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General Mach Discussion / Re: Info regarding GetDRO's and etc.....

« on: April 05, 2012, 06:47:24 PM »

Hi, now that is what i was looking for. Great. Rgs, John

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Info regarding GetDRO's and etc.....

« on: April 05, 2012, 06:24:16 PM »

Oh, okay i see. will try and let u know. at work at the moment. Tks, John

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Info regarding GetDRO's and etc.....

« on: April 05, 2012, 06:15:14 PM »

Hi Hood, Thank you. What i'm doing is using the MsgBox GetDRO(43) (just to see and understand what's happening) and the radius is displayed as -2.75 with my tool set at 5.5. i changed the tool to say 8 and then i get -4. Just confused

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Info regarding GetDRO's and etc.....

« on: April 05, 2012, 05:22:14 PM »

Thank you. Does anybody have a script which outputs the current DRO's for your setup. I ask this because the DRO reference doesn't seem to be standard. Again i say this because if i ask for DRO (43) {tool Diam} i get the -tool radius. I would like a list of my DRO's under my current setup. Tks, John

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General Mach Discussion / Info regarding GetDRO's and etc.....

« on: April 05, 2012, 01:42:55 AM »

Hi, what I'm trying to do is find out the link, if there is one, between the screen button's or enter blocks. Don't know how to insert a pic so anyway on the Mach3 Big Blue Screen we have the probe setup and the "plate thickness" enter block, my question is what is the GetDRO number for this block? Similarly there is a  "edge finder dia" on the Offsets screen, what would the GetDRo number be for this be. The reason for my questions is I'm writing a script to find the x, y, and z edge. I have one which is working but don't understand why?

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Help on PMDX-125 & PMDX-107.

« on: March 29, 2012, 08:04:23 PM »

Hi Jackal, Steve gave me all the info i needed it was just me not been able to understand and digest it. But in the end i got it to work. Now I'm fighting with this pulley issue and  motor tuning for the spindle. My spindle is a China special and it runs from 7200RPM (120Hz - Minimum) to 24000RPM (400hz), to get the "S" command and the speed to be the same is proving to be a large challenged. But I will get it right just means hours of reading up in the forums. Regards John

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Help on PMDX-125 & PMDX-107.

« on: March 26, 2012, 02:38:56 PM »

Tks hood, we r busy chatting at this stage. With his help i have got it running but the voltage of the PMDX-1-07 is only 5.7v and not 10v. So maybe there is something wrong with the hardware. But tks in anycase. John

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General Mach Discussion / Help on PMDX-125 & PMDX-107.

« on: March 25, 2012, 07:57:53 PM »

Hi, i guess this topic has been discussed before but after searching the forums i cant seem to find anything!

Can somebody please give me a "set-up for dummy" run down to set-up the PMDX-107. I'm using the PMDX-125 in "Normal mode" and trying to get the PMDX-107 to work. I have got all the info from PMDX but it just confuses me and not sure of what i should or should not see regarding voltages or LED's. I also understand what the VSD wants it is just this PMDX-107

Thank you in advance,

John

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Motor Home/Soft Limits.

« on: March 20, 2012, 04:41:11 PM »

Hey Hood, tks.

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General Mach Discussion / Motor Home/Soft Limits.

« on: March 20, 2012, 03:38:18 PM »

Hi guys,

I know this is an old topic but pls feel for us newbies.....

My home build CNC router has a table size of 1400 x 1400 x 150. The question i have is do I set-up my Soft Limits as x-min = 0 and x-max =1400, y-min = 0 and y-max = 1400, with z-min = 0 and z-max = 150.

Rgs, John