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General Mach Discussion / Re: New PC Loosing Steps (I think)

« on: May 31, 2010, 06:23:58 PM »

On my old Dell, Mach3 will NOT run smoothly unless set to Standard PC. That very well could be the problem.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: tool offsets questions - G41/G42 and G43 behaviour

« on: May 31, 2010, 03:31:38 PM »

You should do a G40 before a tool change, and re-call the G41/G42 after. You're asking for trouble if you don't. It may not even work.

Not sure, but the G43 may stay in effect, but I believe it will be with the previous offset.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: New PC Loosing Steps (I think)

« on: May 31, 2010, 02:20:08 PM »

How about this?
http://www.machsupport.com/forum/index.php/topic,14905.msg99254.html#msg99254

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General Mach Discussion / Re: cuting snails and helices (helixes?) - parametrics problems

« on: May 31, 2010, 08:30:36 AM »

I saved an old post from Art from the Yahoo Group, where he calls this a "hidden feature". I use it all the time for circular pocketing. I don't see any reason why it would not remain in version 4, but you'd really have to ask Brian that.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: help with settings

« on: May 29, 2010, 07:55:56 AM »

What Hood said.

Go to the diagnostics page and see if the switch is being detected.

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VB and the development of wizards / Re: mach3 and beam saw

« on: May 28, 2010, 10:27:42 PM »

I think you mean it cuts the clamps on small parts? So after the beam comes down, you want to open the clamps, and back them up before the cut?

How are you creating the g-code? I think what you want to do may be better handled in the g-code, or whatever creates it.

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Mach Screens / Re: How to start cycle? New to screen design

« on: May 27, 2010, 11:56:06 AM »

Do you have a reset button? You'll have to push reset before you can run code.

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Mach3 under Vista / Re: Will MACH3 ever support 64-bit systems? Officially? FYI, it's 2010

« on: May 25, 2010, 12:09:09 PM »

Well, I wish I knew that before I bought my PC.

Of course, with the missleading information in the misslabeled "minumum requirements" section of the ArtSoft home page, how was I to know that "32 bit version" is actually a maximum unlike the other things listed like Ghz and RAM that are truly minimums.

If I only knew then what I knew now...........

No offense, but this is a misunderstanding on your part about how PC's work. 32bit and 64 bit are completely different systems. They aren't thought of in terms of minimum and maximum. Software is either 32 bit or 64 bit. When it says 32 bit Windows is required, it is. And, you can't run 64 bit software on 32 bit windows either.

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FAQs / Re: MACH3 version 043

« on: May 23, 2010, 04:04:18 PM »

It was an older version with newer comp code. It was for testing only, as it had some other bugs in it. I believe it was removed a while ago.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Bessie Rover 13 router retrofit with Yaskawa servo packs? Need help.

« on: May 23, 2010, 07:06:32 AM »

You can also run them with a DSPMC or Galil.
http://www.vitalsystem.com/web/motion/dspmc.php

Converting a point to point machine to Mach3 control in not for the faint of heart. There is another thread here of someone converting a Busellato. Might want to search for it.