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General Mach Discussion / Re: Z Axis height limit.
« on: October 09, 2012, 09:32:22 AM »
Yes understand that, i just did not want it to go up a whole inch so i set it to 5mm, as i am cutting some pretty thick guitar bodies. And yes my machine was going to the top of Safe Z on "Cycle start" or I would not have had a drama. Anyway all sorted now

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Z Axis height limit.
« on: October 09, 2012, 07:40:24 AM »
Hi Paul,

As you are taking care of safe Z within the Vectric generated GCode - Within Mach3 Config / Safe Z setup (uncheck allow safe z moves).

Tweakie.
Thanks mate, found it and yes it was set to 1", changed it to work only with the Vectric G code Safe limits, I knew it would be in Mach3 somewhere, Cheers again, Paul.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Z Axis height limit.
« on: October 09, 2012, 07:23:38 AM »
Hi Paul,

Look at your 'Safe Z' setting within Mach3.  ;)

Tweakie.
Ok so now we are getting somewhere, how do I adjust the "Safe Z", Thanks and cheers Paul.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Z Axis height limit.
« on: October 09, 2012, 06:48:15 AM »
Thanks guys, I know about rapid gaps and homing limits and I set them in my Vectric programs. I will put it this way, even if I have no G Code loaded in Mach 3 and I have X,Y,Z all set to zero, then I hit the return to Zero icon it will still lift 1" and then go back to zero. As I have stated when I load the G code and set X,Y,Z to zero it lifts an 1" comes back down to the homing limit (10mm) and then heads off to cut the job, cheers Paul.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Z Axis height limit.
« on: October 09, 2012, 05:55:06 AM »
Thanks for your reply Tweakie, I do set my start/home position as 10mm above the material in Vectric, but for some reason the very first movement of the machine when I click on "Cycle Start" is to travel up 1" then return to Zero then head off to cut the job, once finished it homes back to 10mm above Zero, Cheers Paul. ???

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Z Axis height limit.
« on: October 09, 2012, 03:32:13 AM »
Ok so how do I change that? When I create my toolpaths (In Vectric) I have the option to how far I want the tool to travel and finish above the job, I normally choose 10mm, but still it's first jog is too rise up 1"? Cheers Paul.

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General Mach Discussion / Z Axis height limit.
« on: October 09, 2012, 02:22:07 AM »
G'day Guys, I have a Romaxx WD 1 router and I was wondering how to change how far the Z Axis travelled up upon the start of the cut? When I zero everything at the moment and start to run the program the Z axis travels about an inch up before going to its start point, normally no big deal but I am cutting some thicker guitar bodies and have run into my upper limits a few times, is this adjusted through Mach3? Any help much appreciated, cheers Paul

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General Mach Discussion / Re: New to CNC
« on: June 14, 2011, 10:45:26 PM »
Sorry for the timing in reply I am in Australia, cheers Paul.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: New to CNC
« on: June 14, 2011, 10:44:31 PM »
Thanks for replying Hood, I changed it through the config menu then native units, I did not change steps per unit? It's all new to me sorry. How do I change that, in motor tuning at the moment it says the following. Thanks Paul.

Steps per                     Velocity                                Acceleration                           G's

                             In's or mm"s per min               In's or mm's/sec/sec     

5833                             60                                              3                                 0.000305928               

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General Mach Discussion / New to CNC
« on: June 14, 2011, 07:21:43 PM »
G'day Guys
                          I have just purchased a Romaxx WD-1 CNC router, I am using Vectric Cut3D and Cut2D for my CAM programs and Mach3 for post processing. I am having a problem with the G codes generated. When I load the G code into Mach3 it shows (a guitar body) the object much bigger than it actually is, and if try to run it is also much bigger than it should be? Please be gentle with me, as I am CNC virgin. Also when I got the machine the sample files supplied were correct size when cut, now they are massive and would not fit on the machine. I did switch Mach3 to metric "mm" as I work in metric which is probably why the sample files no longer work, the new files are in metric though and still are way too big, thanks in advance, Cheers Paul.

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