh right,you brought me a little closer with that one...think polar.
I have a 4-axis.I'm going to chew on this for a bit as a back of the brain distraction.When I do something mentionable,I will.Also,if that guy tells me what he did to achieve it,that did it for me in the past,I'll pass it on to the group.Thanks for your thoughts Terry.-Keith

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Projecting to plane?

« on: January 08, 2006, 08:38:44 AM »

Thanks Graham,I wasn't thinking so much about the overcutting so much since I was going to use the tiniest of tools and the image I want is very 'high contrast' so I'm really looking more for what on paper would look either black or white/on or off,all cuts being the same depth, but I can imagine this still to be a concern.What I was concerned with is doing it without a CAM.I was pretty sure a CAM package could do it.I was more wondering about the feasibility of roughly mapping the Z offset of a sphere since the image would easily be rasterized.I'm going to contact the guy who once did this for me,maybe I'm wrong but this guy was so 'old school' ,I don't even think he ever used a CAM package.Thanks,Keith

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Projecting to plane?

« on: January 07, 2006, 01:52:08 PM »

Well yes that seems pretty straight forward and I'm familiar with axis swapping to accomplish this but my brain is having a hard time  extropolating this idea to a sphere(the 'message you mention deals with a cylinder).Thanks Terry,maybe I'll have an 'Eureka' moment after reading those posts ,over.-Keith