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Mach4 General Discussion / Egg shaped holes

« on: June 04, 2016, 12:12:28 AM »

I'm getting egg-shaped holes when pocket milling with Mach 4. The holes are 3 mil out of round. Using Mach 3 I got only 1 mil out of round. The holes in Mach 4 are also undersized about 10 mil (average). Mach 3 always came out right on size.

Such a weird problem. Is anyone else seeing this? Could it be the backlash parameter is not being implemented correctly in Mach 4? I'm using the same backlash value on both programs.

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Mach4 Plugins / Shuttle Pro question

« on: June 03, 2016, 08:44:42 PM »

Gents,

Anyone know how to "soften" the transition between the feed rates using the Shuttle Pro? Mine transitions with a hard thump which doesn't sound good for the ball screw. I'm almost positive the machine enclosure itself acts like a drum head and amplifies the sound I'm hearing. But it's a terrible sound that makes me flinch every time I hear it!

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Shuttle Pro plugin - When?

« on: May 27, 2016, 10:31:08 PM »

My Shuttle Pro has worked fine also...since a long time ago. Both inner and outer wheels.

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General Mach Discussion / Making copies - reality capture

« on: October 12, 2015, 07:00:14 PM »

This may be old news to some, but AutoDesk has a free service called ReCap360 where you upload pictures and it generates a 3D model. I will toy with this in the future to see how it works, but it looks very good. The detail of the 3D model produced at 1:50 in the video below is remarkable. You can import the 3D model in your CAM software to generate code to make copies.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4jF6_ddlpY

A camera attached to your 3D mill would be great to get the pictures.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: MACH4 and ESS with homing issues

« on: October 01, 2015, 01:00:08 PM »

That sounds like a restart of Mach4 is needed. If that doesn't fix it, then you have some of the settings wrong in Mach4 or ESS plugin.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 going into non-responsive state.

« on: September 30, 2015, 05:40:58 PM »

I have to ask...Are you running a licensed version? This happened to me when running demo.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: New PlugIn just about done..

« on: August 21, 2014, 09:26:57 PM »

OK THANKS A LOT

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General Mach Discussion / Re: New PlugIn just about done..

« on: August 21, 2014, 06:14:53 PM »

I will be getting Mach4 very soon. Does the plugin software run on Mach4? If not, when can this be expected?

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Possible Mach3 G-code interpreter error

« on: August 21, 2014, 02:31:41 PM »

It's not productive to fix Mach3 since it has limited lifetime anyway now that Mach4 is here. Mach4 supports newer Windows versions, Mac, and Linux. I took the plunge!

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Possible Mach3 G-code interpreter error

« on: August 21, 2014, 01:17:39 PM »

Not always