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General Mach Discussion / Re: Work in a different quadrant?

« on: September 01, 2016, 08:15:16 AM »

pics below - top of part and bottom of part

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Work in a different quadrant?

« on: September 01, 2016, 07:43:09 AM »

As the bumper sticker say on my car - don't follow me, I'm lost too!

I'm very much still newb myself, so much to learn

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach3 logic help

« on: September 01, 2016, 07:22:57 AM »

Have you tried running exact-stop instead of CV ??

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Work in a different quadrant?

« on: September 01, 2016, 07:21:32 AM »

Hmm, complex

Side two is first - it just has three counterbores, zero is top-left (Q4)
Flip horizontal - side one, zero now has to be bottom left (Q1)

X remains, Y is flipped from top to bottom.

This will only ever be a one-off and i don't normally do a fixture unless its the only way to go.

It will work just fine, its just the tool path display has to be dragged up from way down below the line

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Work in a different quadrant?

« on: September 01, 2016, 06:47:31 AM »

Hiya,

yes i usually go bottom left but that won't work when you have to work both sides of a part and the features need to align - the bottom left becomes top left when part is flipped over (flipped along the X axis)

I'm just trying to get a good hold on what is going to happen when i finally get to make the parts i need, been drawing and cam'ing it in Fusion360, then reading the code, figuring out just what its doing, luckily F360 writes nice code

But when i load into my Mach simulator (laptop, no motion) the part is below the cross-hairs which is correct, i can drag it up but do a regen and it disappears again

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General Mach Discussion / Work in a different quadrant?

« on: September 01, 2016, 04:43:45 AM »

All of my stuff up to now has been done in quadrant 1 with home at bottom left.

I have a part to make with work on both sides so the front will be in Q1 but the back will be in Q4 with home at top left.

Is there a way or setting to get the tool path display to show correct? At the moment the job is hanging off the bottom of the screen

(still learning here BTW )

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach3 logic help

« on: September 01, 2016, 04:11:01 AM »

I can fully understand your issues but maybe Mach3 was not the correct choice?

I don't know, i'm only guessing as i  only use it on plasma cutting - not very precise, engraving - machine only has 0.01mm and seems ok and a Bridgeport so not mould-making.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach3 logic help

« on: September 01, 2016, 03:56:24 AM »

Yep it's not perfect but still damn good;) You just have to know the limitations between software and hardware i think.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach3 logic help

« on: September 01, 2016, 02:10:46 AM »

I have noticed odd things happen when increasing feed rate in Mach, done via code its ok but increasing via feed rate override does odd things sometimes.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Bridgeport Knee Mill Conversion?

« on: August 28, 2016, 01:29:15 PM »

Yep, its a local place, does a damn fine job.