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General Mach Discussion / Re: My favorite things this year!

« on: November 30, 2012, 10:48:32 PM »

Got any more pics of that machine? I'm building something similar.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: I am new and have a few dumb questions

« on: November 30, 2012, 10:03:20 PM »

You should receive the license file via email. Where did you purchase it from?

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Third party software and hardware support forums. / Re: Drilling cycle from Bobcad

« on: November 30, 2012, 01:13:09 PM »

For future reference, CNC Zone has some helpful BobCAD users.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: How to? Long accel/decel profile

« on: November 30, 2012, 10:33:43 AM »

The online calculator I was using was broken (sort of. )
Your right, but you have to double it to get to 115200 ipm in 0.5 seconds. So it's a little less than 10G. Still pretty damn fast.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: How to? Long accel/decel profile

« on: November 30, 2012, 09:40:37 AM »

Not sure why this wasn't more clear yesterday, but if you're going half the ditance, the velocity just doubles, if accel is linear. So, it's 115,200ipm, accelerating at 96G. He wants an s-curve accel, so it will actually be higher than 96G, I've seen a linear stage accelerating at 3-4G, and it's so fast you almost can't see it move.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: How to? Long accel/decel profile

« on: November 29, 2012, 11:05:27 PM »

You have to accel AND decel to a stop in that one second, so you need to go much faster than the 57600ipm. I guessed at 75,000. Accel goes up as well.

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Finished Screens / Re: Mach3 2010 Screenset - Now available

« on: November 29, 2012, 10:59:32 PM »

1) It won't. It was finished the day I released it. If there is a 2014 screenset, it will be completely different.

2) Attached

3) I think I had one actual bug reported in the two years It's been available. Afaik, there are no bugs. Basically, other than the probing macros, everything works like the normal screenset, it just looks better.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: How to? Long accel/decel profile

« on: November 29, 2012, 06:31:41 PM »

Is my math right? Off the top of my head, that seems to be somewhere upwards of 75,000 inches/minute? Accelerating at something like 600G? As 1G would get you about 125" in 1/2 second.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Importing DXF files

« on: November 29, 2012, 12:45:58 PM »

Older versions of Mach3 (when the manual was written) had a .dxf importer. Several years ago, it was replaced by LazyCAM.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: How to? Long accel/decel profile

« on: November 29, 2012, 11:47:28 AM »

The new Gecko G215 can do this on it's own, but it hasn't been released yet.