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General Mach Discussion / Re: Super Simple Gcode translation (I hope)

« on: December 02, 2014, 03:09:13 PM »

hi Gerry,

Why did you add the "F30" and "F102" at the end of lines?

Also, what does the "%" sign do?

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Is there a Quick Reference Guide to Mach3 gcode ??

« on: December 02, 2014, 12:11:10 PM »

nice. thanks.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Super Simple Gcode translation (I hope)

« on: December 02, 2014, 11:52:49 AM »

Excellent. Thanks. I greatly appreciate you help.

I have thousands of lines to translate. The only idea I have so far is to import it into Excel and try to figure out how to break up and rearrange columns etc. (Though not sure how exactly.)

Do you have any idea where I could find software or a macro or something that could help make changes to thousands of linear interpolation lines?

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General Mach Discussion / Is there a Quick Reference Guide to Mach3 gcode ??

« on: December 02, 2014, 11:12:35 AM »

Shopbot cnc machine gcode is easy to find on the following sheet. Any idea where I might find such a simple list of Mach3 gcode? 


http://www.shopbottools.com/files/SBDocs/SBG00109090803CommandQuickRefLaminate.pdf

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General Mach Discussion / Super Simple Gcode translation (I hope)

« on: December 02, 2014, 11:10:17 AM »

hi here is some sample simple Shopbot cnc code. I want to cut this with my Mach3 cnc. Can someone please tell me how this code would be written in Mach3 gcode?   

MS,1.7,0.5
JZ,0.787402
J2,0.000000,0.000000
J3,1.462340,-5.889563,0.236220
M3,1.462340,-5.889563,-0.137086
M3,1.275624,-6.612135,-0.136735
M3,1.271747,-6.642036,-0.132859
M3,1.560218,-5.506177,-0.136568
M3,1.462340,-5.889563,-0.137086
J3,1.462340,-5.889563,0.236220
JZ,0.787402
END

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General Mach Discussion / How to set spindle speed..?

« on: November 14, 2014, 11:50:42 PM »

I'm sure this is an all-time dumb question, but how do I change the spindle speed from within Mach3?     

I have this XHC-MK4 motion control card:

http://www.automationtechnologiesinc.com/products-page/breakout-boards/cnc-mach3-usb-card-xhc-mk6-4-axis-motion-control-card-usb2-0-interface-wshell

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General Mach Discussion / Re: which 2 wires to hook board to Variable Frequency Drive

« on: November 11, 2014, 11:12:39 PM »

THANK YOU!! I did it! It works!

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General Mach Discussion / Up is Down!! Z axis is moving in the Wrong direction.

« on: November 11, 2014, 09:11:45 PM »

hi,

My Z axis is moving in the Wrong direction! (by which I mean up=down & down=up) Any idea how to fix it? Is it switching wires? Wonder which ones. And do you think I can hurt anything by switching the wrong ones?

Here's the machine's Motion Control Card:



 

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General Mach Discussion / Re: which 2 wires to hook board to Variable Frequency Drive

« on: November 11, 2014, 09:00:04 PM »

Excellent!! Thanks for the tip. I'll try this.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: which 2 wires to hook board to Variable Frequency Drive

« on: November 11, 2014, 06:03:10 PM »

Thank you so much.

Here are pics of both the termiinal blocks on the VFD and the terminal blocks on the control board. A lot more info on the control board is on the vendor's page:
http://www.automationtechnologiesinc.com/products-page/breakout-boards/cnc-mach3-usb-card-xhc-mk6-4-axis-motion-control-card-usb2-0-interface-wshell



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