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General Mach Discussion / Re: offsets

« on: July 29, 2012, 05:29:55 PM »

makes sense but i still have the cutter comp issue

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General Mach Discussion / Re: offsets

« on: July 29, 2012, 03:54:26 PM »

okay now i see it but the tool offset on/off wont come on

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General Mach Discussion / offsets

« on: July 29, 2012, 02:42:21 PM »

can i offset my z
say if its not deep enough and want to got -.01 deeper how can i do that
also where is the dia/cuttr comp

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General Mach Discussion / Re: NEW WITH MACH, HAVING ISSUES

« on: July 29, 2012, 10:58:22 AM »

SUCCESS after a nightmare weekend of trial and error

just before giving in and buying a new motor i had a thought

i said i will switch my x motor, the one giving me issues, with my z motor, working fine
in switching i remembered i took off 2 screws i originally thought were binding the coupler that were over the leadscrew on the side of the machine
so i put those back on while swaping motors, re tuned x axis and 3 test runs later
a 1.5 pocketed circle and a 3in circle contoured in multiple passes
and then finally back to my original program with the irregular arcs all 3 came out without stepping over like it was preiviously doing
no more lost steps, thanks a ton to HAL and HOOD
you guys helped me get my machine going
cant thank you enough!

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General Mach Discussion / Re: NEW WITH MACH, HAVING ISSUES

« on: July 28, 2012, 08:12:38 PM »

odd thing is that before i went to run the last program i made 5 attempts with smiple squares and circles with multiple passes
a 2.5' circle was the only one that failed
all the squares came out perfect

cuz im cutting out and irregular shape and it seems that its having difficulties with arcs

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General Mach Discussion / Re: NEW WITH MACH, HAVING ISSUES

« on: July 28, 2012, 08:02:25 PM »

it did not appear to be off as much as it was while contouring

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General Mach Discussion / Re: NEW WITH MACH, HAVING ISSUES

« on: July 28, 2012, 07:48:29 PM »

sounds good, but my single block wont work, the code in mach stops but the machine keeps on going

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General Mach Discussion / Re: NEW WITH MACH, HAVING ISSUES

« on: July 28, 2012, 07:23:01 PM »

i dont how i will be able to tell if its shifting while cutting air, seing how it only shifts about .015

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General Mach Discussion / Re: NEW WITH MACH, HAVING ISSUES

« on: July 28, 2012, 07:07:22 PM »

still shifting almost incrementally by depth
i mean wtf

is it too much to think a 1/8 4 flute endmill cant take .05 per pass at 20in per min with out pulling the machine of course?
i mean its wood were talkin here

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General Mach Discussion / Re: NEW WITH MACH, HAVING ISSUES

« on: July 28, 2012, 06:45:37 PM »

im gonna do a test run and see if my issue has been resloved,
will repost with results