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General Mach Discussion / Re: newbie - How to move to and entered value?

« on: October 20, 2015, 09:40:53 PM »

No, you can just type the tool radius into the DRO. Whether it's positive or negative depends on which side you're on, but I guess it would typically be negative.

Another option is to use the 2010 probing wizard. You can use another plate to probe against the edge, similar to auto zeroing the Z axis.

Sorry can you explain it a bit more...type it into which DRO? typing into the coordinates DRO doesnt move it.

What i've done so far is move the tool against the side of the part, zero it and then g0 x0.125 for example...same for y

is there another way of doing it??

p.s. i wish there was tooltips when i mouse over the icon buttons...i never remember what they all are and have open up the pdf to find out again..

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General Mach Discussion / Re: newbie - How to move to and entered value?

« on: October 19, 2015, 09:43:44 PM »

almost ready to cut with my machine and had one more question about this...

Mainly for zeroing...i have the 2010 screenset and will use the autozero to top of part...but my next question is I want to zero to a corner of my stock. I could just eyeball it pretty close but lets say i need it to be accurate....

So do i just move my tool over to an edge so it just touches against the side of the stock and then subtract the radius of the tool and type that in for my x and y using G0 ??

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Mach Screens / Re: 2010 screen set

« on: September 29, 2015, 08:15:46 AM »

Thanks...yes that was the issue...was set to +0.1.

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Mach Screens / Re: 2010 screen set

« on: September 28, 2015, 10:53:42 PM »

Hi, I have an issue with leaving use safe z checked.

Once a refall home and then hit park or toolchange my z always wants to go up until it eventually triggers my Z limit switch. If I uncheck use safe z and try park or toolchange it moves to it, no issue. (my park and toolchange are set to the same coordinates(x +4.5 y +14 z -0.5) The top my Z is 0 and bottom is -4.5.

So not sure if I have a setting wrong somewhere? what is safe z doing? are there settings for it?

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General Mach Discussion / Re: newbie - How to move to and entered value?

« on: May 31, 2015, 11:08:34 AM »

Thanks

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General Mach Discussion / newbie - How to move to and entered value?

« on: May 31, 2015, 08:56:32 AM »

Hi,

I am just getting into mach and was wondering is there a way to have your machine go to an entered value?

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General Mach Discussion / Re: newbie - limit switches

« on: May 27, 2015, 11:57:36 AM »

okay..thx...one step at  time. I'm sure more will become clear later

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General Mach Discussion / Re: newbie - limit switches

« on: May 27, 2015, 11:49:30 AM »

got it...hitting limits is bad

so when you hit a limit mach gets rid of your zero you set?? why would it do that?
How would you restart your cut if you hit a limit??

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General Mach Discussion / Re: newbie - limit switches

« on: May 27, 2015, 09:59:06 AM »

okay..right. I've done that.

Just confused reading/watching all of the home and limit stuff. As it mentioned when homing it hits a switch and then backs off, so i wasn't sure if this was expected behavior for limits as well.

Switches are all set up now, will have to try homing next.

thx

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General Mach Discussion / Re: newbie - limit switches

« on: May 27, 2015, 09:41:15 AM »

settings were wrong...they were already set active low...unchecked now.

So i check all of the axis ++ and -- limits as well as home.

When I hit a limit switch and trigger and Estop it does not back off of the switch...should it??