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General Mach Discussion / Re: CNC Painting Machine/Robot

« on: April 02, 2015, 09:01:26 PM »

Hi there, I suggest maybe buying a large ink jet printer, it would have most of the features that I think you may be looking for.

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General Mach Discussion / Driver gone crazy

« on: February 02, 2015, 07:04:47 PM »

Hi there, my cnc router was running fine until about two weeks ago, the Y axis started to miss steps and does not change directions sometimes, the other times it would work fine, I have swapped the motors and it seems to be with the one driver, the drivers are 2M542 Leadshine drivers, I had them for about two years and never had any problems with them until now, is there anyone out there using the same drivers, and if they have similar problems or know of a way to fix it I would be more than happy to hear from you, or anyone else who may have some suggestions please feel free to jump in.

Regards
Nick

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Share Your GCode / Re: Free DXF file art disk download

« on: August 19, 2014, 07:16:33 AM »

Thanks very much Jason, I have downloaded them and I am goint to put them to good use, make some cut outs for the local kindergarten and school.

Regards

Nick 

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Sharing Mach 3 between two machines

« on: August 09, 2014, 11:06:18 PM »

Hi Nick,
if you want a new claen setup you can click " create profile " at  Mach startup and choose a name for the new profile
If the setup you need is similar to the existing profile, you can copy that by copying the XML file.
You find the xml configuration file in the Mach3 folder eg.  Mach3Mill.xml to Mach3Mill_1.xml
Next time you open Mach you see the new Profile witch you can use for the new setup.
hope that helps.
Alex

tHANKS CNCALEX, I WILL DO A CLEAN SET UP,

REGARDS
NICK

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Sharing Mach 3 between two machines

« on: August 09, 2014, 11:04:48 PM »

Yes I WILL BE USING TWO DIFFERENT SET UPS .. MOTORS AND bOb, SO I WILL SET IT UP AS A DIFFERENT MACHINE .  THANKS FOR YOU HELP 

nICK

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General Mach Discussion / Sharing Mach 3 between two machines

« on: August 08, 2014, 10:17:15 PM »

Hi there, this may already been discussed elsewhere, but here goes, I have built another mill machine and wish to run it on the same computer, is it possible to have two different set ups and how can it be done.

Regards
Nick 

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Screen Colour????

« on: May 06, 2014, 07:33:16 AM »

Thanks Gerry, I will try it with another brighter colour instead of the blue.

Nick

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Screen Colour????

« on: May 06, 2014, 05:42:12 AM »

Thanks Hood, I am trying the white background, it looks very promising.

Nick

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General Mach Discussion / Screen Colour????

« on: May 06, 2014, 02:20:01 AM »

Hi there, a big THANK YOU to all who helped me with my limit switch problems, all advice was used and the end result is great..... so THANK you ALL  ,, just a quick question: at my age the eye sight is starting to play up a bit, the blue project on the black back ground is very difficult to see some times is it possible to change one or the other?  when running a program that is.

Regards

Nick

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General Mach Discussion / Re: LIMIT SWITCHES vs SPINDLE

« on: May 05, 2014, 01:27:14 AM »

Thanks Jeff, I will try and set the debounce like you said, I have already tried the switch deactivate and there is no problem only when I activate the limit switches the problem occurs, and yes it is a vfd spindle whith shieled cable etc

Nick