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Tangent Corner / Re: Internet Explorer cannot display web page

« on: September 10, 2009, 06:51:12 AM »

firefox keeps locking up in Vista64 for me.. IE8 64bit has no flash and all IE32 periodically looses access to the web.. sooooooooooooooo my solution is a 64bit VM running xp pro and everything works hunky dory in that! i set a snapshot after full install of all my favourite stuff and periodically i jump back to that snapshot jsut to confuse all the cookies and tracking crod that all these website leave on my pc.

install peerguardian2 on your pc and see what your browsers are doing behind your back.. you may freak out and chop up your router and wear tinfoil hats and point at the sky .. live in a caravan eating twinkies....

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Getting a rotary toolpath to show correctly in Mach?

« on: September 10, 2009, 06:44:53 AM »

just rechecked. not actually in one quadrants at all, was the angle threw me off.. all the code is on the same line .. kinda like no rotary code is being processed at all...

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Getting a rotary toolpath to show correctly in Mach?

« on: September 10, 2009, 06:38:47 AM »

nope

Z zero is at rotary centre ?

i got ver 1.2, the free one, maybe it cant do rotary?

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Getting a rotary toolpath to show correctly in Mach?

« on: September 10, 2009, 06:15:26 AM »

i get exactly the opposite, my Mach display works great and ncplot gives me my entire rotary path squashed into one quadrant.. unfortunately turning on machs toolpath display with rotary tool paths is instant death for my job lol...

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Do i need a bigger pc for mach..

« on: September 10, 2009, 06:12:08 AM »

ok so if this application cant do arc fitting can i get another application to do this? can i buy a backplotter/arc fitter application for example?

anyone got an idea of something that does that. the reason i ask this is because while this application does not have arcs it has a supremely programmable interface allowing me to automate path generation significantly.. if i have to add another step to arc fit im happy to do it.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Do i need a bigger pc for mach..

« on: September 09, 2009, 12:24:33 AM »

two guys have tested that code and apparently not had issues.. they both have ballscrews with half the tpi of my mill so half the work to get the same distance. i may try reducing my microstepping from 10 to 5 to equal their machines..

last resort...

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Tangent Corner / Re: Where is this character ?

« on: September 08, 2009, 02:56:06 AM »

back in my DOS days that was used ot pipe commands.. could not find it back then either

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Tangent Corner / Re: Where is this character ?

« on: September 07, 2009, 05:12:55 PM »

All my Microsoft keyboards have one line , all my other keyboards (dell) show it as dashed.

hmmm

ÏÌÍIİĬĨĮļŀȊȴʃʅПῗ‖↑↕↓  who knew....

 

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Do i need a bigger pc for mach..

« on: September 06, 2009, 08:02:14 PM »

my mill manufacturer, MiniTech has some guys on it. will have some answers soon i hope.

will feedback once i hear

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Do i need a bigger pc for mach..

« on: September 06, 2009, 06:04:29 PM »

here is the posted initialisation code

G17 G21 G40 G49 G64 G90 G94

G64 maybe? but cant think that would affect it like this?