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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach 3 USB Output

« on: August 14, 2015, 05:17:13 AM »

The reason these BoBs have a USB port is usually just to provide a +5V computer reference supply for the opto-isolators.  They do not process any signals on the USB port and indeed don't look at the data signals at all.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach 3 Turn OD sphere wizard

« on: July 19, 2015, 10:01:20 AM »

Mission accomplished.  I discovered how easy it is to reinstall the Xbox plugin, and the I used the OD Fillet wizard to turn a hemishere on the end of my bar by settingh the radius equal to the bar radius and the length equal to the radius.  Simples!

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General Mach Discussion / How to set coordinates to specific values?

« on: July 16, 2015, 05:28:35 PM »

Try return not enter...


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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach 3 Turn OD sphere wizard

« on: July 15, 2015, 04:35:31 PM »

OK, have installed '062, worked out how to restore the right xml, and tested the wizards out.  Work exactly as expected, no crashes.  Now I just need to get my xbox controller working again and the mill profile.

Many thanks for all the help!  As always, this forum gets me to a fix quickly.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach 3 Turn OD sphere wizard

« on: July 15, 2015, 09:49:48 AM »

Thanks Rich, I'll go for 062 then.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach 3 Turn OD sphere wizard

« on: July 15, 2015, 08:42:05 AM »

OK, thanks Dickeybird.  I'll download '062 and give it a whirl.

Presumably '066 is the latest for Mill, can I have two versions on my computer at the same time please?  Or doesn't that work?

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General Mach Discussion / Mach 3 Turn OD sphere wizard

« on: July 14, 2015, 04:08:25 PM »

Well I've taken the radical step of uninstalling and reinstalling, but having done that I should ask what the best version is for turning please?  Currently have 3.043.022

Now I'll have to remember how I configured the system for two different machine tools....


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General Mach Discussion / Mach 3 Turn OD sphere wizard

« on: July 14, 2015, 04:48:58 AM »

Version is in post 2.  Yes using generic screen set.


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General Mach Discussion / Mach 3 Turn OD sphere wizard

« on: July 13, 2015, 04:16:48 PM »

Nope, Mach 3 on an XP PC through the parallel port.  Nothing running other than M3.  Also disconnected from the Internet and disabled Norton.  One thing I noticed is that single G03 statements run fine, but both with this wizard and the od fillet wizard which will generate a hemisphere with the right parameters, they crash when there are a lot of G03s.  Also just once I've got an error message from Windows when trying to shut down to say that shutdown failed because the M3 driver was still running, though the GUI bit had crashed and couldn't be restarted.  I will try to see what happens if I reduce the number of G03s by making the cuts deeper.  This only happens on my w/s Dell Optiplex, not on my Win7 laptop, but the latter runs only in demo mode of course.


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General Mach Discussion / Mach 3 Turn OD sphere wizard

« on: July 12, 2015, 04:14:06 PM »

Hi Rich, yes, those exactly.

Thanks, John


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