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General Mach Discussion / Re: Who is able and willing to swap a button on Mach3turn for me?

« on: November 18, 2007, 06:52:23 AM »

Cannot find  Screen4,  all i can find is:

Manual screen, Auto screen, Auto screen-cycle, Tool Table screen, Diags Screen, and the Tab-Popup Jog screen.

Ágain, You have made my (cnc) life, so much easier..

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Who is able and willing to swap a button on Mach3turn for me?

« on: November 18, 2007, 06:26:09 AM »

Hi Hood,

Thank You ; that is just what i wanted , i recently had an expencive collision because of a jog push button error....

 Again,cannot thank you enough !!!!

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General Mach Discussion / Who is able and willing to swap a button on Mach3turn for me?

« on: November 18, 2007, 04:49:10 AM »

Hi All,

Have found a good setup for my Lathe in combination with programming  via my Cadcam;  but unfortunately in the Mach3-Turn Jog-screen, the  Xjog buttons are not in the right place for me.

In critical situations i find it extremely hard to find the right button, because my fisical direction is is just opposit of the button location on the Jog-screen.

Because i am a absolute Nono in Pc-programming my Question:

Is there someone able and willing to change the Mach3-Turn  Jog-screen for me ?

Would be really fantastic if somebody could  build  a screen for me where he puts the  JogX++ on top. and the  JogX--in bottom location.

Big Thanks

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Problem setting up an xy table onto a Lathe

« on: September 16, 2007, 12:14:09 PM »

""""I will tell you,  grooves will have tapered sides, threads will be at the wrong angle and parting off and drilling/reaming will be a tool smashing extravaganza.

You can program out tapers in faces and in diameters but coordinate rotation can not fix this. Lathes must move parallel and square to the spindle or you are in big trouble.""""



Graham, we are taking a few hundredths of a Millimeter in Diameter over a length of 300 Millimeter here.......( sorry not so familiar with Inches)

And Yes, the accuracy of re-fitting the unit, is an other concern.

Still i wonder, how you compensate for the alignement-imperfection of your own lathe ?

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Problem setting up an xy table onto a Lathe

« on: September 16, 2007, 06:06:02 AM »

Here You go Graham your pictures,

By the way; how do you guys compensate for the alignement-imperfection of your own lathes?

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Problem setting up an xy table onto a Lathe

« on: September 16, 2007, 05:54:09 AM »

 Ron, i would like to set the table up as XZ for a lathe .

So i am looking for an overall offset (angle) compensation, in Mach3turn mode.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Problem setting up an xy table onto a Lathe

« on: September 15, 2007, 11:20:08 AM »

Thanks for your reply Hood, but i don't think the use of a wizard is the answer.

One option for me, is to adjust my axis in my cadcam , but i dont like the idea of  my gcodesprograms beeing "crooked",
and therefore i am looking for an (Onetime) compensation in the basic configurationsettings of mach3turn.

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General Mach Discussion / Problem setting up an xy table onto a Lathe

« on: September 14, 2007, 03:58:54 PM »

Hi All,

Some years ago In The Netherlands there was a company named Style that sold CNC-controlled  X-Y tables that could be retrofitted
onto a conventionally Lathe, and came with its own software.

The company stopped selling these units.
I still own one of these and would like to use it with Mach3turn. 


I have fitted one onto my Lathe and found my axis being not exactly parralel to the centreline of the rotary axis.

As an exact mechanically setup of the table is very difficult to do my Question is ;

Is there a way Mach3turn can compensate for this ?

Regards From The Netherlands