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General Mach Discussion / Re: Correct orentation for X and Y

« on: January 07, 2010, 01:21:59 PM »

Just to muddy the waters, My mill has home as the back right corner 
No problem as I always move and then reset to the work coordinate zero.

My Router has the X-Y the same as indicated by others, this is basically because I consider the longest axis to be X.
Most screens are setup as landscape so it makes sense to have the machine set up in the same way, just all for visual ease of use. I have enough difficulty remembering thing as it is 

Dave, I suspect you have some setting wrong in mach, you can flip an axis on the axis settings page. I definitely couldn't live with this being wrong, I'd forget to mirror on an important expensive bit of material 30 seconds before all the suppliers shut for the weekend.

Steve

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General Mach Discussion / Re: low pulse frequency in drivertest

« on: January 04, 2010, 04:19:56 PM »

My driver test is similar, below 24000 and with spikes in the graph. P4 1.? ghz cerca 2001 with windows 2000 pro clean install and about 512mb ram
I'll check tomorrow but it runs my router fine at 2m/min rapids and is smooth etc.
Give it a try and see how it does.

Steve

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General Mach Discussion / Re: touchscreen monitor

« on: January 01, 2010, 04:21:51 PM »

where can I get a resistive overlay

Did you not bother *reading* the responses to your own thread?

??

I think he must have as he's now asking about resistive overlays mentioned by Hood.

I've seen overlays on ebay, have a search through them as some have quite a bit of info on the page.

Steve

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General Mach Discussion / Re: advanced threading plugin

« on: November 26, 2009, 04:04:08 PM »

I presume this is a lathe? have you got a spindle indexing disc and sensor connected up. Mach needs to know the spindle position/speed to keep the thread in the right place.
If it's a mill then you don't need a trigger or the advanced threading plugin (I think)

Steve

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General Mach Discussion / Re: The REMEMBER button

« on: November 16, 2009, 04:30:18 AM »

That's the one.
Now my router is setup I don't go into these unless I have a problem, so remembering were they are and what their called can be a bit challenging 

Steve

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General Mach Discussion / Re: The REMEMBER button

« on: November 13, 2009, 04:29:14 AM »

That's on the config page, keeps DRO on shutdown, or something like that.
Mine does it anyway so I can shut down and restart the next day and all teh values are in the dro's

Steve

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Auto Zero

« on: November 12, 2009, 10:48:07 AM »

Yes I'd seen that.
I was just joking about changing it to metric "should" be ok.

Steve

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Auto Zero

« on: November 12, 2009, 04:44:37 AM »

One way to find out! (I think it should) 

I could mount the touch plate on a spring then it would just give when the tool caries on.
I could call it Zebedy ;-)

Steve

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General Mach Discussion / Re: The REMEMBER button

« on: November 11, 2009, 07:06:27 AM »

I think he must be on about the one in the tool info box, remember, Return and auto zero.
Must admit I don't know what their for (remember & return) but I'm sure it's in the manual somewere.

Steve

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Auto Zero

« on: November 11, 2009, 06:26:16 AM »

Does this code work for sensible units (mm  ) and just change the -1.0 to -25 and the plate thickness in mm.

Steve