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General Mach Discussion / Special driver

« on: April 01, 2016, 11:45:44 AM »

Just got my Mach machine program running on a new computer again but it was pulsing to fast so pressed special driver and got nothing. How do I get back to the original driver. I clicked it but nothing again? Any ideas how to get back to original driver.

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General Mach Discussion / Suitable computer

« on: March 28, 2016, 12:32:32 PM »

Hi everyone, my computer failed so need to replace it. I'm still using the printer port to control the machine. So need to get an old computer, I have a chance of a Dell OptiPlex 170L but not sure if the pulse rate for this computer is suitable. So I guess what I'm asking is there anyone out there running Mach 3 through a Dell OptiPlex 170L with an Intel Pentium 4 (2.8GHz) processor. If no what's a suitable computer.
Cheers

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Conversion of Denford TRIAC milling to LPT

« on: January 07, 2016, 10:15:49 AM »

Drawings and Info sent to your email.
Best regards Jim.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Step jog wierdness.

« on: November 26, 2015, 02:17:04 AM »

Hi Dickeybird, when I first read you post I hadn't got my glasses on and read it as "swilled out the keyboard with Vodka" however glad you've sorted out your problem. Keep your own recovery going mate, best wishes from this side of the pond. Jim

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Cut time estimation?

« on: October 08, 2015, 12:22:56 PM »

Tool paths page, simulate program run

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach 3 demo prg

« on: September 29, 2015, 12:23:59 PM »

Take it your still having problems, so have you selected the correct parallel port in the config settings and checked the driver is giving the correct pulse.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Missing program

« on: July 29, 2015, 02:28:52 PM »

Cheers, trying to build up courage to go to smooth stepper but resisting as I'm not very good on electronics and understanding how to diagnose problems and faults. I'm sure I will move soon but had loads of problems getting my spindle to work when I first set it up Mach and envisage the same problem if I move to smooth stepper
Once again thanks BR549

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Missing program

« on: July 29, 2015, 01:03:49 PM »

You might have something there BR549, only had the computer running for a couple of weeks as the last one fail on the motherboard. Its an old Dell computer as like most Mach CNC'ers were struggling to find old computer with the correct printer output. What's the situation regarding Windows 10, not that I'm using it on the machine in the workshop but I have a Windows 7 system in the house where I do my programming in the warm then use a USB thumb drive to transfer it to the computer in the workshop. Can I load Windows 10 on my house computer and do programming with Mach3 and still transfer the program to my Windows XP machine connected to the mill?

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General Mach Discussion / Missing program

« on: July 29, 2015, 12:11:15 PM »

Ha anyone had this problem?  Been using Mach for 5 years on a Denford Triac Mill with a few niggling problems but nothing major, however today I had a strange occurrence. I was doing a batch of 12 components and came to the last one and set the machine off on its 15 min cycle cutting the final shape in copper. I decided to tidy up the workshop and after 10 minutes noticed the sound of the cutter cutting had stopped but the spindle was still running. It turned out the CNC program had completely disappeared from the Mach stack screen (it was blank) but the rest of the Mach screens were OK. I re-loaded the program and started the cycle from the start and the cutter followed the original path and completed the component. I was cleaning round the machine and computer and wondered if I had accidentally erased the program. Is it possible to do this?

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach 3 Froze in Middle of Cycle

« on: July 26, 2015, 03:58:50 PM »

First thing to establish are you using the free demo version of Mach as it stop after 500 lines of programming