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Show"N"Tell ( What you have made with your CNC machine.) / Re: Cylinder Heads

« on: April 30, 2011, 10:23:15 PM »

those who can do do, those who can't teach

you are the master , craftsman

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

« on: April 28, 2011, 10:00:25 PM »

most of the cad programs make circles with as little as 14 segments per quadrent or maybe even per diameter as default. usually a right click on the entity and hit properties and in a "surface" or "solid" tab you can change this to as much as 90. 45 gives me good circles and less code, but only bigger then an inch,

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Help sorting out axes.

« on: April 24, 2011, 08:08:30 PM »

x and y are backwards I think, z looks ok. It's the tool that's going + and - not the part

happy easter

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General Mach Discussion / Re: burned out stepper motor? Symptoms.

« on: April 24, 2011, 03:40:59 PM »

swap driver boards and see if it moves to the other motor.

And how long have you run it it before this started?

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General Mach Discussion / Re: please hellp me

« on: April 23, 2011, 09:37:41 PM »

As I remember after you set each axis you need to save it, lower right I believe . Tic the box?

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Virtual Keyboard

« on: April 18, 2011, 11:46:09 AM »

If you dock your task bar on the left and go in the touch screen keyboard setup and have the keyboard dock upper left you just need to tap it and it flys out. A pen type stylus works well on small screens. even my 24 in monitor is hard for some things with out a stylus

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Virtual Keyboard

« on: April 17, 2011, 01:30:29 PM »

You could try a small usb keyboard, they make a few for the playstations and couch internet surfers. They come in handy if you need to edit the code or tool tables!

I have a touch screen on my bench (wall) next to the machine. And I have a wireless mouse and keyboard that go on a shelf when not in use.

ps. logitec has a combo that only uses 1 usb port for both mouse and keyboard, wireless

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Parallel Port woes - need advice

« on: April 13, 2011, 09:33:56 AM »

If 2 ports do not work go back to just the MB one and, double check in the bios and reboot then goto dev manerger and find it and check the address. then reinstall mach after you uninstall mach AND rename the mach3 folder in c drive. also check add/remove programs for ANY left over card or other drivers or apps that might of been installed.

reboot after every operation, you can not reboot too much during this process

if the mb does prove bad again try the above with the card.

also disconnect the control during ALL of this

caps are not ment to yell:)

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Show"N"Tell ( What you have made with your CNC machine.) / Re: Here's my DIY pendant

« on: April 13, 2011, 05:19:09 AM »

Nice work, have any inside shots?.....

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General Mach Discussion / Re: N00b needs help: Collet slipage on MaxNC/Taig style holder

« on: April 12, 2011, 12:43:11 PM »

I have a sherline which is close in power and .010 is a big cut for alum. Less flutes and either wet lube or Nikx Stikx will help too. the NS is sherline #7560