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G-Code, CAD, and CAM discussions / Re: Milling Is Off Center

« on: November 20, 2015, 04:09:57 PM »

" I just did a sign with a vcarve border then a .125 offset from the border where it cuts out the sign from the workpiece.."

If your v-carve border did in fact cut properly and the preview in V-Carve looked correct for the cutout then the problem is not with V-Carve or Mach3 it is your machine.

Did you reduce your speed and acc by 50% as Tweakie said?

Ray

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SmoothStepper USB / Re: How are folks Homing the Slaved Axes when using a Smoothstepper ?

« on: November 12, 2015, 04:44:20 PM »

I had an issue with that when I first got an ESS. 
The setup screen for the ESS controls the debounce for the inputs not Mach3.

That is where I would start.
Ray

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SmoothStepper USB / Re: How are folks Homing the Slaved Axes when using a Smoothstepper ?

« on: November 12, 2015, 11:02:33 AM »

Thread is a little old but mine is still working fine.
What problems are you having?

Ray

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Quick slaved axis question

« on: November 06, 2015, 08:13:01 PM »

Then give it a try it may work for your situation.
Mach does allow different settings for the main and slave motors and they do run at different speeds.
don't ask how I know.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Quick slaved axis question

« on: November 06, 2015, 07:39:32 PM »

A slaved axis would usually mean you have two identical motors with identical gearing to move one axis.  if the settings were not identical the axis would skew and lock up when one side moved slower than the other.

If both motors would run at different speeds big problems.


Will Mach3 run the slaved motor at different settings than the main motor?   Yes but not for very long.
Ray

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Help please! Xp works fine------ Windows 7 does not, Help

« on: November 06, 2015, 07:24:28 PM »

go to this site ftp://machsupport.com/Mach3/ and scowl down to version 062.

Uninstall and delete Mach3 and the folder C:\Mach3 restart computer.

There may be other reasons for this problem but this is where to start.

Ray
 

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Help please! Xp works fine------ Windows 7 does not, Help

« on: November 05, 2015, 04:19:25 PM »

you can try to uninstall Mach3 and then install Mach3 version 062.
Should work fine

Ray

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General Mach Discussion / Re: PC thrown a wobbly?

« on: October 02, 2015, 12:56:51 PM »

Further clues ? ............... when I go into config I can access all the sub tabs except motor tuning.  Just nothing appears on the screen when i try to access it.


That happened to me once. Save your XML file and reload Mach3.

Ray

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Missing steps on direction change

« on: September 30, 2015, 05:16:32 PM »

You may want to change the Active State of the motor pulse output to see if that helps.

Ray

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Feedrate override makes machine stutter

« on: September 30, 2015, 07:54:29 AM »

yes I had the same problem you are having with version 66.  Version 62 seems to work fine.
Ray