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VB and the development of wizards / Re: Starting external editor
« on: December 31, 2006, 08:16:10 PM »
There is an option in the general config dialog in the config menu. at the top second column from the left theres a space that says editor, point the path to your editor, now everytime you press edit code in the main program window, that editor will open,
you can then edit your code, save it, and the gcode in mach will update, if you want to open it again, just press edit g-code again.
Hope thats what you are looking for.
Regards
Fernando

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Changing init line
« on: December 31, 2006, 04:32:28 PM »
You should actually go to the wizzard screen, and go to the operator menu at the top, and select edit button script.
you will see buttons that have a VB script flash, click on any of the buttons and the script embedded in it will show up.
look for the string brian said and change it to whatever you want it to be. then save it, and thats it.

You should look on any of the flashing buttons, but most likely it will be the button you press to post the code.
Hope that helps
Regards
Fernando

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Steps per inch (Uneven numbers)
« on: December 31, 2006, 02:48:52 AM »
just put that number in the steps per inch dialog, put as many decimals as it will let you.
I think what mach will do is round as much as it can. It should work, although the number is quite small, so maybe resolution will not be that good.
Regards
Fernando

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General Mach Discussion / Re: G81 Question
« on: December 30, 2006, 03:14:13 PM »
1. rapid height should not be at 0.0, that would leave a line where the drill marks the surface when traveling from hole to hole.
2. 5 inches downward would make it Z-5.0. On most machines, (and i think its better this way) when your tool moves into your material, regardless of what is moving (spindle or table) the move is negative, if the material is moving away from the tool, then the move is possitive.
So your line of code should turn out to be like this:

N45 G81  X0.4771  Y1.1648  Z-0.5000  R0.1000  F3.00

So R=0.1 is greater than Z=-0.5

This code will drill a hole at X=0.4771 and Y=1.1648, at a depth of 0.5 inches (z=-0.5), at a feed of 3 inches per minute, when the hole is done, the tool will rapid back at 0.1 over the material. and will be ready to rapid to another hole location. (all this providing the Z movement is negative when the tool goes into the material)

Hope that helps
Regards
Fernando

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Show"N"Tell ( What you have made with your CNC machine.) / V carved plauqe
« on: December 29, 2006, 10:43:57 PM »
This is a conmemorative plaque for a public school here in Mexico, it is made from a solid surface that we manufacture, the actual color is black with white veins, although you can barely see the veins in the picture.
This is my first V-carve attempt. Its 31.5" by 19.625" by 0.5" thick
Regards
Fernando

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Tangent Corner / Re: tapered endmills vs router v bits
« on: December 27, 2006, 03:17:08 AM »
Thanks for the offer Chaoticone, I have sources for the bits, but they are not local, I wanted to get rid of the hassle of having to buy them online and have them shipped international, pay customs, taxes etc...
I guess Ill give the countersink, files, and burs a try
I dont see why they shoudlnt work

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Tangent Corner / Re: tapered endmills vs router v bits
« on: December 26, 2006, 10:03:19 PM »
Im cutting solid surface (corian) and wood. I have one router v bit its a 90º 1/2" carbide, and i was cutting a pattern in that material at 50ipm 22,000rpm i think the depth of cut was between 1/8" and 1/4" cant remember.
Regards
Fernando

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Tangent Corner / tapered endmills vs router v bits
« on: December 26, 2006, 09:50:38 PM »
Hello,
Im trying to find out if using tapered end mills would work for doing v-bin carving. Im in Mexico, and finding router bits for this aplication is difficult.
Any suggestions on what to use instead of router bits?
I was looking at some 60º burrs, rotary files, and even coutersinks

Regards
Fernando

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General Mach Discussion / Re: code for feedrate override reset
« on: December 21, 2006, 03:14:05 PM »
Just so everybody knows
its button 14 that does the Feedrate override reset.
So making a macro would go something like this:
Open up the VB Script editor in mach 3, make a new file for your macro, I called mine m300.m1s
and type the following in:
DoButton(14)

Save it in the macros folder under the profile you are using. Now to use it, just add the M300 to the Gcode you are running and thats it. You can try if it works by overriding the feed rate and typing M300 in the MDI line, it should reset to 100%

To some, this is pretty trivial, but for beginers (we all were at some point) it scares us to try and do something like this. But if we try simple stuff like this, we can get more confortable with things like this, and try their own modifications.

Thanks again
Fernando

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General Mach Discussion / Re: code for feedrate override reset
« on: December 21, 2006, 02:25:21 PM »
Smart you!

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