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General Mach Discussion / Re: velocity setting

« on: January 05, 2011, 02:55:08 PM »

Let's hope it keeps working like this and I don't have any more problems.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: velocity setting

« on: January 05, 2011, 01:55:03 PM »

Funny -
I have never been where there are 40ft waves. That has to be an experience all by itself.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: velocity setting

« on: January 05, 2011, 01:44:42 PM »

I am going to attempt my first inlay pattern. I have seen people do inlays on things, now it's my turn to try.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: velocity setting

« on: January 05, 2011, 01:44:01 PM »

Cool -
I didn't make a living at it but I grew up in the Chesapeake Bay area in MD for most of my child hood. Loved going crabbing each summer.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: velocity setting

« on: January 05, 2011, 01:38:19 PM »

I have ran a couple of small jobs today and it worked. But the problem has been so intermittent I am not sure if it is good or not.

The board I bought from Keling did not come with documentation but I found great documentation with screen shots of the mach settings that I downloaded elsewhere. Hoping it keeps chugging along like it has on these couple of small jobs.

Attached is a pic of one of the small jobs I ran.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: velocity setting

« on: January 05, 2011, 01:33:38 PM »

I did that too. I grounded everything together to the CNC machine. I grounded the stepper driver and SS to the machine.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: fixture save

« on: January 05, 2011, 11:15:31 AM »

Wow - thanks

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General Mach Discussion / Re: velocity setting

« on: January 05, 2011, 10:55:02 AM »

Which one? Was that the one where they posted about replacing the USB cable? I have been reading a lot in the SS section.

I am going to drive up and get me a new 1/8" bit and then come back and try some small items on the machine since I am off work today.

I installed a new driver board last night to see if it helps with my SS problem. I leave mach just sit there then come back jog something, enter some gcode and make it run and then just sit again. I close mach and come back and reopen mach etc... So far so good. We will see when I run some real jobs through it today.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: velocity setting

« on: January 05, 2011, 10:48:13 AM »

No -
All my computers were stolen so I bought a netbook as a replacement. If I had a parallel port then I would of never bought the SS and saved some money.

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General Mach Discussion / fixture save

« on: January 05, 2011, 10:47:15 AM »

I installed a new driver board last night to see if some reason it helps with my SS problem. I leave mach just sit there then come back jog something, enter some gcode and make it run and then just sit again. I close mach and come back and reopen mach etc...

If I understand correctly fixture save is what saves the xyz coordinates for the next time Mach3 starts again, it will have the numbers at the same previous setting when you exited Mach3.

Why doesn't it ask every time I exit Mach3 and can I save it before exiting to make sure it opens back up to the same place it was?

Thanks