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Show"N"Tell ( What you have made with your CNC machine.) / Re: Cylinder Heads

« on: August 25, 2011, 05:04:37 PM »

Yesterday I made the second half of the boot mold. After being sent home from work because of a small fire and power failure in the refinery, I made the core pins and made a test run.




I could have mixed the material better. The color is not good. I think I pressed a little harder than I should have also. The result was great. I have made 5 boots now and they look better. I tried to color one with black pigment but after 1/2 hour in the mold it was still soft. Grey will look just fine.





They look a little big but so do the plugs so it is something i will learn to accept. I don't think I want to go any smaller.

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Machscreen Screen Designer / Re: Reset button help

« on: August 25, 2011, 05:03:40 PM »

Thanks Bud but I use machscreen.

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Machscreen Screen Designer / Reset button help

« on: August 25, 2011, 01:38:39 PM »

I have created a wizard to aid myself in some basic day to day stuff. I needed a reset button so i inserted a button and LED. I have the button working ok but the LED, not so much. I have tried every led that would seem to work with the reset button but no light and no flash. What LED should I use to monitor the reset button and flash when the button needs to be reset?

Thanks in advance.

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Show"N"Tell ( What you have made with your CNC machine.) / Re: Cylinder Heads

« on: August 24, 2011, 04:58:11 PM »

Steve,
Have enjoyed the thread, thanks for the time and effort in sharing it all.
RICH

Glad you enjoy the updates. Hopefully there will be some video soon.

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Show"N"Tell ( What you have made with your CNC machine.) / Re: Cylinder Heads

« on: August 23, 2011, 04:24:20 PM »

Is that a Gas can and a quart of Oil I see?

So when do we see Fire coming out of those pretty pipes?

What material did you use for the tubes and how did you shape them?

The pipes are stainless steel. They were bent in a home made bender made by my pal Ron.

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Show"N"Tell ( What you have made with your CNC machine.) / Re: Cylinder Heads

« on: August 22, 2011, 09:56:39 PM »

Exhaust pipes are done.

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VB and the development of wizards / Re: Passing Code to mach

« on: August 21, 2011, 08:40:48 PM »

Thanks.  I decided to go the wizard route so i'm up to my a$$ in that whole thing. I have the wiz producing code and running it. I just need to do small things like figure out how to turn on the jogging from the keyboard. I'm reading everything I can find on the web and in the wiki.

Thanks for all the help thus far.

Steve

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VB and the development of wizards / Re: Passing Code to mach

« on: August 21, 2011, 09:21:56 AM »

So from what im reading I need to write the code into the teach file and then read it into the code window.

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VB and the development of wizards / Re: Passing Code to mach

« on: August 21, 2011, 08:19:35 AM »

Ask Brian on the Yahoo group.
Vectric's products (and others I believe) can also export code directly to Mach3. In Aspire there's a checkbox to  "Output direct to machine".

Thanks ger21

I had absolutely no trouble writing the code in VB to output to a file. I have been screwing around for 3 days trying to get it to work as a wizard. I can't find docs for the VB commands and can't figure out how VB works in Mach directly. Specifically the "code" command. I'm guessing the code command has something to do with loading commands into the code window.

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VB and the development of wizards / Re: Passing Code to mach

« on: August 21, 2011, 04:59:57 AM »

HIYA Steve have the script write the Gcode as a text file then in the same script  LOAD the file into MACH and run.

OR do you mean run each individual line from inside the script 1 line at a time?

I should have examples of both ways here if you need them.

(;-) TP

The program writes a Gcode file to "C:\program1.tap" but it would be alot easier if I could auto load the program into mach if Mach is already running.