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General Mach Discussion / Re: Turning off the display

« on: October 07, 2012, 10:44:53 AM »

I thought it did stick, but I just checked here, and your right, it does stay on. You could make a macro (M code) that turns it off, and call it in the Initialization string, to turn it off every time you start Mach3.

DoOemButton(132) will turn it off.
(It will also turn it on if it's already off)

Thank you, I found that the led for the toolpath is #27, so I guess the macro would need to check that led and if its active call the dooembutton routine.

My first attempt went like this;

if oemled(27) then dooembutton(132)

of course the scripter puked with the comment formatting error.  I have tried looking thru the installed macros for examples but failed miserably. 
I also tried searching with little to no results that dealt with this issue.
Any and all suggestions would be welcome.

John

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Turning off the display

« on: October 06, 2012, 10:00:32 PM »

I think this old desktop has an external video card with minimal ram onboard, but the motherboard will only accept up to 500 megs of ram, so when I load a gcode file with half a million lines, it takes forever to load, and it causes eratic behavior, if I turn off the tool path display its just fine, but I keep forgetting to turn it of until I've already started loading the gcode, so was hoping there was a way to make it stay off.

John

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General Mach Discussion / Turning off the display

« on: October 06, 2012, 08:36:22 PM »

I found that turning off the display using the button on the diagnostics page relieved a number of problems I've been having but when I restart mach I have to set it again, is there something I can do to make it stick?

John

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General Mach Discussion / Re: i must be totally stupid and dumb

« on: October 06, 2012, 08:31:00 PM »

on the videos page, http://www.machsupport.com/videos/ , did you scroll to the bottom of the screen and did you see a control to play the videos?

John

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G-Code, CAD, and CAM discussions / Re: Help , newbie needing a ?FREE? cam program that will translate an STL to G code

« on: September 29, 2012, 05:39:53 PM »

Nope , STILL haveing problems.

How do I change/add to an stl file to be able to post it here?

you could put it in a zip file.

John

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Can anyone explain this?

« on: September 15, 2012, 09:54:40 PM »

My first thought would be stalling, try reducing your velocity and accelleration for all axis and see if it still does it.

John

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Awesome Cowboy Welcome Sign DXF File

« on: September 13, 2012, 03:50:49 PM »

Thank you, its beautiful.

John

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General Mach Discussion / Re: JNC-40M configuration?

« on: September 03, 2012, 04:09:32 PM »

that image seems to show g0 active
what does it do if you type G1 x50 then G1 x200?
John

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Compensating for table misalignment

« on: September 03, 2012, 04:03:49 PM »

Hello,
This is my first CNC build and I have completed a project with a 30x48 table. I am using Mach3 and CamBam for design. After setting all the parameters I checked the accuracy by measuring cuts across the x and y axis and have an acceptable tolerance of about .002 in. My problem is the table is slightly off relative to the gantry in both the x and y axis. it appears to be linear so I am asking if there is a way to compensate the z axis relative to the position on the table so that when I set up a milling operation the depth of the cut is constant across both x and y.
Thank you for any help

You refer to compensating on the z, if that part refers to the table not being flat to the routers movements, you could cut the table surface and that should fix it for the most part.

John

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Bad Character Line 0

« on: August 29, 2012, 11:41:08 PM »

can open in notepad, copy /paste

John