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Messages - Jimster

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Right you are hood, (again!!!!) Cslabs did get back to me last night. I should have been more patient.

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Tangent Corner / Re: Thread Milling cutters
« on: January 17, 2014, 07:06:38 AM »
What's the difference between and internal and external insert?

Could I use and internal insert to cut an external thread?

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Tangent Corner / Re: Thread Milling cutters
« on: January 16, 2014, 10:21:26 AM »
I want me make a cam cover for my engine, I need to make a thread for the oil filler cap, about 50mm diameter, so this will be perfect

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Tangent Corner / Re: Thread Milling cutters
« on: January 16, 2014, 03:53:30 AM »
Thanks for the extra info, that's good to know. So I only need the VFD and spindle encoder for using regular taps?

I assume I could cut internal and external threads with the tool posted by Graham above?

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Sadly CSLabs didn't come back with any information after the questions I initially asked them, very disappointing after the price I paid for their controller.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: GCode problem
« on: January 15, 2014, 05:07:49 PM »
Wooohoo!!! legend!!! Thanks again so much Hood, that looks much different now

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General Mach Discussion / Re: GCode problem
« on: January 15, 2014, 04:41:03 PM »
Here is a screenshot of what I thought I was creating gcode for, to keep things simple I was just trying to cut the two centres from the circles (shown in yellow). Does this look like more of a post processor problem to you??

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General Mach Discussion / Re: GCode problem
« on: January 15, 2014, 04:39:28 PM »
Yes I have homed the mill,  at the top of screen it says G21 so I guess that's ok.

I have attached a screen shot, looking at the table display window on the right, it looks like it's creating a circle within a circle, what I was expecting was two circles next to each other.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: GCode problem
« on: January 15, 2014, 04:00:27 PM »
just a guess at the moment, but my mach3 machine is setup in mm, and the drawing in solidworks was in mm, but I'm guessing solidcam created the gcode in inches, even though its set to metric in the options?

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General Mach Discussion / GCode problem
« on: January 15, 2014, 03:56:31 PM »
I tried running the program and ignored the soft limit (with the bed wound down to cut fresh air) and the path it was taking was massive, much greater than the 120mm expected. I guess this is a solidcam issue?

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