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General Mach Discussion / Re: return to 0, TOO fast

« on: April 23, 2017, 06:29:37 AM »

Thanx, this gives me a good startingpoint. I will fiddle around this afternoon and will try a lot of different values. I am sure i will have figured it out before end off the day.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: return to 0, TOO fast

« on: April 22, 2017, 10:52:13 AM »

Thank you Tweaky,

By 10 percent of the figure, do you mean if the max velocity is 5000 to put the acc/de-acc on 500 ??

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General Mach Discussion / return to 0, TOO fast

« on: April 22, 2017, 06:35:17 AM »

  Hi there,

I am running Mach3 via a USB break-outcard under windows10. Great and very stable, no problems so far (since about 4 months)

I needed a slave axis to support my X-axis. The portal is about 700 mm wide and 2000 mm long, so one axis on it's own didn't do the work good enough. I installed the second axis (A-Axis), made sure the steps an speed are exactly equal including the acc/de-acc. I use the same drivercards, the same stepperengines.

I defined the speed in motortuning on 5000. So in my perception the MX speed the engines can run are 5000 mm a minute. Everything works well, untill i give the command return to zero. The engines are running so fast the system jams. Off course i can adjust the the acc/de-acc settings, but how do i adjust the max speed returning to home ?? In my softlimits i adjusted the speed to max 25%.

A second question, if i give the command "set steps per unit"  the a and X axis do not run simultaneously, in a normal millingjob they work 100% correct. What to do ??

Kind regards

Fred

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Mach Screens / Re: Change buttons in active work offset

« on: April 14, 2017, 11:37:16 AM »

Fantastic thanx, found it, and found out how to work it. This makes my life a bit easier

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Mach Screens / Change buttons in active work offset

« on: April 14, 2017, 07:14:01 AM »

Hi There,

I use the working offsets quite a lot. Fixture 1 (G54) and so on. I keep forgetting which fixture to use for different jobs. It would help me a lot if i could change the names in the button for example to Vacuumtable, centre, flipside mould etc. No problem if i have to change the tekst in photoshop or whatever, but i cannot find the location where these buttons are located.

Any help will be appreciated

Kind regards

Fred

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Third party software and hardware support forums. / Re: Who can help ? my X-axis only wants to move in 1 direction

« on: May 14, 2016, 05:29:43 AM »

I found the error. It was the direction wire that did not make good contact.

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Third party software and hardware support forums. / Re: Who can help ? my X-axis only wants to move in 1 direction

« on: May 10, 2016, 04:15:21 AM »

i swapped the wiring between USB card and Driver from X axis to Z axis. Now the Z axis only moves to one side only, and X moves normal.

Does this mean the USB control card has a malfunction?

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Third party software and hardware support forums. / Who can help ? my X-axis only wants to move in 1 direction

« on: May 09, 2016, 04:01:02 PM »

Hi there,

I just changed from a parallel situation to USB, Parallel is just too old and not stable enough for me.

I bought an XhC Mach3 USB control card (4 axis). I wired everything, checked and double checked. Y/Z works fine. The X-axis only wants to move in 1 direction when toggled. I tried about every function n Mach3, i just cannot invert the direction, and am not able to make it goi in both directions. I checked the wire from driver to the controlcard and "beeped"it. The cable is ok. All drivers have exactly the same dipswitches activ, same drivers, same steppermotors.

The last few hair i have go grey, can some-one help me ?

Thanx in advance

Fred

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G-Code, CAD, and CAM discussions / Amount of milled millimeters in Mach3 and prediction how long something will mil

« on: June 12, 2013, 05:19:56 AM »

Hi There,

I am using Mach 3 now for several weeks and getting the hang of it. Thanx to the help of a a dutch guy I've met here the configuration and usage of mach3 was a piece of cake with about 0 knowledge upfront. If somebody does some explaining the majority is logical (for the few percent i use mach3)

Now i have 2 questions i cannot fiend the answer for:

-1- Is there a screen/method to see how many millimeters have to be milled, or were milled. We invoice normally by the milled millimeter, so it makes sense knowing how much we've milled.
-2- is there a way of predicting the time to be consumed to mill a file ?? i know i can run the mill offline, but i don't mean that function.

Thanx in advance

Fred

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FAQs / Re: another newbee

« on: May 01, 2013, 05:21:23 AM »

Hi Rich,

Thanx, almost everything is running smoothly now. I bought a legal Mach3 CD from a local vendor. Sadly it is an older version in German (YAK) i don't mind the version. I think i utilise about 2% of all the functions in Mach3, so no problem for me. But can you tell me how to change the language toenglish ?? German language in software should be forbidden. Terrible.

I tried to copy the Mach1Lic.dat into the mach3 folder of my demoversion,. but that doesnn't work.

Kind regards

Fred