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Works in progress / Re: Refurbished standard screen

« on: April 19, 2009, 04:26:14 PM »

Latest development.

Not fully satisfied with the "Teaching buttons". I wont make bigger buttons there. Maybe I make the area where the buttons are smaller. But that will not be tonight!

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Works in progress / Re: Refurbished standard screen

« on: April 19, 2009, 01:56:09 PM »

Nice, clean job you're doing there. I'm sure those that use the original screens would love it- 

Dave

Thanks!

It takes a lot of time, to much time in fact. It will probably be some time before I get all screens done.

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Works in progress / Re: Refurbished standard screen

« on: April 19, 2009, 01:49:05 PM »

Some new buttons made. Still some work to do on the MDI screen though. I don't want to have to many different button sizes. The "standard" 40x60 pixel buttons looks very small in the "teaching" area of the MDI screen. Have to think on what to do there.

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Works in progress / Re: Refurbished standard screen

« on: April 19, 2009, 11:25:30 AM »

Here is the MDI screen. One screen shot of mach3 mdi screen and the mdi background image.

This background image was much quicker to make,. Learned a lot from making the main screen image. Lots of copy and cut and paste.

Have still to make some new buttons and adjustment, but the mdi screen image is finished.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: THC300 postprocessor mistake???

« on: April 18, 2009, 02:27:58 PM »

Do Sheet Cam put out a larger positive Z-value as the plasma nozzle is supposed to be lowered?

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General Mach Discussion / Re: THC300 postprocessor mistake???

« on: April 18, 2009, 02:19:04 PM »

I'm a totally newbe here.

If you cant configure sheet cam to put out negative Z-values you probably must invert your Z scale in mach3.

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Show"N"Tell ( What you have made with your CNC machine.) / Re: RC helicopter rotor head and mechanics.

« on: April 18, 2009, 11:37:51 AM »

Nedless to say he built his own router also. He lives some 40 miles from me, but I don't know him.

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Works in progress / Re: Refurbished standard screen

« on: April 18, 2009, 05:41:05 AM »

Looks like you put a lot of time into the rework. I never could get the hang of Paint.   

Brett

Yes, to much time already!

I started from scratch with ms-paint. I don't think I like that program.

I had used several hours to tidy up the main screen background, saved it in bmp, opened the saved bmp file, worked more on it and "saved" it instead of "save as". What I didn't know is that ms-paint automatically saves in jpg when only "saving" even if it is a bmp you have opened and is working on. When I opened another drawing and after that should open the bmp file of the main screen it was in fact saved as a jpg file! 

If you have studied an originally proper drawing which is then saved by ms-paint in jpg you know what I mean. Ms-paint converts horribly to jpg. Lots of "ghosts". You can clearly see all the faults even in normal size, you don't need to zoom in to see it............. I did this twice.............

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Mach Screens / Re: Question on background of Box Leds

« on: April 18, 2009, 03:21:03 AM »

Didn't work!

When I close and reopens Mach3 the ref. buttons is invisible until I click on them. Then they stay visible  Arrgghhh

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Mach Screens / Re: Question on background of Box Leds

« on: April 18, 2009, 02:53:17 AM »

Found it. Had to open the box led png and specify the transparent color while saving to a new file. Don't know what happened with the "transparent data" to the original file. It does function correct on the standard screen set file though, but not on my modified set.