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General Mach Discussion / A axis isn't working

« on: October 08, 2013, 11:45:57 AM »

I have added a 4th axis to my machine. Am having no luck getting Mach3 to recognize the A-axis as rotational (or angular) instead of linear. I have searched the forums and thought I found the answer several times but no joy. I have enabled the a-axis, set the a-axis as angular in the config screen, checked the 'x-axis as the axis of rotation' and 'A rotations enabled' in the Rotations dialog in the ToolPath dialog. Nonetheless, the added a-axis just turns and turns up to 360 when the g-code line commands A to 360. I have tried many different numbers in the motor tuning and haven't felt totally comfortable with any of them.

My board is a Xylotex board at 1/8 and a Xylotex 2.5A 269 stepper.

I have screen pics for verification if you need them.

Could someone help with what I am missing or doing wrong.

Thanks for your help.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: LazyCam limited to 49 line items

« on: December 15, 2008, 10:33:19 PM »

Graham,

Thanks for the reply. I thought this might be the case. I am travelling this week so will check out the license recognition when I get back to the machine on Saturday.

I purchased Mach3, downloaded it, copied to a thumb drive along with the license file that was e-mailed and then copied both to the machine in the shop (where there is no internet access). So, there is a strong likelihood the license file didn't get recognized on the machine in the shop.

Regards,

Jay

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General Mach Discussion / LazyCam limited to 49 line items

« on: December 15, 2008, 01:27:34 PM »

Just wanted to confirm that the free version of LazyCam which is bundled with Mach3 is limited to only 49 lines in the .tap output file. Or, am I doing something incorrectly? I did download LazyCam 3.0.0.3 Update, reinstalled and got the same result - only 49 lines. I thought that perhaps LazyCam wasn't recognizing the license key that came the Mach3 purchase.

Thanks, in advance, for the response.

Regards,

Jay