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

« on: May 20, 2009, 05:00:42 AM »

or you can do it easily with a 5th axis   i really want to add one but pathing software makes this prohibitive

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

« on: May 20, 2009, 04:59:34 AM »

at the moment i actually physically stamp it. but with carefull pathing strategies you can cut inside too if you are doing hybrid 3 sided cutting.. ive not bothered so far.. too much mission for something that takes 1 second with a hallmarking stamp

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Machscreen Screen Designer / Re: Screendesigner "machscreen"

« on: May 20, 2009, 04:08:48 AM »

like the other guys here im happy to support your effort.. please post a paypal and i will give what i can?

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Machscreen Screen Designer / Re: Screendesigner "machscreen"

« on: May 20, 2009, 04:08:10 AM »

i had the German thing happen on my installs too.. would install and run in English once but on next restart it would all be German.. im lucky i speak Afrikaans so figuring out where to change back to English was easy

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Index switch / limit switch

« on: May 20, 2009, 03:28:39 AM »

oh ok got it now!

thanks a million guys.. got a cut on right now, will test after

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

« on: May 20, 2009, 12:34:46 AM »

thansk guys.. always more jewllery.. .. im a little tired of it actually.. want to broaden my cad cam into other areas... woodworking seems nice...

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Index switch / limit switch

« on: May 20, 2009, 12:33:32 AM »

thanks guys.. ok so if its not too much trouble can someone explain where and how i need to change this.. im a bit clueless?  what im after is setting a limit to how far back and forward my mill can travel.. in X Y and Z

so it must never be able to go below 0 for example? but still be able to home? hmm i dont even understand what im asking anymore...

ok ill take pics of my settign screens and physical switches  later and you can make suggestions?

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Index switch / limit switch

« on: May 19, 2009, 11:21:14 PM »

I think that applies to the machine slowing down when it does a home operation? I need something that will stop the mill if it goes more than 2 micron or so over the actual limit switch during normal operation, not just during homing?

im prepared to live with an ESTOP solution as ti will savbe me from killing $200 omron switches...

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

« on: May 19, 2009, 10:46:13 PM »

these just finished

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General Mach Discussion / Index switch / limit switch

« on: May 19, 2009, 09:56:45 PM »

This is a complete noob question.. proabbly covered in documentation somewhere but im too lazy/old/ignorant to find it...


i have four "limit switches" on my mill which are used to home my axis' and one is used as a probe.. and they work really really well..

the only headache with them is that if I accidentally crash into them they move out the way to save the switch but that means I have to refind my 4th axis Y centre after I recover from the crash.. major PITA..

now it occurs to me it should be a reasonable simple thing to just tell the mill to stop moving in its current direction if it hits the limit switch in the course of a errant path or manual jog.. like a mini estop if you will..

I checked the options but its all greek to me..

dumb jeweller here...


any help appreciated