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General Mach Discussion / mark topic as read??

« on: December 03, 2011, 02:13:47 PM »

Sorry to be off topic-- but i am trying to get to know this forum .

Is there  a way to mark a topic as "read" so it doesnt display next time i read the forum??

best regards fred evans

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General Mach Discussion / color of the display window

« on: December 03, 2011, 02:04:19 PM »

Hello All

Is there a way in which the default colors used in the toolpath display can be changed.

The position of my lathe in relation to the window in the room makes the default color

very difficult to see ( in fact when there is sun it is almost invisible)

thanks and beat regards
fred evans

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General Mach Discussion / rotate the toolpath display

« on: December 03, 2011, 02:00:13 PM »

Hello All

The manual says that i can rotate the toolpath display.
I can get it to zoom and i can get it to pan-

but how do i get it to rotate.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Finding the position of the tool tip

« on: September 05, 2011, 01:56:50 PM »

thanks-- in config i selected show tooltip-

but regrettably no crosshairs??

fred

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General Mach Discussion / Re: setting - continous jog

« on: September 05, 2011, 01:13:24 PM »

thanks Rich step jog was the problem--


I am attaching the xml you asked for

best regards fred

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General Mach Discussion / Re: setting - continous jog

« on: September 04, 2011, 03:20:09 PM »

man OH man -- thank you for all this input-
best regards fred

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General Mach Discussion / Finding the position of the tool tip

« on: September 04, 2011, 10:31:49 AM »

hello all

when on the manual screen is the position of the tool tip shown anywhere??

i see it is positioned according to the position shown by the DRO- but i dont see any relation to

the axis??

or maybe it is ther axis that i cant see??

but i dont know where the tool is?

so if I jog- i only see the dro changing and not where the tool is going

best regards fred evans

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General Mach Discussion / Re: setting - continous jog

« on: September 04, 2011, 10:24:54 AM »

thank you Rich--

Seeing  the flyout makes everything a lot clearer.

so regarding continous jog . for continous jog the setting of jog cycle doesnt matter?
in fact for continous jog  i need not change anything in the jog controls window??

I see the three buttons on the flyout  cont step and mpg
are these abbreviations of continous jog , step jog , and what does MPG stand for?

But just to clarifty--  there is no s Button on this screen because the screen is set to 1024??

If i used a different screen  resolution then I would have a "S" button??

the explanation about the increment size makes sense- however as  i understand
the term "continous jog" . it means that when i hold an arrow key down jogging will
continue as long as the button is down?? but when i try this it still only increments one
value for every button press? Is there perhaps  a toggle somewhere which i have not set correctly?

many thanks

fred evans

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General Mach Discussion / setting - continous jog

« on: September 03, 2011, 01:22:33 PM »

Hello all - new guy here--
the pdf "using Mach3 turn " page 3-6 shows in figure 3.5   that to turn continous jog on the jog cycle
DRO in the middle of the screen should be set to Zero

On my screen i cannot get the jog cycle to register less than 0.0001  ??

Also shown on the same picture is a DRO called S Inc.
S Inc is missing from my screen

Please help

regards fred evans

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FAQs / Re: cant find "config"logic"

« on: June 12, 2011, 12:24:56 PM »

When you say old versoin do you mean old version of the software or old version of the help file?

regards fred evans