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General Mach Discussion / Re: Z axis will not go up

« on: June 04, 2016, 05:40:06 PM »

I just noticed the y and x would only move so far in the minus direction. If I turn off the soft limits it moves fine.Any idas on that? Thanks

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General Mach Discussion / Z axis will not go up

« on: June 04, 2016, 05:21:39 PM »

While running a program my machine stopped and the message said something about smoothstepper ran out of something now I cannot move the z axis up. All other axis move even the z diwn

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General Mach Discussion / Stopping program while running

« on: April 08, 2016, 12:09:14 AM »

I have had to Stop my program while running and when I press cycle start it seems to lose its place.Should I raise up the cutter before pressing cycle start?

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General Mach Discussion / Re: cutter problem

« on: April 03, 2016, 05:01:54 AM »

I am cutting at 50% feedrate on mach 3 screen. I could not find a downcut bit in 1/8

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General Mach Discussion / cutter problem

« on: April 02, 2016, 05:47:09 PM »

I am cutting a .0625 deep 1/8 wide groove in birch plywood and this is what it looks like.Feedrate is ay 50% and router is at 23000 rpm.What would be the problem?Thanks

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General Mach Discussion / Re: program stops while cutting

« on: March 25, 2016, 09:23:02 PM »

Yes

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General Mach Discussion / Re: program stops while cutting

« on: March 25, 2016, 08:19:47 PM »

Yes I did

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General Mach Discussion / Re: program stops while cutting

« on: March 24, 2016, 09:39:54 PM »

I built a new machine and used a ethernet board and I have not had any problems. I am thinking it was the usb board

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General Mach Discussion / Mach Pendant for ipad

« on: December 09, 2015, 05:17:57 PM »

Has anyone used the mach pendant app.I have it working but cannot figure out the webcam part

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General Mach Discussion / program stops while cutting

« on: November 26, 2015, 07:42:50 PM »

I am using mach 3 with a usb smoothstepper,every so often it stops comunicating and I have to restart the computer.Today it stopped at 160460 and got lost so when I hit cycle start it cut right across my job.Is there a way to start where it stopped after a restart of the computer