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Show"N"Tell ( Your Machines) / My nearly completed cnc ruter

« on: July 10, 2013, 06:57:51 AM »

I have been building this machine for nearly 18 months, it is nearly completed except for some of the finer details, they seem to take the longest time to complete

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General Mach Discussion / Poem

« on: June 14, 2013, 01:54:15 AM »

Hi there, has any one done any text engraving in wood, more then just a sign, such as a poem or a couple of paragraphs on mdf? If yes I would like to hear from you, I have a poem of about five paragraphs long it needs to be cut into mdf of a certain size to fit into a frame, what is the best program or text writer to use?

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General Mach Discussion / Limit Switch

« on: March 28, 2013, 12:25:10 AM »

Hi there, being very new to the game of cnc and having nearly completed building a cnc router table, I need some advice, I have just conected the limit switches to the x,y and z axis and may I say that they work really well, BUT every time a switch is activated it stops the machine and I have to turn of the power to the steppers in order to move the machine of the mark to re activate the axis, is there an easier way of re-activating the axis without having to turn it back manually by hand to restart the machine? if there is I would greatly appreciate it if some one could explain it to me.

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General Mach Discussion / Z axis

« on: February 19, 2013, 05:16:38 AM »

Hi there, my name is Nick I have only just started in cnc and in the process of building my first xyz table, I have connected the machine and trial running Mach3, but am having a problem withe Z axis, in the program it shows the z axis as going up but on my machine it is actually going down and vise versa, is there a setting in Mach 3 to change the rotation of the stepper from VW to CCW or do I have to change the wiring on the motor or the drivers? Like I said I have very little knowledge of the whole cnc concept, only what I have learned from the internet and looking at a lot of utube videos

Nick