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General Mach Discussion / Re: Moving to a new PC

« on: October 08, 2016, 03:52:11 AM »

WOW! I thought that nice tidy method of programming died with DOS!

Its how all programs should be made in my view, MAC's used it up to a few years ago but now they spread stuff all over the place.

Nice.

Whether or not the uSB bus is fast enough for the job i don't know but its interesting

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Moving to a new PC

« on: October 08, 2016, 03:23:08 AM »

Impressive, never knew that could be done.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Bridgeport Knee Mill Conversion?

« on: October 07, 2016, 02:25:41 PM »

I've grasped enough to edit the post processor and change the G28 lines to G53 G0 Z0

I'll still air-cut the original file - it would be nice if it fails again, then try the new version and see if that passes or fails

It would at least point the finger at the G28 stuff.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Moving to a new PC

« on: October 07, 2016, 02:23:14 PM »

Does that PC already have Mach loaded on it?

If yes then that may explain why it ran from the stick - the dll libraries would be loaded already by the main install so the stick install would just use the exe file.

Just interested

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Bridgeport Knee Mill Conversion?

« on: October 07, 2016, 02:02:16 PM »

Yep, my mini-mill took hours of farting about with spindle pulley values to get reasonably good linear control - the CSMIO just nails it straight out of the box, its about +10-15rpm out at any speed but thats no bad thing really.

I might increase braking time a tad - 1s stop from 3000rpm is pretty hard and tends to slam my worn dogs out on the back-gear clutch.

Apart from that its all gone well so far, just need to rig up a bracket for the spindle encoder, wire up and see what happens then

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Bridgeport Knee Mill Conversion?

« on: October 07, 2016, 01:19:17 PM »

Yeah, i could get the post modified - this is Fusion360 and the posts are gibberish to me but the forum is great.

In my Aspire posts I use G53 G0 Z0.

Z0 or Z-2 will work, 2mm is not worth worrying about, but its odd that it only fails AFTER a tool change - something must get messed up internally i guess.

I cammed the job with one tool per file and it worked fine, at least it got the part made

Will be playing this weekend, just have the encoder to fit now, Mach is controlling the new VFD/motor nicely now.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Moving to a new PC

« on: October 07, 2016, 01:14:20 PM »

I never tried that, probably not recommended

I woud do a full and proper install on the new PC then copy over just the custom macros, screen-set etc

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Moving to a new PC

« on: October 07, 2016, 10:57:30 AM »

The xml and set files are in the main Mach folder, but do get a copy of the whole thing on a stick preferably

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Moving to a new PC

« on: October 07, 2016, 09:19:40 AM »

Yes, your .XML file, any custom or edited macros and in any case, take a copy of the whole mach3 folder before doing anything at all.

Also the .set file if you have edited the screen-set - added buttons etc.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Bridgeport Knee Mill Conversion?

« on: October 07, 2016, 09:17:53 AM »

Just been advised by a respected guy that v022 will not work as it has issues with tool-change routines that are not out-of-the-box seems v028 is better.

I'm holding off on downgrading until i have retested the same code that failed.

Slowly losing faith.........