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Tangent Corner / Re: Diseases...

« on: August 08, 2009, 03:44:09 AM »

mwaaaaaaaaaaahahahahahahahahah

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mini laser CNC

« on: August 07, 2009, 04:50:13 PM »

That'd make a nice bong 

Dave

 

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SmoothStepper USB / Re: Does it reduce CPU load ?

« on: August 07, 2009, 08:35:33 AM »

i get same behaviour with parallel port. if toolpath is on when a rotation happens or if i turn it on while a cut is happening then everything goes pear shaped.

thanks for your help. will wait itll next revision is finalised then.

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Show"N"Tell ( What you have made with your CNC machine.) / Re: Gertrude Gets Some!

« on: August 07, 2009, 06:46:45 AM »

NAKO.. Not Another Knock Off!!

This is a knockof fof  job in a magazine. pretty rough pathing but its to see size etc. think final one will have texturing possibly.


 

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SmoothStepper USB / Re: Does it reduce CPU load ?

« on: August 07, 2009, 06:45:14 AM »

ok here you go.

this is the hawks job i posted a while bback. this one stalled my machine when A tried to turn because i was teaching my wife to use mach and she forgot to turn viewport off

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SmoothStepper USB / Re: Does it reduce CPU load ?

« on: August 07, 2009, 06:38:10 AM »

ok gimme ten. supper time

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SmoothStepper USB / Re: Does it reduce CPU load ?

« on: August 07, 2009, 05:26:51 AM »

its a  pcie nv8200 with 512mb of ram. I think ii covered this in another thread. Most jewellers seem to have the same issue because of the density of our paths and the fact that they get rotated. I don't recall whom, but someone said that it was a known issue and would be addressed in the next revision of mach. This happens on rotary toolpaths mostly but will happen on indexed work if they happen to be rotated by the 4th axis and toolpath display is on as well. I setup  customers mill on a quadcore 3ghz with 4gb of ram and a nvida 9800gtx 768mb of ram. same issues. definately not a hardware problem.

I want to use video probing to but i dare not try use it along with toolpath display on this setup. will stall me for sure. was kinda hoping that by taking the load of the cpu with smoothstepper i could broaden my usage. So im back to asking if the smooth stepper will reduce cpu load, or do i hang around for the next revision rather than investing in new hardware?

Ken, you bought a smooth stepper dude.. speak up.!

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SmoothStepper USB / Does it reduce CPU load ?

« on: August 07, 2009, 03:57:05 AM »

I still have the issue where clicking the toolpath window on will kill my job, stall my mototrs and generally cause pandemonium around my machine. i use 5 - 15mb files with heaps of path so Mach pulsing and drawing the path is not happening for me.

If i invest in a SmoothStepper will this take the load of the processor enough for me to run with toopath display on?

My mill pc is a dell gx620. 3.2ghz HT with 1gb drr800, XP Pro minimal install.

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Show"N"Tell ( Your Machines) / Re: Ex-Cell-O Spindle Wizard to retrofit

« on: August 07, 2009, 03:53:24 AM »

great thread. thank you so much for sharing this journey. good read. i work on the opposite side of the spectrum to you with most my jobs happening inside of one cubic inch so its always great to see other people using their tools.

Regards
Chris

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Show"N"Tell ( What you have made with your CNC machine.) / Re: Gertrude Gets Some!

« on: August 06, 2009, 06:23:16 AM »

here is the code for that . 15 degree 0.127mm conical flat cutter.

this was generated by the trial version of deskproto. still playing around with it. looks nice.