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General Mach Discussion / Re: Acceloration, cv settings and cut speed

« on: April 30, 2011, 12:43:31 PM »

NONE

(;-) TP

5922

General Mach Discussion / Re: Acceloration, cv settings and cut speed

« on: April 30, 2011, 11:18:38 AM »

Part of the problem may be in your Gcode. A lot of plasma files are made up of microsegmented code it has thousands of short segments of straight lines. IF your motor are a bit weak in the torque department then they will not be able to rocket up to speed before they get to the end of the segmnent and have to start over. Like trying to run 100 mph in rush hour traffic. VERY hard to do with all the stop go motion.

SO the average speed usually falls short of your fast projected speeds.

SO stronger motors may help and better Gcdoe may help

Just a thought, (;-) TP

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G-Code, CAD, and CAM discussions / Re: Elephant Problem

« on: April 30, 2011, 11:04:57 AM »

Your first instintive thought was your best (;-) Just add notes to the file explaining how the file is to be cut and with what size bit.

There are many ways to do it. Scaling will work IF you scale from the CENTER of the drawing so the scaling is applied equally. OR cut both parts from the same exact spot.

Tool offsetting will work once you learn to apply it properly.

offsetting the image in CAD will work

Just a some thoughts, (;-) TP

5924

General Mach Discussion / Re: Hood.....where is he?

« on: April 29, 2011, 07:43:07 PM »

God Speed on your recovery Hood . Hurry back it just is not the same without you here.

(;-) TP

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VB and the development of wizards / Re: Redefine M03 Code to check for RPM's?

« on: April 29, 2011, 11:28:40 AM »

Add this to the end of the M3 macro. It will get you started in the right direction


While GetOemDro(39) < (GetOemDro(202) * .10)
Wend
 
If GetOemDro(39) >= (GetOemDro(202) * .10) Then   
         Message( "Spindle is up to Speed  PRESS CYCLE START to continue" )
   
 End If
 
Code"M01"

End
 

5926

General Mach Discussion / Re: g16 / g83 interaction ??bug??

« on: April 29, 2011, 10:18:38 AM »

Glad you enjoyed.  Gcoding can be fun in many ways(;-)

(;-)TP

5927

General Mach Discussion / Re: Text in an arc

« on: April 28, 2011, 10:18:07 PM »

I use deskengrave it is free and works well.

Just a thought, (;-) TP

5928

General Mach Discussion / Re: circular interpolation not showing on arc cutting surface

« on: April 28, 2011, 10:16:58 PM »

I am with Gerry Most cads make circles as arcs.  I have used most major players in the cad arena. Only the converted art drawing program seems to do the line method.

(;-) TP

5929

General Mach Discussion / Re: tool offsets when writing your own gcode

« on: April 28, 2011, 10:09:40 PM »

The M6T0101 is a tool change call for a lathe not a mill.

(;-) TP

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Modbus / Re: Can I add an enable and disable function in the macropump

« on: April 27, 2011, 09:12:24 PM »

You set up your switch . Inside the Macropump at the start of the code check the value of a led that is turned on /off with the switch.

If the led is on then continue with the rest of the code . IF the LED is off then jump to the end and bypass the pendant code

Just a thought, (;-) TP