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G-Code, CAD, and CAM discussions / Re: G0 X0 or G0 X0.0

« on: July 12, 2010, 02:05:57 PM »

Are you sure your not typing "O" instead of zero? It shouldn't make any difference.

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Screen designer tips and tutorials / Re: Can anyone make a "normal" windows screen design please? 0:-)

« on: July 12, 2010, 11:53:11 AM »

Yep, cabinet software is big money. We have Cabnetware, but it was another $5000 to get it to export the .dxf files, so I wrote my own.

If I can write a decent program at a fair price, I might be able to make a few bucks.

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G-Code, CAD, and CAM discussions / Re: G0 X0 or G0 X0.0

« on: July 12, 2010, 11:49:49 AM »

Sounds like your sometimes in incremental mode and sometimes in absolute mode.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Strange Problem- Never seen before

« on: July 12, 2010, 11:14:37 AM »

You're in Incremental mode instead of Absolute. Try G90

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Screen designer tips and tutorials / Re: Can anyone make a "normal" windows screen design please? 0:-)

« on: July 11, 2010, 10:44:58 PM »

Question: you work for Microsoft on Autodesk products?

No, I work in a cabinet shop. Mostly programming a big router. I write a lot of AutoCAD VBA macros, both to make my job easier, and also as kind of a hobby. Pretty much all the 2.5D g-code I run at home is generated from within AutoCAD using a macro I wrote. And at work, I wrote a macro to export individual .dxf files of cabinet parts, along with a parts list in .csv format. We have AlphaCAM, which will read the .csv, and create g-code and nest all the parts. Ready to run nested code from nothing in a few minutes.

The problem is that Microsoft is dropping support of VBA, and Autodesk may soon as well. It hasn't been included in the last two releases of AutoCAD, but is still available for download.

I'd like to write a full featured cabinet package that runs in AutoCAD. Since VBA probably won't be around much longer, .net here I come.

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Screen designer tips and tutorials / Re: Can anyone make a "normal" windows screen design please? 0:-)

« on: July 11, 2010, 09:35:39 PM »

I like  
Is that using the new mach4 version variables?

No. Not sure if there's documentation on the new stuff yet??

It's just a very simple screen set. Whatever I can fit on the one screen, or the 25% that's left after the toolpath.

If not have you looked at how or if you could handle both versions?

No, as I really don't even have the time to be doing this in the first place. This is basically time learning MachScreen and trying a few ideas.


Anyway, here's where I'm at after day 1.

how do you like VS 2010?

Actually, I'm only using the Form Designer, and copying and pasting elements into Photoshop.

99% of my programming is VBA in AutoCAD. But Microsoft is going to force me to learn VB.net, so I'm going to slowly poke around when I have the time. Probably won't get too deep into it until winter.

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Screen designer tips and tutorials / Re: Can anyone make a "normal" windows screen design please? 0:-)

« on: July 11, 2010, 07:20:09 PM »

Started playing with Visual Studio 2010 and decided to update all the controls to match. Looks a lot better, but I had to start over from scratch.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach 3 vs Shopbot vcarving

« on: July 11, 2010, 09:15:17 AM »

Took me a while to find the answer.

>>Some questions:
>>WHen I use CV together with tempest, will tempest blend setting override CV settings? or how it is going to work?

   When CV is on, the blend radius is used, when off it is zero. Same as exact stop but with Jerk limitation. Don't use zero.. Ill make it kill zero's in future.

So, you should have CV on.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach 3 vs Shopbot vcarving

« on: July 11, 2010, 12:51:02 AM »

It's main purpose is to try to get faster 3D carving I think. But it's not faster in the current version, although different g-code will give different results. It uses S-curve accel which is smoother. And I've found that it gives much more accurate and smoother 2D cutting when compared to Mach3's CV mode, with no corner rounding.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach 3 vs Shopbot vcarving

« on: July 10, 2010, 03:31:49 PM »

Use this file.
http://www.machsupport.com/forum/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=12042.0;attach=17759

Unzip into your Mach3 folder, and run it. Pick your profile, and it'll look like mach3. Go to Config>Select Planner Type. Check Tempest, and set the blending radius to .005 or so. That's it. Remember, Pause doesn't work. The only way to stop it is to hit stop, which may cause lost steps.