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FAQs / Re: another newbee

« on: April 29, 2013, 12:23:48 PM »

Hi Rich,

A nice guy from the Netherlands with MACH3 knowlege was help me via Skype. Everything is working now 100% so i can go on.

Thanx an lots of fun here at this forum,

Fred

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FAQs / Re: another newbee

« on: April 27, 2013, 04:16:04 PM »

one pic is missing

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FAQs / Re: another newbee

« on: April 27, 2013, 04:14:56 PM »

Heya,

Almost everything is working ok now. Just that darned z-axes. i just can't get it right.

I  jog the Z-axes 10 mm over my material, being 3 mm thick. So in the end 13 mm over the bench. Define my work in Lazycam (a simpel dxf) you can look at the screens here.








The Z-axes goes down about 6 mm, follows the dxf coordinates, rises about 1-2 mm and does NOT come back in the original 0 point.

Where do i go wromg ??

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FAQs / Re: another newbee

« on: April 26, 2013, 07:14:34 AM »

Hi Rich (and other interested people) Yups the feedrate did the trick, at least part of it. The mill is running lots faster after i defined a feedrate in lazycam. I defined speeds like 450-600-900 and 1200, but it doesn't make any difference. Jogging still is faster, so the bench CAN run faster. I'm not at the max speed. I'm sure it's a setting somewhere i didn't find yet.

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FAQs / Re: another newbee

« on: April 26, 2013, 02:45:47 AM »

hi Rich,

thanks for the swift reply. to be honest i did not touch the feedrate so far, did not think of it. i'll give it a try today.

thanx

Fred

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FAQs / another newbee

« on: April 25, 2013, 03:44:10 PM »

Hi There, I'm Fred from the Netherlands and jumped just into the wondrous world of Mach3.

I downloaded the demoversion a few days ago, went through all the fantastic instructionvideo's on line (great for dyslectic people like me) and set up my 3 axes milling machine.
Before ran the mill under CNCprofi. it worked ok, but running under MS Dos it is extremely outdated.

My problem:

I'd setup the machine. and in motor tuning and setup i did like the video told me. played along with the XYZ values, steps per (100 for X) velocity (1320 for X)  and acceleration (515 for X). All axes are running ok in jogging modus at 100% speed. Sound ok and can't stop them by hand.

In the settingswindow (Alt6) i ran a axis callii bration and everything seems ok.

If i run a demo job, a G-coded job from Devwing, or a gcode coming from lazycam the speed is about 10% of the speed i have in jogging modeSpindle speed is set to 100%. Can anyone give me a clue where to look ? there are just too many windows for newbees

PS i know that 100 steps is very low, but that was the value coming from the settingswindow,

Thanx in Advance

Fred