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General Mach Discussion / MACH3 & Servos

« on: April 13, 2006, 10:37:24 AM »

Still relatively new to this whole Mach3 thing, but is Mach3 suitable for controlling Servo motors?

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General Mach Discussion / Re: System gets "Jerky" after it has been running for a while

« on: March 28, 2006, 05:27:12 PM »

Win XP Pro

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General Mach Discussion / Re: System gets "Jerky" after it has been running for a while

« on: March 28, 2006, 04:25:37 PM »

Nope, We run Our mach 3 on a Computer which is not Used for ANYTHING else. ALl it has is Mach 3.
Although of course there allways seem to be huge windows crap in the background, does anyone have a list of what we can "turn off" and or what we really should not?

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General Mach Discussion / System gets "Jerky" after it has been running for a while

« on: March 28, 2006, 02:42:36 PM »

Hello everybody, I am relatively new with the Mach 3 stuff but I have been very pleased with it so far. Recently we have been really using our machine a lot and we have noticed something strange. After running several programs in a row the system starts to pause between moves, instead of the nice smooth flowing motion we have come to expect it is behaving more like our old AH-HA system. I was wondering if anyone else had encountered this or if anyone had any suggestions as to what might be causing it?

Thanks In Advance

Mike
 

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General Mach Discussion / Re: MACH3 & Arcs in XZ Plane HELP! Its going in circles!

« on: February 21, 2006, 10:41:35 AM »

Art,
 I tried toggeling that setting and the circles just got worse! The wierd thing is the G code looks the same for the arcs in the XY plane and they turn out right, but for some reason when in the X-Z plane the G code is either subtley different or the Mach 3 interperets it differentloy.... of course that said, i wouldnt understand the subtleties of the g-code for all I know they are as different as night and day... they just look similar.

Mike

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General Mach Discussion / MACH3 & Arcs in XZ Plane HELP! Its going in circles!

« on: February 20, 2006, 03:06:15 PM »

I am pretty new to the Mach 3 so forgive me if I ask silly questions. Recently I outputted a file from my mastercam and I missed seeing that I had the filters generating arcs in all the planes. When Looked at from the top the toolpath looks ok, however after crashing while running the toolpath a few times I discovered that when viewed from the front the toolpath has all these lovely cricles in it... which it endevours to follow dilligently. So, I have a couple of questions... 1> How can I tell if its the POST telling my Mach 3 something silly? (i.e. what should I look for in the G-Code which would properly define a small arc in the XZ plane where it is only travelling a portion of the arc instead of the entire arc as it does now?)  or 2> is it some blatantly obvious setting I have missed in my Mach 3?

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mastercam X post for mach2

« on: January 24, 2006, 12:54:39 PM »

I Have been using my old AH-HA Post for MasterCam, I have yet to finish all the testing to ensure that all is actually working well, if you still need one by then I would be happy to email it to you.

Mike

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General Mach Discussion / Re: adding second parallel port?

« on: January 23, 2006, 09:50:13 PM »

I Ran into this problem while seting my system up as well. Under the Port settings for whichever LPTx port you want to configure in MACH3 set the port address to 0XCC00 or whatever your system has configured it to.  if the System is set for a lower Address drop the 0 ie In your control panel it is showing a port address of 0278 then Mach 3 should be set to 0x278 if it is showing a port address of cc00 then set it to 0xCC00

Hope that helps

M

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General Mach Discussion / Homing

« on: January 23, 2006, 09:46:22 PM »

!! Warning !! ===>NEWBIE
My Home uses the X-- and Y-- and Z++ Limits for Home as well
It Seems that my system loses the Home NEG Option under the homing option or I just cant seem to get it to stick Either way it seems that sometimes When I hit HOME things move in the right direction and other times I hit HOME and it Moves X & Y in the positive direction which is NOT the right way.
Anyone have any hint as to what I might be doing wrong?

Mike
 

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Spindle Interlocking

« on: January 23, 2006, 09:38:07 PM »

Greetings, I am very new in the use and implementation of Mach 3. I just received Some hardware bundled with the Mach 3 as a long overdue upgrade to my CNC system. I am posting this question here as it seems most relevant to this conversation. I am trying to implement some sort of spindle lock feature as described here. I am a total newbie in coding the Mach 3 stuff so please bear with me if I blunder on terminology. I want my Mach 3 System to "WAIT" for the Spindle to send back a Spindle Ready Signal before running the rest of the program. As well I would like it to monitor that Spindle Ready Condition and if it Changes to halt the execution of the code until such time as it detects a ready signal again. Is this possible?

Thanks
Mike