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LazyCam (Beta) / Relocating the 0,0 origin.

« on: December 02, 2010, 03:14:23 PM »

I am exporting a DFX file from AutoCad14 as DXF 12 into LC taking a good care that the origin at AutoCad is where I wanted and at 0,0,0. I checked the "loading options" at LazyCam and check mark the As drawn box so the origin keeps in it's place. Doesn't happens, the origin at LC is at the corner of the drawing and if I relocate it were it should be there is no way that I can change it to 0,0. I have tried to change the MinX and MinY of that point and its impossible! There is something that I am overlooking or don't know how. I am sure that somebody had this problem before. Please give me a hand. Thanks

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Problem with the A axis

« on: November 20, 2010, 08:55:08 AM »

Thank you Rich, a lot of information for me to digest but I’ll go one by one and try to make the most out of it.  Thanks, I’ll keep it posted.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Problem with the A axis

« on: November 17, 2010, 09:49:37 PM »

Sorry: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yO3_qWfwPjs&feature=related

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Problem with the A axis

« on: November 17, 2010, 09:49:08 PM »

I can't find the exact site but this site will give you an idea of what I wanted to do. In this video the xyz does the job. I want the Y axis converted to A and use the rotary table holding the material to be cut. Thanks

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Problem with the A axis

« on: November 16, 2010, 10:53:11 AM »

Thanks, I'll look for it.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Problem with the A axis

« on: November 16, 2010, 10:23:23 AM »

Thank you Rich but I am using Mach 3 not Mach 2.  I wonder what I have to do or buy to be able to cut this medallion, its 5” diameter and ¼” thick. I went to Youtube and watched some cuttings like the one I wanted to do. The piece is hold on a rotary table like mine looking up, parallel to the Z axis and the movement are on the Y, the Z and the A axis. They use Mach3 software, you can see it. I am sure someone in the forum has cut something like this before. Thank you.

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General Mach Discussion / Problem with the A axis

« on: November 15, 2010, 02:15:35 PM »

I am new and learning how to use my mill. I just build a rotary table and when I write the code for simple cuts its works perfectly  but when use LazyCam I got into problems. There is something that I am not doing well, either on Mach3 V2 or on LazyCam. I have a GPEG image of a round medallion that I want to cut on my rotary table flat. I load the image on LazyCam and use the spiral cut for the gcode generation. I got the gcode on Mach3 it’s and looks OK but on X,Y coordinates not on A axis. To do that I use the Wrapper program to convert the Y axis to A axis and it doest it good but the converted gcode is weir and doesn’t correspond with the medallion cuts. I read somewhere that I could use the Indexer wizard at Mach3 to generate the code but I don’t have an idea of how to use that wizard. Please help me with any idea to get on track. Thanks.