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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach 3 and CorelDRAW.
« on: January 13, 2011, 11:46:10 AM »
Instead of using SheetCAM, would I be able to use Vectric Cut2D? 

Thanks,
Lu

Yes, you can use any CAM program. The key is the DXF Tool to get a usable .dxf file

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Windows Project (;-)
« on: January 13, 2011, 11:44:48 AM »
I can tell that stripping all the unused features of XP using the XPlite software made the PC (which is far not the best out there nor a new) boot VERY fast. 23 seconds to fully load Windows! About 20 seconds faster than before I stripped it. Not that it runs Mach3 better this way, I just like it being loading fast.

BTW, Jeff, isn't it with the Smooth Stepper? With the SS I can switch screens and such (but still prefer to avoid doing it) while running a program and nothing wrong happens.

Dan

My 1Ghz PIII boots almost as fast with a standard XP install, and only uses 65MB of RAM when running. Pretty lean imo.

My much faster dual core PC with 3 years of programs installed takes well over a minute to boot, and uses over 400MB of RAM.

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During this process the slaved axis is temporarily decoupled from the master.  And this is when different settings between master and slave will cause problems.  Even homing speed.

Especially Homing Speed. Learned that one first hand. :o


I think you're making a big issue out of nothing. In over 5 years, you're the second person I've seen worrying about this prior to actually using it.
But I've never seen one complaint from the hundreds of people using it on a daily basis. Almost all the routers you see being built on CNC Zone use slaved gantries, and a lot of them do very precise work.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Newby needs advice
« on: January 12, 2011, 09:11:40 PM »
You'll need another software package to generate the g-code for your engravings. Mach3 just reads the g-code, it can't create the code you need.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Windows Project (;-)
« on: January 12, 2011, 09:09:04 PM »
I would think that the best way to go about this is one of those 3rd party apps that lets you strip down the install.
Don't have any experience myself, though.

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FAQs / Re: RESET- E-stop & Limit switch's issue
« on: January 12, 2011, 06:22:04 PM »
You've got noise giving you false triggers on your switches. Do you have shielded wire on your switches?

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Finished Screens / Re: Mach3 2010 Screenset - Now available
« on: January 11, 2011, 08:43:28 PM »
Nope. Don't have a lathe, and wouldn't know where to start. Sorry.

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Finished Screens / Re: Mach3 2010 Screenset - Now available
« on: January 11, 2011, 07:05:20 PM »
Something like this.

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Tangent Corner / Re: Stepepr Motor Noise?
« on: January 11, 2011, 11:34:59 AM »
The motors should be silent. Are the current set resistors at the G540 end of the motor cables, or the motor end? They should be at the G540 end.
Gecko has a Yahoo group for support.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Two heads
« on: January 10, 2011, 10:50:47 AM »
Yes its possible, two ways to do it.
One is have your code call X Y and Z commands for one and X A and B for the other.
The other option would be to use the swap Axis feature in Mach so that when you use it the Y and A pins will swap and Z and B will swap. That will mean you will still be able to use Y and Z commands. Problem you would have is you would have to make sure you reference each axis before and after you swap or you could end up in trouble. Well its not really a problem but just more that you would have to make sure you did it.

For both you would either need to take the offset into account in your code or use fixture offsets.

Hood

According to the Wiki, you can't swap two pairs of axis. Only one Swapaxis() can be in effect at a time.

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