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General Mach Discussion / Re: Height Following

« on: June 16, 2008, 01:40:52 PM »

There are some high accuracy ultrasonic sensors if that 2mm repetitablility affects your process.
Regards
Fernando

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Manual control of CNC router after Mach3 code is finished?

« on: June 04, 2008, 06:52:00 PM »

Hello,
Why not just add the moves at the end of your program?

A simple
G00 Z5
G00 x10 y10 (or wherever you need to move the router bit to)

Add these moves just before the M30 at the end of your program

Another way, hit the TAB key on your keyboard, the virtual jog pendant will appear.

Hope that helps
Fernando

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VB and the development of wizards / Re: Hypertherm THC and HPR260 with automatic console.

« on: June 03, 2008, 04:37:50 PM »

Hey Scott,
Thanks for the reply,
I actually deleated this post because on firther talking to Jim from Hypertherm, he said that their engineers would not help write a plugin, but they will just provide the information needed to implement it. Lets just say that they will just say what the plugin needs to be able to do.

im gonna have to read a lot to be able to get this going.

I'll dig into what its needed.
Thanks
Fernando

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VB and the development of wizards / Re: Hypertherm THC and HPR260 with automatic console.

« on: May 28, 2008, 12:19:20 PM »

hello,
Well I just posted on the plasmacutting yahoo group, and talked to Jim Colt, extremely knowledgeable and very willing to help guy.

I was asking if he knew if the automatic gas console can be used with mach3, and he said that the comunications to the console are Serial.

I guess a plugin could be written to make it work, along with their THC that is not stand alone.

HE said that the engineers would be happy to work with Mach3 and its developers to get this to work.

How about it brian? what should i tell him? do you know him already?

Best Regards
Fernando

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Hypertherm THC and HPR260 with automatic console.

« on: May 19, 2008, 06:57:02 PM »

Yes, I was made aware about the high frequency interference, i was considering maybe some kind of enclosure that wouldnt be affected by the highfrequency, (faraday cage maybe)

We have run Mach3 on our house built cnc router, not too many problems regarding stability, i might add.

Would you think that mach3 does not have smooth enough interpolation to be able to get the best out of an HPR260?

Would you say there is a seamless integration between the command THC by hypertherm and Mach3?

Would you say that a hypertherm THC would outperform the low cost alternatives (campbell's and jim cullins) and yours?

On a mechanical issue, what sort of accelerations would be good for a good quality cnc plasma, I was told by my hypertherm distributor that 0.04 G is good.

Best Regards
Fernando

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Hypertherm THC and HPR260 with automatic console.

« on: May 19, 2008, 05:23:43 PM »

Hey Wacko
Thanks for your reply!

Yes we have considered using the manual console, I guess the only benefit we can have from using the automatic console is cutting and piercing on the fly. But its no problem we can just make 2 toolpaths.

Do you use Mach3 with your OEM equipment? What are you using for THC?

It would be very helpful to know about the problems i might run into when using the HPR260 with mach3.
Hope you can help.
Regards
Fernando

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Hypertherm THC and HPR260 with automatic console.

« on: May 16, 2008, 10:40:59 AM »

Unfortunately i always get reffered to my local distributor (mexico) when i try to talk to someone, and frankly they dont know much about technical questions other than what they can read on the brochures.

I´ll just might have to settle with a max200 which doesnt have the automatic console, because the interphase between mach and the consol is beyond my capabilities.

Thanks again for your reply, ill keep trying to get info on that from hypertherm.

Best Regards
Fernando

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General Mach Discussion / Hypertherm THC and HPR260 with automatic console.

« on: May 13, 2008, 02:59:46 PM »

Hello Guys,
its been a loong time since i last posted, a lot of non CNC related work.

Well we have been back and forth about buying a commercial waterjet, building the table and fitting a commercial waterjet head and pump, or the same thing but for plasma.

We might have desisted on the water jet, because of all the other things that surround the operation of one (BIG BUCKS)

We have leaned toward either building, or buying a plasma machine.

We were kind of leaning toward building the table, and fit it with a hypertherm HPR260, its a hi-definition plasma big bucks too but less i think than the waterjet.

The HPR comes with an option of having an automatic gas console, in which you set the parameters of what you are cutting and the controller alone sets the type of gas and the pressure.

I was wondering if that kind on console can be controlled with Mach3, also the Command THC?

Has anyone tried to retrofit these components with mach3?, they normally use the controllers from hypertherm, which are kind of expensive but they make for a seamless integration.

hope anyone has some experience with this.
Best Regards
Fernando

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Building a Commercial WJ gantry. Need Motion/controller recomendations

« on: April 30, 2008, 07:19:12 PM »

Hey AKFALAR,
did you manage to use Mach3 for the waterjet table?
Would love to hear your experience.
Best Regards
Fernando

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Debounce for MODBUS inputs

« on: September 10, 2007, 01:57:15 AM »

Thanks Poppabear,
im using a ladder logic/basic plc core. A cubloc, and i have some minor issues on a capacitive proximity sensor going on when it shouldnt. Ill give the debounce a try to see if it affects inputs through modbus.
Regards
Fernando