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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach 3 problem

« on: August 02, 2013, 09:19:08 PM »

sounds like lost steps while plunging?

John

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Insert a sequence anywhere on toolpath?

« on: July 18, 2013, 06:43:01 PM »

OK... I thought it worked but something is strange...

This is the code I insert:
G28.1 Z8
G92 Z0
G00 Z2.5
G92 Z0
G00 Z100

The problem is now that for some reason Mach doesn't follow the sequence from top to bottom. It starts with the rapid move to Z100 and then do the G28.1 move and then do the offset to 2.5... I use exactly the same code in all parts we cut normally.

Am I doing something wrong or could I force it in a certain direction?

CD

could force it like this

G28.1 Z8
While ismoving()
Wend
G92 Z0
While ismoving()
Wend
G00 Z2.5
While ismoving()
Wend
G92 Z0
While ismoving()
Wend
G00 Z100

just a thought

John

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General Mach Discussion / Re: How to save the x,y,z axis tool position with Mach3 Mill?

« on: July 07, 2013, 03:56:55 PM »

maybe the OP is looking for offsets and runtime?

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General Mach Discussion / Re: RE:Mach 3

« on: July 01, 2013, 10:10:53 PM »

will the hobby version support the parallel port?

John

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Feature Requests / Re: Probing Surface to adjust Depth of Carvings on Non-Planar Surface??

« on: June 26, 2013, 09:41:36 PM »

I have used mach cloud to convert point cloud to stl, worked fine for engraving a gunstock.

John

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Haywire Mach3 and bit destruction

« on: May 05, 2013, 04:12:14 PM »

I think the G43   H21 in this line is invoking the offsets

N140G00G43Z1.0000H21

you can either remove them from the table, correct them to function as intended or remove the g43...h21 from that line

John

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Im new to the Mach3 program

« on: May 01, 2013, 07:05:29 PM »

if your profile name is MILL_JAC, your xml file will be named MILL_JAC.xml .

John

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Motor Tuning Troubleshooting

« on: April 27, 2013, 06:34:33 PM »

The only part I can answer for you is that yes a profile can become corrupted.  If you suspect that it is corrupted, you can change the extension of that profile to something like .bak then check in C:\Mach3\xmlbackups if you installed to the default folder and locate a file with your profile name with a date you know was working, copy it to the Mach3 folder and change its extension to .xml  . That should fix it if its the profile causing your problems.

John

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G-Code, CAD, and CAM discussions / Re: MachIII GCode Leadin questions

« on: April 22, 2013, 09:55:42 AM »

leadins would be defined in your gcode.

John

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Finished Screens / Re: Another 2010 Screen Question

« on: April 17, 2013, 06:35:51 PM »

Did you copy all the macros over to the new profiles?

John