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General Mach Discussion / new mach3 2.56[1] problem maybe

« on: October 23, 2007, 09:48:58 PM »

im running the new 2.56.1 on the machine in the house, not at the shop, to look at it,
and noticed, at least on this machine,
 that when  i hit ref all home on the program run window i get a error code, " error on line 5 - sub or function not defined:G1X0Y0Z0"
 but when i do it on the mdi window, i get 3 homed axis
scratching head.
dan

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General Mach Discussion / Re: A Long Sad Story

« on: October 02, 2007, 07:31:38 PM »

i add another vote for turbocad.... got my version off ebay turbocad deluxe 11,  for $14 ...........works fine with lazycam, only thing is i need to explode the curves to make it work. it will allow you to do the curves you need, just take some measurements off a template and mark those points , then bring your curves thru those points.
when your all done save the dxf then explode the drawwing a few times and save the result, that way if you make a mistake you can go back.
dan

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G-Code, CAD, and CAM discussions / Re: Z-axis going down, but not programmed

« on: August 19, 2007, 03:48:50 AM »

one thing that was a problem with me was i had a tool offset set up in the tool table, so i would set my height for z then when the program ran it would do my hieght and add the tool hieght also, i manualy change bits, so i removed the tool hieght from the tool table, problem fixed.
dan

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General Mach Discussion / Re: tabs

« on: July 22, 2007, 06:23:11 PM »

hmm , ok
i thought you might be able to do like a shape file, only on the bottom layer , that way we could place a rectangle with the width of our choice for the tab width
thanks
dan

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Lazy cam Pro

« on: July 18, 2007, 04:36:04 PM »

not sure , but when lazycam gives me that saying i have to take the dxf back to the cad and explode the drawing, then save and take to lazycam

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Tangent Corner / Re: Tool change puzzle...

« on: July 16, 2007, 08:02:21 AM »

hmm i do the monkey thing, but i use a piece of blank pcb with a wire soldered to it and run to the probe input. grolt on cnczone has a nice lil VB script and screen he posted,  http://www.cnczone.com/forums/showthread.php?t=36099 is the thread
dan

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General Mach Discussion / tabs

« on: July 14, 2007, 01:52:10 PM »

is there any way to have tabs short of manualy editing the gcode ?
i tried creating a dxf with 2 layers and the second layer is interupted for tabs, but when i clean up the image in lazycam the extra layer goes away. even if i have duplicated lines off.
i have lazycam pro, and its great, but i could seee being able to copy a chain and drop it down for tabs being very usefull
thanks
dan

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Cutting slopes in foam

« on: July 01, 2007, 03:12:53 PM »

you might try freemill, its free, i have designed stuff in google sketchup, and used a free plugin to export a 3d file, then imported it into freemill.
at work right now, so i dont have the names in front of me, but it worked.. i was using it for text at the time.
dan

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General Mach Discussion / Re: lazycam price increase

« on: June 18, 2007, 08:09:08 AM »

sigh,
over the weekend  found myself coming back to lazycam due to its ease of use.... paid the money for the pro today
i am sooo lazy
dan

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General Mach Discussion / Re: lazycam price increase

« on: June 16, 2007, 08:11:39 AM »

maybe so,
but i still have to massage the code that comes out, and the beta seems wierd .
going to go look at meshcam, dont mind paying for a program, just think it was a lil early for the price increase
dan