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General Mach Discussion / Re: Noob here

« on: August 30, 2018, 10:03:22 AM »

First, It's always been recommended to NOT use Mach3 with a parallel port on a laptop. In most cases, it doesn't work well.

Imo, it doesn't make a lot of sense these days to try to run Mach3 on a parallel port. (You could argue that it doesn't make much sense to even be using Mach3 these days)

Spend the $125 for a UC100 and you can use any computer you want, with any OS you want.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Noob here

« on: August 29, 2018, 06:39:27 AM »

Well, in defense of 'some' of them i must say that the Snapmaker(China machine) is one of the best i seen yet,

Looking at their website and Kickstarter page, I would say that you are comparing apples and oranges.

That Snapmaker appears to be lightyears ahead of the cheap mass produced chinese machines like the one in this thread.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Noob here

« on: August 28, 2018, 08:45:00 PM »

Plenty of people buy those machines and have good luck with them. And plenty more have bad luck. They tend to be decent mechanically, but the electronics are 50/50 at best.
Any similar machine from China will have the same issues.. There's a reason that they cost a LOT less than anything else... You get what you pay for.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: x, y and z keyboard commands

« on: August 28, 2018, 11:49:04 AM »

So some of the motors don't work at all, even if you run g-code?

If the machine was working, it sounds like your installation has become corrupted.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Noob here

« on: August 28, 2018, 07:44:34 AM »

Iam just now getting my brain around/use to accept that the machine is not ready to run, but now i am gonna need a ekstern motion controller aso(first i learn about it exist yesterday).. that all, just try to get all of it into my head :-)

That machine comes with an external USB motion controller. You just don't know what kind it is. There are probably 50 different chinese controllers out there.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Windows 10: Why are base sheets of Mill, Plasma, and Turning Identical?

« on: August 27, 2018, 08:05:29 PM »

If you are not seeing the Lathe screen, then you're shortcut is not working correctly.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: x, y and z keyboard commands

« on: August 27, 2018, 08:03:57 PM »

Define "not correctly". If they work, but move the wrong axis or the wrong direction, than it's quite possible that your machine is setup incorrectly.

If they don't work at all, try Config > Hotkeys.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Coordinates don’t change

« on: August 27, 2018, 08:02:36 PM »

Run Drivertest exe, and post the results.
Disregard any mention of System Excellent.

What you are looking for is a steady pulse rate that's close to the kernel speed. If the Kernel Speed is 25Khz, you should see a pulse rate close to 25000.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Noob here

« on: August 27, 2018, 08:00:47 PM »

When you buy a cheap chinese machine, you really don't know what you are going to get.

My guess is that it is a USB controller, and it actually will work with 64 bit versions of Windows 10. But that's just a guess.
Quite often, the Chinese seem to cut and paste descriptions from one item to the next, and they are often incorrect.

Since it says USB control, you could send it right back at their expense if it's not.

Having said that, be prepared to at some point replace all the electronics in that box, as they are known to fail quite often. I've also seen lots of reports of the spindle control not working.

And lastly, the machine will almost certainly come with a pirated Mach3 license and/or cracked copy of Mach3, and the USB controller may not work as well with a valid license and legitimate copy of Mach3.

Buyer beware.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: feedrate 0 during program run

« on: August 27, 2018, 02:07:24 PM »

Are you using the parallel port, or a motion controller? It could be an issue with a motion controller.