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LazyCam (Beta) / z axis movement referance

« on: May 24, 2011, 04:29:45 PM »

Is there a step I am missing when generating code in lazy cam ? I can draw a shape in autocad and get a successful tool path for x an y generated in lazy cam, but what I don't understand is all the z movements in the generated program are without any negetive axis movement. My old allen bradley controller on my mill uses - for any movement toward the work. If I rewrite all the z movements I can run the part program, but know I shouldn't have to do this. What am I missing ? Thanks.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Slaving a 4th axis.

« on: February 02, 2011, 11:46:04 AM »

Hood, Thanks again for your help. I am old and slow to learn but have made some progress thanks to your help. I did get ahold of the vendor and got the correct settings to assign, and it now works as it should.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Slaving a 4th axis.

« on: February 02, 2011, 11:29:11 AM »

Thank you Hood. I suspected this might be the case. I have yet to get any documentation from the vendor of the driver card. Is there a way to figure out wich ports and pins I need to asign as the outputs, or do I need to get this from the card mfg. ? Thanks

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Slaving a 4th axis.

« on: February 02, 2011, 08:55:48 AM »

Hood,  I hope this is what you asked for. If not I can try again. Thanks

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Slaving a 4th axis.

« on: January 31, 2011, 10:20:10 PM »

I will need a little instruction on how to do that. I have Mach installed on a computer that is not on line. I do have a usb to transfer. I looked and found many xml type files. Is it a specific Mach xml that you would need to see ? Sorry I am not to savy in this area. Thanks.

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General Mach Discussion / Slaving a 4th axis.

« on: January 31, 2011, 11:03:35 AM »

I am missing somthing on setting up a slaved axis. I want to slave what my driver board calls axis C. I have tried to set it up identical to X axis ports and pins and check it as C slaved to X. This does not seem to work. I tried setting it up as A after reading other members allways refer to it as this. This did not work either. I restarted program after both of these tries. I know the axis has power to it because it locks up as it should when Mach reset is clicked. Thanks for any help.

 Scott

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LazyCam (Beta) / Re: Not transferring properly to Mach 3.

« on: December 31, 2010, 10:38:31 AM »

Thank you again for your help and fast response. I finally figured out that I had not properly loaded the license file. Once I got it in, all seems good !

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LazyCam (Beta) / Re: Not transferring properly to Mach 3.

« on: December 30, 2010, 10:51:45 AM »

Thank you for your help. I will try the different file from autocad. I can get simple shapes to work fine. It seems to be items with outer shape plus drill points and center holes that are a problem. It is llike only 3/4 of the flat plane info gets to mach 3 and you cut part of the drawing off with scissors.

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LazyCam (Beta) / Not transferring properly to Mach 3.

« on: December 29, 2010, 10:00:24 PM »

Hello, I am new to Mach 3. I am able to draw what I want in auto cad and get a proper rendering in lazy cam. When I transfer the program to Mach 3 parts of the drawing are no longer there. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thank you, Scott.