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General Mach Discussion / Re: setting up 2 machines

« on: October 15, 2007, 07:26:52 AM »

Hey, thanks so much for the quick reply!.. Thats a big help.
Mark

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General Mach Discussion / setting up 2 machines

« on: October 14, 2007, 12:19:11 PM »

Hello I was wondering if there is a way to have the settings in Mach, saved for my old machine and then I could use a A/B printer port switch to pick my new machine with new settings?
Thanks in advance
Mark

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Promote and discuss your product / Re: Multifunction CNC Board

« on: June 15, 2007, 09:05:12 AM »

Is this board for unipolar or Bipolar  steppers?

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

« on: May 23, 2007, 09:09:34 AM »

I say its 2,800,532
Mark

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Help with scale

« on: January 16, 2007, 01:13:50 PM »

lol. Thats true
Well I have 3/8" threaded rod so I think that is the 16 so I suppose that would be .0625 travel per round?
Thank you so much for that help and the links.
Mark

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Help with scale

« on: January 16, 2007, 12:46:25 PM »

Thank you Brett,
The machine I'm using is my first and its homemade, using allthread from Lowe's so I'm really not sure what the pitch is, also it is a proof of concept machine just to get my feet wet in learning the software. I must say that its working way better then I could have ever hoped. The only problem that I'm having so far is this scaling factor. Thanks again for all the info I do have a question though "Checking your backlash should be no problem if you have an indicator"
May sound stupid but I won't know until I ask What is an indicator?
Mark

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General Mach Discussion / Help with scale

« on: January 16, 2007, 11:47:42 AM »

Hello, I have an issue where If I create a tool path in Artcam, and then open it in Mach3 the scale is off. For an example if ithe part is suppose to be 10" it comes up  WAY smaller and I have to scale it up.
I have been messing with it and found that if I scale up all the axis in Mach to 13% its close to the original, but not right still.
Any ideas about what Im doing wrong would be a great help. Maybe I did not set up Mach right? Im new to all this.
Thank You,
Mark