Messages

51

Non English Forums / Dúvidas

« on: September 03, 2014, 07:01:26 AM »

Vou tentar responder suas dúvidas em portugues, então se vcs tiverem dúvidas postem que eu reponderei.

52

Mach SDK plugin questions and answers. / Re: Impact engraving plugin

« on: September 02, 2014, 06:23:35 AM »

Hi Tweakie,
It is a pity!
With USB you can use a much powerful cpu.
This one is installed in a Dell I7,with 6 gb mem and a 2 gb video board.
And it is a Dell notebook you can take it everywhere.
I have another Dell note a 5500 with core2duo and will give a try.
Thanks a lot for your time !

53

Mach SDK plugin questions and answers. / Re: Impact engraving plugin

« on: September 01, 2014, 03:36:12 PM »

Here the error,
and the board!
It´s an Aqua modified to portuguese 9you can see that it has the engraving still not translated)

54

Mach SDK plugin questions and answers. / Re: Impact engraving plugin

« on: September 01, 2014, 03:29:22 PM »

Here the trigger:

55

Mach SDK plugin questions and answers. / Re: Impact engraving plugin

« on: September 01, 2014, 03:24:28 PM »

thanks tweaki!
But now I have a new problem!
I made a trigger based on a irf 640 to make the magnet work, I am still using my door car magnet that is 12 vcc.
All goes well in my test machine,that has a 25 pin interface.o a test on my big machine,that is
Well,all working,time to put it to my 'big' machine, that has a interface that is usb,
I seted the digital trigger to output 7 ,before running the plugin I tested the circuit as 'mist' toggle, it was ok.
But when I put to digital trigger and run the impact plugin, a message appeared that the plugin can run only in 'printer mode'......
All functions on USB work well on my mach, that is updated and licensed, I think it is a compile problem on the plugin.
Any ideas how to solve this?

56

Mach SDK plugin questions and answers. / Re: Impact engraving plugin

« on: August 30, 2014, 10:22:19 AM »

I see, so the best is to make the scheme shown in the previous pages, one other question: when i do the process ,Mach doesnt show the drawing being made, is that correct or am i missing something?
Is there any other plugin or soft (best free)that could generate the g-code, so that it would be visible om mach?( my mach is licenced).
I translated the plugin to my language, but could not translate the menu that appears on Mach menu,is there a way to do it?
Yes , I know it is a lot of questions,but i am  52, and I want to make a little money on something I can do at home and can do outside.
I would even buy a professional one, but the price for transport and taxes would triplicate the price.
How can I get one of those heads that you and Andrea uses,that would be easier to transport.
Of course I would pay the part and the transport.
Please be patient, englishis not my language!
One last question again...I use Leafboy board to comunicate from my laptop to the machine.
my machine has 3 servo drivers and three servos.
I put one stepper driver to emulate the trigger , and put the trigger output to output 10 , conected the output 10 to the stepper driver , that is powered by an opto coupling.
So that now I use Z axis to aproximate the tol to the stone,and when the probe reaches the stone i know that the point of the tool is enough near the stone to start to engrave, in the other side of the probe I put a sphere screw that follows the surface so that I could switch the Z axis to THC , i guess that could allow me to engrave on a non flat surface..
What do you think about it?
Is that the correct or even good point to follow?


Again thanks for your answers and time!

57

Mach SDK plugin questions and answers. / Re: Impact engraving plugin

« on: August 30, 2014, 08:26:18 AM »

Thanks twealie,one of the things that I discovered is that you can use an unexpensive solid state relay to power up the solenoid, that in this case was 220 ac,like this one-https://www.futurlec.com/Pictures/Solid_State_Relay_300.jpg.
Here it cost about 8 dollars,but can output 25 amps ,and the 5 vcc can make it work, but I could not see the hz limit of it's on/off .
A pneumatic solenoid water cooled (I put resin around it and mount the axis encapsulated) coud bend a more strong spring.
Soon posting photos.
anyway I'd like to give a try on Andrea coil-I have a crazy Idea on etching tombstones on it's site,I would go with a generator and a small machine that could be placed directly on the granite or mable.

58

Mach SDK plugin questions and answers. / Re: Impact engraving plugin

« on: August 29, 2014, 08:23:20 PM »

Hello all!
first thanks to Andrea and Tweakie, not forgetting all that helped one way or other.
Maybe it's a dumb question, but will a stepper motor fully conected to a driver made with a lever system conected could achieve higher pulses so that it could short work time?
Any suggestion on how could that be achieved?
(sorry for my english)
By the way I used a professional solenoid from a pneumatic valve and worked quite well.

59

Mach Screens / Translations.

« on: August 06, 2014, 09:10:28 PM »

I have been working in an extense translation of Mach3,
My goal is a portuguese version of headers and even the screen set to be translated.
The one that is at hand referers to an old version,so when you apply the translation some of the features ,as ,for example, in 2010 screen , don´t go so well.
I,ve translated the great majority of the program, but one is particularly difficult for me (maybe it is even impossible , if is located on encrypted files that shouldn't be messed with!)
I would like someone to help me and give me directions.
Most of the image files and png I made again, but the difficult  is when I leave (close) the program, I could not translate thos two warnings,
"Are you sure?-end session " and "Save fixtures? "
Maybe this is not the right place to put this post,please if necessary place it where it is right.