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General Mach Discussion / Vacuum on Flooding

« on: August 25, 2007, 12:03:48 PM »

Is it possible to have like a SSR Relay hooked up to some pin (like Flood) and have it periodicaly sucking up the dirt automaticaly.
I mean I don't want to reinvent the wheel. But can somebody head me the right direction. Just like the Spindle enable/disable .
And you probably have to insert the gcode manualy, right ?

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General Mach Discussion / Cut Circle in metric

« on: August 25, 2007, 12:00:34 PM »

HI ,

I'm not sure but I believe the cut circle wizard is not metric. Can somebody verifiy that ?
I use MACH 3

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General Mach Discussion / How to reduce overall workspeed

« on: July 08, 2007, 06:11:43 PM »

HI, I was gonna ask if it was possible to work some defined percentage slower than the machine would operate . But not line by line. Just reduced speed?

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General Mach Discussion / Help File ?

« on: July 06, 2007, 05:54:14 PM »

I s there a help file or some sort of documentation for MACH 3 cause the wizard don't know much. And I'll be waiting to answer my questions for days. I could't find anything to download.

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General Mach Discussion / Homing after work has completed

« on: July 05, 2007, 07:27:36 PM »

probably another stupid question. After my work is done and I want to go with all Axis to the Machine Coordinates Zero (Home) how do I do that? Without disabling soft limits or jogging ?

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General Mach Discussion / Full Step to Microstepping

« on: July 05, 2007, 02:03:24 PM »

This is maybe a stupid question : I was working today with my newly built CNC in Full step . Everything is fine. I was engraving something to test with "WRITE" and  it was OK but not as perfect. Then  was gonna swich to microstepping because I wasn't quiet happy with the resolution. But now of course do I have to set things up again. Fist of all .What do I have to do?. Motor tuning and  double all the values in there?. There must be a easier way that I completely overlooked.

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General Mach Discussion / Spindle Control

« on: July 03, 2007, 01:31:41 PM »

I have a homebrew Interface where I have an SSR hooked up to control my spindle. In config/ports & pins  I've setup the spindle on pin 1 and direction on 2 ? which I changed to 1 back. I have active LOw enabled and in general Config I have the Spindel disabled unchecked . But I don't have pin 1 high when I start my work. Why is that ? Did I forgett something?

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General Mach Discussion / Shapes / Run from here ???

« on: July 02, 2007, 05:41:57 PM »

OK here is my next question. When I load the "Shapes " demonstration and want to cut like he D.SUB 25pin further down on Shape 3 ..I go down there and click Run from here. But it ultimately jumps from the top and does only the first shape. Also how do  I view the shape it's only showing the first one. I do regenerate Toolpath but nothing.

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General Mach Discussion / Homing Z-Axis during G-Code process

« on: July 02, 2007, 05:33:05 AM »

Hi I am New to the group and this is my first question. I have a converted Proxxon MF70 . All homing and Soft Limits are properly set up. Everything works my question is more this: When I am trying to Home in the middle of the G-Code processing the Z-Axis won't pull up    to 0 first leading to scratch the piece I was working on. Is there somewhere a way to tell it that when "Homing" is pressed the fist thing would be Zeroing the Z-Axis ?