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General Mach Discussion / Re: 4th Axis Addition!!!
« on: December 15, 2012, 06:05:03 PM »
Guys,
Just thought I would follow up. I took everyones advice and bought another breakout board and parallel port. I have finally finished all of the Christmas gifts that my wife requested!!!! The Vectric software that I bought a year and a half ago is pretty good stuff. No telling what I could do with it if I read the tutorials!!!! Christmas gifts was the trade off for the purchase of the 4th axis. It will be here Monday. I finally set down made backups and screen shots of everything. I had to make some changes because one of my slaved axis was actually A. Never thought I would use it at the time, but the cnc stuff seeems to be a sickness!!!! Hopefully tomorrow I will get everything wired in and ready. I've got a spare stepper and amp that I am going to test with. Wish me Luck and thanks for everyone's help.
Jamie
Just thought I would follow up. I took everyones advice and bought another breakout board and parallel port. I have finally finished all of the Christmas gifts that my wife requested!!!! The Vectric software that I bought a year and a half ago is pretty good stuff. No telling what I could do with it if I read the tutorials!!!! Christmas gifts was the trade off for the purchase of the 4th axis. It will be here Monday. I finally set down made backups and screen shots of everything. I had to make some changes because one of my slaved axis was actually A. Never thought I would use it at the time, but the cnc stuff seeems to be a sickness!!!! Hopefully tomorrow I will get everything wired in and ready. I've got a spare stepper and amp that I am going to test with. Wish me Luck and thanks for everyone's help.
Jamie