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General Mach Discussion / lazycam price increase

« on: June 15, 2007, 03:48:45 PM »

  went to the plugins lazycam is $75 instead of $50 for the pro....
guess i'll wait for something else, just wanted pocketing features
BTW i have paid for mach3..
dan

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Competitions / Re: ******Guess and win a G100 Grex******

« on: May 22, 2007, 10:06:04 PM »

hmm put me down for 2,112,353
looks about right .
 

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General Mach Discussion / Re: troublshooting from the results

« on: April 03, 2007, 03:30:07 PM »

tore apart that axis.....waiting on a timing belt from ebay,going to try using a belt drive and a more powerfull stepper

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General Mach Discussion / Re: troublshooting from the results

« on: April 01, 2007, 11:31:56 AM »

stepper machine... i just thought taht since it was so regular, it couldnt be lost steps, before when i lost steps it was random....
well, i'll redo that axis .. thanks
dan

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General Mach Discussion / troublshooting from the results

« on: March 31, 2007, 10:42:27 PM »

hi all,
i went and cut my first multi pass project today on my homebuilt and had a odd result.
i have a movable table y axis and a stationary gantry x axis..
anyways i noticed the piece, when cut out, had perfect up and down edges on the sides, but on the side for the y axis
one side was stepped out, maybe 1/32 every cut, and the opposite was undercut approx the same distance.. the mach 3 software worked great (except i couldnt figure out how to use tool offset in lazycam)
could this be a example of slop ? backlash ? it semed too even to be random step loss. btw this is with allthread and 60 in torq motors running at 5 ipm..
this is a tweak as you go project,and i'm already getting bigger motors.
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thanks ,
dan

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General Mach Discussion / Re: mach 3 rev2,057 troubles

« on: March 26, 2007, 06:38:56 PM »

works fine now, once i deleted those 2 drivers under the pulsing engine and reinstalled m3 ver 2.060
thanks for all the suggestions. now to make some chips.
dan

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General Mach Discussion / Re: mach 3 rev2,057 troubles

« on: March 24, 2007, 05:12:39 PM »

had o.o for time in dro
checked my mach3 drivers and i had 2 installed under the mach3 pulsing engine, deleted both and reinstalled 2.o57 ( its what i had  close to hand) and it works now..
so it appears that you can have too many drivers , must have confused the program
dan

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General Mach Discussion / Re: mach 3 rev2,057 troubles

« on: March 23, 2007, 04:14:57 PM »

ok, got back to my machine and loaded in mach 3 rev 2.060
same problem
checked my port number .. its 378 same as mach3 port number
ran driver test, it takes control and has a straight line in the 38000 range
but still no motor action, or limit switches light up , ( they do light up on my breakout board leds)
under the diagnostics screen pulse frequency is 0
clicked and ran the original driver bat file, no change

if i look at my ports under xp hardware i have , as i said before, a lpt port with a resource of 378
i'm sitting here feeling i'm chasing my tail.. this system works good with 1.84 , i dont understand why the lpt port doesnt like 2.0
aany ideas ?
dan

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General Mach Discussion / Re: mach 3 rev2,057 troubles

« on: March 15, 2007, 10:14:42 PM »

i installed over the existing version, then when that didnt , uninstalled and installed rev 2.057, then that didnt work, so i installed 1.over that... if your not supposed to install over the old rev the installation program should say that instead of " do you want to upgrade the existing installation"
dan

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General Mach Discussion / Re: mach 3 rev2,057 troubles

« on: March 15, 2007, 08:22:39 PM »

the printer port driver for mach 3 ?

hmm i thought that it automaticaly installed that... there was a check mark in the installation to do that
will check it out next time i'm off work
dan