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Show"N"Tell ( What you have made with your CNC machine.) / Re: Gertrude Gets Some!

« on: February 11, 2010, 08:48:01 AM »

Hi Chris,

Haven't seen you for awhile (haven't been online as much myself either), glad everything is cool with you and good to see you back.

Beautiful work as always, and always appreciate the pics.

Thanks,
Dave

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Tangent Corner / Re: HERE'S WHAT'S HAPPENING IN MY NECK OF THE WOODS

« on: February 11, 2010, 08:41:41 AM »

I'm ready for spring too, 

Yesterday:






This morning starting digging out...:









Stay warm, everyone...
Dave

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Peck Drilling macros for the Lathe

« on: February 06, 2010, 07:13:14 AM »

Thanks fellas and thanks chris for posting these.

I'm actually planning a multi-tool setup much like in the video shown earlier in this thread, so these will definitely come in handy down the road.

Have a great day-
Dave

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Peck Drilling macros for the Lathe

« on: February 05, 2010, 06:47:04 PM »

Hi Chris,

Any chance you could repost these macros? It seems Melee's link is not working for downloading these anymore.

Thanks,
Dave

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General Mach Discussion / Re: losing probe signals with USB game controller?

« on: February 03, 2010, 12:30:38 PM »

No worries on pointing fingers, there's obviously a problem as you're definitely not alone apparenty.

I was just trying to narrow down some issues, but if it's wired, I guess we're back to square one in the "investigation". There are just so many various manufacturers out there, it makes it difficult to find where the culprit is.

It now makes me a "little" nervous using this at times,
Dave

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General Mach Discussion / Re: losing probe signals with USB game controller?

« on: February 03, 2010, 11:22:09 AM »

Revwarguy, is the controller a wireless controller? Reason I ask is I've heard numerous issues using wireless devices.

I'm in the same boat as Tweakie, with a crude piece of circuit board connected as my probe. I was setup for the touchprobe for over a year (at least) and never ran into an issue. Then I heard about all the G31 issues and was thinking I was just living on borrowed time and ended up following Gregs direction and copied his updated macro into Mach. Knock on wood, still no issues with the touch probing using a Shuttle Pro 2.

Dave

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LazyTurn / Re: LazyTurn

« on: January 26, 2010, 06:41:49 PM »

Art, thanks for the reply, I actually did play with the new tool but not sure what I'm doing, so I am guilty of that.

Here's another blowup super close with the tool tip, and remember, the tool tip is .002" of an inch.

See how the pass does a graceful angle and then makes a sharp right angle (hook) towards  X.000? (Note, image is a bmp for clarity as a JPG got too fuzzy, sorry.) Not sure I completely understand your explanation but I think when you said: "Processing will mean clipping its front and back to the size of the profile, and then progressively extending it outward suntil no more stock mterial is found." I believe that clears it up for me.



Thanks,
Dave

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LazyTurn / Re: LazyTurn

« on: January 26, 2010, 05:08:07 PM »

Hi Art,

I don't really have a lot of time here lately but wanted to ask a quick question about the latest "test".

So far this finish pass looks nice with 3 of my files at this point. Not very elaborate parts but....

I have a screenshot with some picture inserts showing the tool parameters I used and also showing a blow up area of my question. Notice how the finish pass line in red hooks around the end? It does it at "Z" zero as well, is this an issue or just something that's unimportant at this point?



Thanks for keeping on this, I appreciate it very much -
Dave

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Laser pointers to set starting mill position

« on: November 28, 2009, 12:22:10 PM »

Unfortunately, the only ready made one of these that "I" know of is the Laser finder:

http://www.lasercenteredgefinder.com/main.html

I heard good things and bad things and even bought one. The stem was bent and it ran out about .020. Told them about it and they kindly offered me a replacement or a new one. Since it was made out of aluminum, I opted for a refund and I ended up building my own with one of these:

http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.5942~r.91939619

Works great but I do not hold it in the spindle. I have it attached to the headstock on the side and I use a macro to locate the origin of my work. Now to be fair, I know "Rich" on this forum bought some of these and he was unhappy with the line thickness so your mileage may vary.

Dave

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General Mach Discussion / Re: How to install Shuttle Pro?

« on: November 28, 2009, 08:00:10 AM »

Just thought I'd post the setup guide download for the Shuttle Pro 2 as it's on the Plugins download page (just look up under the Artsoft logo in the downloads menu).

http://www.machsupport.com/plugins/ShuttleProInstallation.pdf

Ray, wow, quite a turn around from loving the Shuttle like you used to, eh? I'm still a huge fan of it, especially with the 10 macros now. Albeit, a little awkward to hold but I have kind of big hands and I added a stainless bar/handle to make holding it and picking it up much easier. Absolutely love the jogwheel and I have had no issues with that being glitchy at all, and believe me, as you all know, I would have complained 

Hood, that console looks great-

Dave