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General Mach Discussion / Softlimit settings
« on: January 24, 2011, 07:59:42 PM »
Hello guys,

I have been playing with Mach3 trying to familiarize myself with the various menus and settings. There's a lot of settings! Anyway, In the motor home/soft limits dialog window it says "entries are in setup units". My units are set to inches but it appears that it is asking for mm values? It has to be mm because 100.00" would be over 8 feet long! that’s one huge milling table!

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General Mach Discussion / Sherline Soft Limits
« on: August 07, 2009, 09:46:22 AM »
Hello guys,

I have been messing around with the soft limits and I really don't understand it. It seems for the Z, no matter what I choose, it has no effect that I can tell. After each change, I run the roadrunner.tap file and watch how the spindle moves and it seems to always behave the same. the only difference I can tell is how far down it travels but the direction it moves seems the same. In other words, when it is expected to move up, it does, when it's expected to move down, it does, regardless my settings.

Another problem I see is when zeroing the maching, the Z moves after the X and Y have zeroed, this will break a tool for sure.

NOTE: I am only looking at the display window. I don't have the machine yet. Perhaps I'm not seeing this properly.

Here is a screenshot of my settings:



Can someone with a  with a Sherline 5400 mill share their settings?

Thanks for any help.

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General Mach Discussion / Problems with display mode
« on: August 03, 2009, 09:15:34 PM »
Hello guys, I'm new to Mach3.

I have been trying to play around with the software in offline mode and I have a few issues. The first problem is trying to understand what the heck the display mode is doing. The cross hair seems to disappear and hard to locate at times. When I jog the cross hair, and then click zero for x,y, and z, it seems to snap the cross hair back to the bottom right corner instead of to the jog position I drove to. I tried zeroing with machine coordinates button turned on as well as off with the same result. Here is a screen shot of the display window.


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General Mach Discussion / Question: Mach3 & Sherline Motor Controller
« on: August 01, 2009, 12:40:17 PM »
Hello all, I'm new here. I have been doing a lot of research getting my self ready to purchase the things I need for CNC milling. I want to get a Sherline CNC Mill 5410 with stepper motors and motor controller box. I was wondering if Mach3 is compatible with Sherline's motor controller?

Thanks in advance.

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