Messages

5951

Show"N"Tell ( What you have made with your CNC machine.) / Re: RC scale airplane propeller blades.

« on: July 20, 2008, 06:59:43 AM »

Is it called plasma due to it primarily being used for plasma cutters? Interesting to see how you'd make one of these with a plasma cutter.  Good stuff.

No, Discreet named their products after things that are hot, Flame, Inferno, Plasma..... I did some poking around, and Plasma was released quite a few years ago, before Discreet was bought by Autodesk, and apparently no longer exists. It was primarily a 3D modeler for web graphics, I think.

5952

General Mach Discussion / Re: Inverting display toolpath screen

« on: July 19, 2008, 10:50:48 PM »

Hood, he wants X+ to be to the left, and Y+ to be down. I looked around and didn't see any way to do this. CAM programs like V-Carve Pro will write your code this way, but I don't see any way to have Mach display it correctly.

5953

G-Code, CAD, and CAM discussions / Re: Help with multiple passes

« on: July 18, 2008, 06:38:19 PM »

If your using AutoCAD 2002 or newer, I wrote a macro that exports g-code directly from AutoCAD. Far easier than trying to figure out LazyCAM, imo.

http://home.comcast.net/~cncwoodworker/acad/downloads/AC2GCv039.zip

There's more info on it at CNC Zone.
http://www.cnczone.com/forums/showthread.php?t=8226

5954

Works in progress / Re: New Router Screen

« on: July 17, 2008, 08:51:12 PM »

260+ views and no comments? Is anyone using this screen set?

 

5955

Works in progress / Re: New router Screen

« on: July 12, 2008, 09:32:26 AM »

Thanks, Brian.

If someone can verify that everything works correctly, then feel free to put it on the website.

5956

Works in progress / New Router Screen

« on: July 12, 2008, 09:14:19 AM »

Here's a modified version of my other screen set for a single Z axis router.

 I haven't really tested it, but I think everything is working.

There is no toolpath on the Run screen. The reason for this is that CPU usage is about 75% lower without the toolpath on the screen, and when your cutting, you're usually looking at the machine, not the screen. This should make this screen run better on slower PC's than the standard screens.

Unzip all the .png files to Mach3\Bitmaps\Router\ and put the Router.set file in the mach3 folder. It's setup for spindle to use Output 1 and Coolant Output 2.

Let me know if there are any issues and I'll fix em up.

http://home.comcast.net/~cncwoodworker/CNC/Mach3/Screens/M3Router.zip

Also, here's the Real Draw Pro files if anyone wants to modify the Screens (you'll need RealDraw Pro).

http://home.comcast.net/~cncwoodworker/CNC/Mach3/Screens/M3Router_RealDraw_Pro.zip

5957

Screen designer tips and tutorials / Re: Horizontal Slider Format String?

« on: July 10, 2008, 11:20:20 AM »

I guess not? Art said he thought the format string had a V for vertical and an H for horizontal, but that doesn't appear to be the case.

5958

Screen designer tips and tutorials / Horizontal Slider Format String?

« on: July 08, 2008, 09:02:07 PM »

Is a horizontal slider possible?

5959

G-Code, CAD, and CAM discussions / Re: reset home with G code

« on: July 07, 2008, 09:51:38 PM »

Only issue is the order executed is not Z axis first, but I can easily work with that, maybe as simply as execute a G28.1 Z0 followed by g28.1 x0y0.

I think that's the way to go.

5960

Works in progress / Re: Throwing together a simple Router Screen

« on: July 07, 2008, 08:34:42 PM »

Also fixed the Run button LED (thanks to Greolt), and changed the axis DRO's to all match (3 decimals).