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Newfangled Solutions Mach3 Wizards / Re: PHOTOvCARVE problems!!

« on: December 20, 2014, 10:42:38 AM »

wow.... just....wow. The whole things is screwed. Jogs don't work properly and the X axis wont tune. I set everything back to the way I had it before all this and that didn't help.
So done with this for now. I need to step away from it.  Thanks for the help.  This has really been a bad investment from the beginning... Money pit, time pit.  So done with it.  To date I have spent more time working on it than it has actually produced, Almost spent twice on it that paid for it.  

Thanks for the help, how you have a great Christmas.

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Newfangled Solutions Mach3 Wizards / Re: PHOTOvCARVE problems!!

« on: December 20, 2014, 12:39:43 AM »

Im done for the night.  Now I can't get cut2D to cut the path I use for making my phone holder.  it's doing the same thing as the PVC.  This is insane.  Not happy.  heading to bed.

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Newfangled Solutions Mach3 Wizards / Re: PHOTOvCARVE problems!!

« on: December 20, 2014, 12:14:28 AM »

gonna try it now

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Newfangled Solutions Mach3 Wizards / Re: PHOTOvCARVE problems!!

« on: December 19, 2014, 11:39:59 PM »

my condolences. The boy is 4 also and likes to take unaccompanied walks down the country road. I have had to put an alarm on his door so we are alerted when he grabs his sister and wants to take a stroll in the middle of the night.

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Newfangled Solutions Mach3 Wizards / Re: PHOTOvCARVE problems!!

« on: December 19, 2014, 11:16:11 PM »

I tried it.  I ran it straight as you sent it.  had to estop it because it snet my bit so far into the work piece it almost found oil.
Anyhow I got the zeros set so it wouldnt crash into the stops and tried it again.  Several different image files.
maybe you can make a simple file and send it to me and I can see if it runs on my machine?  I can compare and see if I am doing something wrong here because its the same thing all the time.  Soon as GO is pressed the bit dips down into the material and carves a trench to the start point ruining the face of the wood and then makes a nice boarder with no image. 

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Newfangled Solutions Mach3 Wizards / Re: PHOTOvCARVE problems!!

« on: December 19, 2014, 10:54:08 PM »

Thanks, Ill load this right up.
Sorry for the delay I had to handle the horrible dramas of a 4yo little grand daughter, they have so many things to deal with at that age right?
Any how let me try this new xml

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Newfangled Solutions Mach3 Wizards / Re: PHOTOvCARVE problems!!

« on: December 19, 2014, 09:02:24 PM »

here is the file
None of the PC's I make have a parallel port so I am using an older unit that is slower.  I will be getting a network version of my g540 and putting the other one on my lathe but for now I am using this one.  I have rebooted and cussed and called it dirty names and it still is the same old story.

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Newfangled Solutions Mach3 Wizards / Re: PHOTOvCARVE problems!!

« on: December 19, 2014, 07:00:06 PM »

Im done.  No matter what I try I get the same results.  Setting it as described by the tutorials and other people it's the same result.  The tool dips down in the the wood and then cuts a groove to the start point, begins cutting edges but not cutting the actual image.  I really feel I have wasted money on this program now and don't see anything getting better.  The worst part is that it drops the tool down from zero into the wood on the way to the start point ruining any chance of making an image and then wont carve the image.
Here is the pvc file.

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Newfangled Solutions Mach3 Wizards / Re: PHOTOvCARVE problems!!

« on: December 19, 2014, 05:06:55 PM »

Guess I will have to find a different program to either replace mach3 or the photovcarve.  No one can figure out whats going on.

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Newfangled Solutions Mach3 Wizards / Re: PHOTOvCARVE problems!!

« on: December 19, 2014, 05:10:19 AM »

Yes, I always make sure I am always in inches.  Every time.  
And I did post the gcode and I posted the ".pvc" file.
the PVC file wont load since it isnt in the "allowed" list for this forum.