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General Mach Discussion / Re: THC-300

« on: July 25, 2008, 11:01:33 AM »

Check your CT connections and polarity or arc good signal from Plasma unit.
Also check J6-1, J6-2.
Hope this helps.

Regards

KTM

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Thc 300 Macro not working

« on: July 21, 2008, 12:47:21 PM »

I have not tried it, but the way I understand it is that G31 uses the probe input to set the tool offset.
Set up your home input as the probe input and theoretically it should work.

Regards

KTM

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General Mach Discussion / Re: file logging, job timming, costing

« on: July 21, 2008, 11:58:36 AM »

Thanks Scott

Yes, KTM  like the motorcycle.
Thanks for the info. I will try it on the weekend - I am still learning the VB script syntax - so it will take me some time

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General Mach Discussion / Re: file logging, job timming, costing

« on: July 20, 2008, 05:31:27 AM »

Hi Scott

Will it be possible to automatically name the file with the time and date, thereby creating individual files for each job?
eg: CostEstimate0207081126.txt.  Where do I write the path name? eg: c:\mach3\Time logging.

Regards
KTM

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Having difficulty with torch heigth set-up

« on: July 16, 2008, 02:08:26 AM »

Home the Z axis
Go to motor config > homing/limits
Set up the G28 home location (add .2"?)

That should work!

Regards

KTM

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Having difficulty with torch heigth set-up

« on: July 15, 2008, 01:44:14 AM »

Are you using plasma torch arc voltage, flame cut height sensing or z axis co-ordinates?

Post your G-code and I'll have a look.

Regards

KTM

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Standard shapes for flame/plasma cutting

« on: July 06, 2008, 06:12:34 AM »

Hi Jim

1)No
2)Yes
3)The nesting can be done with the nesting wizard
4)The cuts will only be vertical. The machines are 3 axis with THC on the Z axis.
 Mach only controls X & Y and switches the THC on auto/manual
Attached is a sample of the code

Regards

KTM

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General Mach Discussion / Standard shapes for flame/plasma cutting

« on: July 05, 2008, 04:04:07 AM »

Does any one have a standard shapes wizard that could do the shapes in the attached file.
I am willing to pay for it.

Regards

KTM

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Still unable to get motors to turn under mach 3 after 1.5 weeks

« on: December 23, 2007, 04:03:54 AM »

Hi Clive

Congratulations
I am happy that your machine is sorted. I missed that one in your XML. -Slap forehead - In motor tuning  the step pulse and direction pulse time were set to zero.

The answer is always simple when you know what it is.

KTM

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General Mach Discussion / Re: New to CNC cant get motors running

« on: December 15, 2007, 11:19:43 AM »

Regarding the square waves - What is the amplitude and frequency - are they only active when you run the g-code.
you can also run the motors from the manual screen - press "tab" on your keyboard.
Try adjusting your feedrate - maybe it is far too slow(unlikely)

KTM