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Show"N"Tell ( Your Machines) / Re: Dixie Duke - A machine in the making.

« on: March 29, 2011, 08:34:23 AM »

Not much to update as of yet, I'm afraid. The winter months sure do slow everything down. Right now everything is disassembled, and awaiting a good warm couple days that will allow me to paint it.

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Show"N"Tell ( Your Machines) / Re: The Laser Project.

« on: March 28, 2011, 04:00:52 PM »

Have you a design made up for the clock arms? You realize you gotta make some fancy dancy frame for it, too, don't you?

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Newbie

« on: March 28, 2011, 01:16:28 AM »

Glad to have you among us, John. If you already have a TM-1, your not really starting out from scratch, for sure. We're always here to give friendly advise/help to friendly people!

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Problem with Error Involving Arcs

« on: March 24, 2011, 12:46:03 AM »

Just add G90.1 for Abs, or G91.1 for inc.   Since you've already got it defaulted to abs in the config page, you likely just need to add G91.1 to the code to make it switch to inc. See the code I posted earlier for an example.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Problem with Error Involving Arcs

« on: March 23, 2011, 08:17:42 PM »

I think your right, Gerry. The K and Q values are not normally needed. The key is finding out what setting makes use of the I and J instead. Would be allot easier to troubleshoot it "hands on". Also, you need to make sure that you set the incremental/absolute mode in Machs "general logic config" within your g-code, instead of the check boxes. In the PP generators 'circle' tab, I would check the 'limit arcs to angle' check box, just to be on the safe side and avoid any potential unrelated errors that you don't need right now. When you get everything sorted and working right, you can uncheck it and see how it jives.  Here is how a helix format could look, to give you at least some reference to go by.....

%
O0000
G20
G0 G17 G40 G49 G80 G90 G91.1
T1 M6
G0 G90 G54 X-.2492 Y.301 S1000 M3
G43 H1 Z1.25
Z1.2
G1 Z1.1 F500
G2 Z.9354 I.3992 J-.301
Z.7707 I.3992 J-.301
Z.6061 I.3992 J-.301
Z.4414 I.3992 J-.301
Z.2768 I.3992 J-.301
Z.1121 I.3992 J-.301
X.0443 Y-.4887 Z0. I.3992 J-.301
M30
%



 Also, when your posting a reply, there is an 'additional options' link south-west of the text input box, that will allow you to post your pics without the need to upload them to a separate server, and that mess. Use it if you like, it's much more convenient.

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Show"N"Tell ( Your Machines) / Re: The Laser Project.

« on: March 23, 2011, 03:55:48 PM »

Wow, that's pretty impressive, Tweakie. I like it.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Problem with Error Involving Arcs

« on: March 23, 2011, 01:11:58 AM »

Please post your G-code using the "Additional Options" when posting a reply.

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Show"N"Tell ( What you have made with your CNC machine.) / Re: Cylinder Heads

« on: March 21, 2011, 12:08:08 AM »

Looks real nice Steve. Every time I check my mail and there's a "Topic Reply" by Stevehuck, it feels like Christmas.  I really enjoy watching your progress. Thanks again for sharing with us.

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Third party software and hardware support forums. / Re: master cam X4

« on: March 16, 2011, 07:17:50 PM »

generic fanuc

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General Mach Discussion / Re: semi circle problems

« on: March 06, 2011, 08:38:02 PM »

Works fine for me. You've probably got the setting in your configuration set wrong for "I-J" mode. It's best to use G-code to set this value, anyhow. Insert a g91.1 in your code and see if that fixes it, or change the value in "config> general config".