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MACH TOOL BOX / Re: Plasma Basic shapes Wizard

« on: April 24, 2012, 11:16:04 PM »

The first thing i notice is it says it is a corrupt file when i open it with machscreen
then I move all the bottom items up so they fit on my screen then save it and it works fine

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MACH TOOL BOX / Re: Plasma Basic shapes Wizard

« on: April 23, 2012, 11:42:37 PM »

Here is what I get when I open it

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MACH TOOL BOX / Re: Plasma Basic shapes Wizard

« on: April 23, 2012, 09:23:21 PM »

I fixed it with machscreen for my needs, but...
My laptop screen claims it is set to 1366 x 768
for some reason I could not see the bottom of your wizard
I have a love/hate relationship with these computers. ;->
Thanks Terry

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MACH TOOL BOX / Re: Plasma Basic shapes Wizard

« on: April 21, 2012, 09:06:09 PM »

Only issue is it needs to be formatted to a smaller screen size, It does not fit on my screen.

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Promote and discuss your product / Re: Learn the truth about BobCAD-CAM

« on: April 13, 2012, 09:49:33 PM »

Sorry.... you mean Bob Crap Cam
I've owned it, so can speak from experience, The only thing they are good at is hounding you with phone calls if you show any interest. They are relentless salesmen.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Problem: Losing position if more than one axis wired up to breakout board

« on: April 13, 2012, 09:42:55 PM »

Just to see if it corrects the issue.
Have you tried turning on the rapid override on the settings page, and setting it to a lower value (try 100-150)? Not sure how fast your rapids are, but start limiting the rapids and see if you see results.

If it does that would suggest to me that there might be an issue with motor tuning.
When I tune one motor at a time they seems fine, but when they all start moving together they have issues. So I don't push the limits at tune, I shoot for 70-80% of max rate at tune.

Wish I had a better handle of the proper way to tune and use the max rate for motors.

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Tangent Corner / Re: Everyone is a winner.

« on: April 13, 2012, 09:31:12 AM »

I won too, but I guess I dont trust a woman with a named shabang 

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Instruction manual download?

« on: April 07, 2012, 09:18:07 AM »

Go to the top of the page and look under Support, wealth of good info

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Share Your GCode / Re: Multi pass facing program

« on: April 03, 2012, 10:42:55 PM »

No apologies necessary, when we share, we all learn something new. I just love the many challenges.

There is a lot of talented people sharing on this site.

Thank You and keep blundering. I just wish the Mach3 programming language was even more like Fanuc Macro B because I do like parametric programming. I work with large family of parts and use lookup blocks of code to fill variables. Operator changes one macro variable #500 and when the program starts and reads the #500 variable it jumps to a section that fills all the variables for that part.

Little example of what one of my old turning center main program looks like, including the variable loader program. not all there of course but gives you the idea. Does a several dozen different parts and shapes just uses the same blank shape. The robot side has the same basic program routine but it sets the robot for different blank lengths. So the load, unload and turn around positions can be set with variables, again all by using one input #500 variable by the operator.

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O0001(LATHE SIDE)
(MAIN PROGRAM)
M98P999(SET/GET VARIABLES)
 
N10(READY TO RUN)
M19(ORIENT CHUCK)
M70(SYNC ROBOT LOAD 1ST PART)
M71(SYNC ROBOT UNLOAD/LOAD)
 
M98P50(CALL 1ST PART 1ST SIDE)
M98P8054(TABLE BLOW LOOP)
M19(ORIENT CHUCK)
M70(SYNC ROBOT LOAD 2ND PART)
M71(SYNC ROBOT UNLOAD/LOAD)
 
M98P50(CALL 2ND PART 1ST SIDE)
M98P8054(TABLE BLOW LOOP)
M19(ORIENT CHUCK)
M70(SYNC ROBOT FLIP STATION)
M71(SYNC ROBOT UNLOAD/LOAD)
 
M98P51(CALL 1ST PART 2ND SIDE)
M60(COUNT PART 1)
M98P8054(TABLE BLOW LOOP)
M19(ORIENT CHUCK)
M70(SYNC ROBOT FLIP STATION)
M71(SYNC ROBOT UNLOAD/LOAD)
 
/M99P20(JUMP FINISH ROUTINE)
M98P51(CALL 2ND PART 2ND SIDE)
M60(COUNT PART 2)
M99P10(LOOP ROUTINE)
 
N20(FINISH ROUTINE)
M98P51(2ND PART 2ND SIDE)
G28U0W0(HOME BOTH X Z AXIS)
M98P8054(TABLE BLOW LOOP)
M19(ORIENT CHUCK)
M70(SYNC ROBOT FLIP STATION)
M71(SYNC ROBOT UNLOAD/LOAD)

M98P8054(TABLE BLOW LOOP)
M19(ORIENT CHUCK)
M70(SYNC ROBOT LOAD 2ND PART)
M72(SYNC ROBOT CODE 2 UNLOAD)
M30

O0050(FIRST SIDE)
G28U0.W0.
G#506

N10
G0T05M347
G97S3200M04
M98P41(DRILL HOLE)
M54(TABLE BLOW ON)
 
N20
G0T03
G97S1079M04
G0X[#502+0.2]M8
Z0.1
G50S3800
G96S1100
M98P42(FACE FRONT)

N30
G0T06
G97S3500M04
M98P43(BORE ID)

N40
G0T07
G97S3800M04
M98P44(BACKBORE FACE)

G0G28W0.T0
G0G28U0.
M99
 
O0051(SECOND SIDE)
G#506
N500
G0T04
G97S1079M04
G0X[#502+0.2]M8
Z[0.1+#504]
G50S3800
G96S1100
M98P#508
G0Z2.
G28W0T0
G0G28W0.M9
G28U0.
M99

O8054(BLOW TABLE LOOP)
M54(TABLE BLOW ON)
G4P1000(DWELL 1 SEC)
M55(TABLE BLOW OFF)
M99

O0999
N2(GET GROUP ID)
IF[#500EQ10]GOTO10(SB 1.35 W/HUB.847)
(several more if statements here)
(stays here till variable 500 is set to part)
GOTO2

N10(SB 1.35 W/HUB.847)
#502=3.45(X DIAMETER)
#501=0(SIDE 1 Z SETBACK)
#503=-0.260(SIDE 2 Z SETBACK)
#504=0(BACKFACE Z OFFSET)
#505=0(X HUB OFFSET)
#506=54(WORKOFFSET NUMBER)
#507=100(SIDE 1 PROGRAM)
#508=101(SIDE 2 PROGRAM)
#509=0(WORKOFFSET Z OFFSET)
M99


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Share Your GCode / Re: Multi pass facing program

« on: April 03, 2012, 07:01:10 PM »

I know, I been programming since 1984, Started this post for those that were new to sub programs and would like to see some examples of there use and how to apply them to their needs.