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LazyTurn / Re: Is this a bug in LazyTurn?

« on: November 02, 2009, 11:49:35 AM »

Let us know how it goes, Dave, as the Dell laptops can definitely be "iffy" on whether or nor they work.

There's a thread floating around on this forum about Dells and I have a D600 and it works fine but I think the next model up (D610?) has serious voltage variances and creates havoc.

Good luck-
Dave

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LazyCam (Beta) / Re: Zooming

« on: November 02, 2009, 11:11:01 AM »

I tried that already, nothing happens when I try that.

Chris

Interesting, now that I'm home and tried it, it works perfectly for me here?

Dave

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LazyCam (Beta) / Re: Zooming

« on: November 02, 2009, 05:09:10 AM »

Hi Chris,

Haven't used LCam for awhile but try holding down the mouse wheel(third mouse button) and dragging.

Dave

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LazyTurn / Re: Is this a bug in LazyTurn?

« on: November 02, 2009, 05:03:41 AM »

Dave,

I'm at work this morning so I can't really send you any screen shots to help visually but there's yellow a ruler/scale for each the Z and the X in L- Turn.

Are you adjusting those to your liking?

Dave

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LazyTurn / Re: Is this a bug in LazyTurn?

« on: November 01, 2009, 10:35:29 AM »

Dave, you don't need a seperate screen capture program. When you have the screen showing on your monitor that you want to capture, just click the "print screen" button on your keyboard. That sends the image to the clipboard and then all you have to do is open up microsoft paint (comes with Windows) and click on Edit then paste and the image should appear. Then you can crop it (or not) and save it as a JPEG file but make sure you name it something odd like "Servolock1234" or it will not upload on this forum as this forum does not allow 2 files of the same name to be uploaded.

Then when you reply to a post, just click on the "Additional Options" link and it will slide open and then you can upload your screenshot using the "Browse" button.

Hope this helps.
Dave

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Promote and discuss your product / Re: New 4th Axis Software website, www.CNCWrapper.com

« on: October 04, 2009, 01:52:27 PM »

Thanks for a great and very reasonable (read: CHEAP!) product with some great features, Andrew.

Purchased this morning and I look forward to using when time permits.

Dave

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General Mach Discussion / Re: how to set up auto tool zero fot (X,Y,AND Z)

« on: September 26, 2009, 08:36:36 AM »

There appears to be a bug in this auto tool zero routine.  As I recall (perhaps wrongly), it used to work a long time back but now behaves strangely.   I upgraded to th 029 lockdown version just incase but it made no difference.

The symptoms:      With safe Z enabled in mach, the routine touches the plate, and sets the Z dro to the plate thickness (plate thickness from the offsets page), it does not retract at all however.   Safe Z is set at -.135, using machine coordinates and enabled in setup, it functions properly if the stop button is pressed during a program.

If safe Z is disabled,  the tool touchoff works but the dro is updated incorrectly and retracts far further than the .1 setting in the routine.   My plate is .061, retract is set at .1, it retracts to .350 or more, different each time. 

Something must have changed since the routine was written, any help would be appreciated.

Have a look at this thread on the CNC Zone but please read the WHOLE thread as there's important info in there.

Towards the end you will find the latest code that clears up all the "problems" for most users but always use caution with this code:

http://www.cnczone.com/forums/showthread.php?t=36099

Dave

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Going back to Iraq, see ya fellas.......

« on: September 17, 2009, 08:06:45 PM »

Sorry, I didn't reply sooner Scott, serving Jury Duty this week.

Take care of yourself, and of course, we'll have you in our thoughts over here.

Dave

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LazyTurn / MOVED: Lacycam export to mach3 issues

« on: September 13, 2009, 07:50:20 AM »

This topic has been moved to Lazy Cam (Beta).

http://www.machsupport.com/forum/index.php?topic=12607.0

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Metric and Imperial Auto Tool Zero Plate

« on: September 11, 2009, 10:58:53 AM »

I believe this may be what you're after? Read the first post in the thread and the codes are there for downloading but it's an xls file.

http://www.machsupport.com/forum/index.php/topic,6657.0.html

Dave