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General Mach Discussion / Re: Finding center of part using a axis

« on: March 31, 2015, 07:43:17 PM »

On page 10-20 of the mach3 manual,  it states "it will be an error if any rotational axis is commanded to move"  So is that what I would use with my probe? I will be insulating my rotary table so it can use the "edge finder" feature of mach3. Am i just reading it wrong? If so this answers my question. I have found several sample codes that I can copy and save just change the axis. Thanks again for all the replies. I apologize i am new to all of this. Can't wait to get all the stuff here so I can hook it up!!! 

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Finding center of part using a axis

« on: March 31, 2015, 01:25:30 PM »

Yes. I am cutting all 6 sleeves in tram one at a time then have to angle the mill head 50* to recut the ports and need to find the center of the port.Been trying to do research and G31 will not work with the rotating axis. Still trying to get motors set up on conversion. Been hand cutting them with rotary table and it sucks. Thanks for the replies.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Finding center of part using a axis

« on: March 30, 2015, 06:54:15 AM »

Is there a code I can enter that will cause it to find the edges of the axis that I need? I don't care to manually do it. Again sorry I am new to this.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Finding center of part using a axis

« on: March 30, 2015, 06:49:03 AM »

I am cutting 2 stroke cylinder sleeves. I have to cut 6 sleeves (cylinders) with the mill in tram and then angle the milling head 50 degrees to cut the bevels on some of the ports cut into the cylinder and need a way to find the edges of the ports again. So I can write a program to cut them. I looked in wizards and I can only see that it will do X,Y,Z. Sorry I a new and just getting into CNC. Is there another screen set that may do that? Thanks.

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General Mach Discussion / Finding center of part using a axis

« on: March 30, 2015, 01:34:48 AM »

I am trying to find out how I would be able to find the center of a square in a round part on the rotary table while staying at Y0.0. I am cutting a cylinder and have square holes in it that I am needing to cut angles on them but need to know where the center is of the tables rotation for the square. Thanks for the replies. Hope this hasn't been asked a hundred times. Done a search but did not find answer.