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G-Code, CAD, and CAM discussions / Re: HELP toolofset, G42

« on: December 01, 2010, 07:04:57 AM »

You need a lead in move. At least an XY position before G42.

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Mach Screens / Re: My First Screen

« on: December 01, 2010, 07:03:52 AM »

I should have clarified that the DRO's will still work fine, even if they don't count.

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Mach Screens / Re: My First Screen

« on: November 30, 2010, 10:10:55 PM »

I think they only count if they are "skinned". Mine don't count either.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Cutter Compensation

« on: November 30, 2010, 08:07:31 PM »

It's a bad idea to do 1/4" arcs with a 1/2" tool. It throws an error for me there. Try making them .26". Any inside radius should always be larger than the tools radius.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Bug in formulas

« on: November 30, 2010, 07:59:07 PM »

I'll confirm that is a pretty nasty bug.
What I found was that jogging any axis other than the one with the formula would cause the one with the formula to not move when you did an MDI move. Doing MDI moves was OK, but jogging did it every time.

Like he said, the biggest problem is that nobody uses it.

I have a felling that this used to work OK, and crept in at some point and nobody noticed.

Actually, I'd always heard that it didn't work while jogging, so maybe it's always been like this? Reading this refreshed my memory.
http://www.indoor.flyer.co.uk/kinematic.pdf

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Cutter Compensation

« on: November 30, 2010, 04:41:29 PM »

Afaik it's only in 3.43.000, which apparently has other issues, so is no longer available.

And Barry, are you running Tormach's version of Mach3? if so, what version is it.

Maybe my use of comp is a lot more basic than others, but it works 100% of the time for me.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Bug in formulas

« on: November 30, 2010, 03:14:22 PM »

I've helped a couple people a few years ago set up formulas to correct an out of square Y axis. Neither reported the problem you have, although it was a much smaller correction.

I'll see if I can test this tonight.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Cutter Compensation

« on: November 29, 2010, 09:38:40 PM »

Reading back a few posts, I don't think the new version is going to work the way you want either. There's a thread here somewhere started by Brian that layed out rules that must be followed for the new comp to work correctly.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Cutter Compensation

« on: November 29, 2010, 09:35:32 PM »

Nope. But just like I said 2 years ago, I use it all the time, and it works fine for me.

The comp was redone and released in a test version, but that version had other bugs and was pulled. Don't expect to see the updated comp until the next version of MAch3 is released.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: setting home limits and display of the software

« on: November 29, 2010, 11:57:49 AM »

View menu, load screens, and choose 1024.set