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General Mach Discussion / Re: Skipped Parts

« on: February 07, 2013, 04:57:30 AM »

Ok, thanks, and there will be others that are a lot smarter than me when it comes to Mach, but you may want to list what your using for your CAM program and the post processor you use as well.

Also, upload your Mach 3 XML file (rename it something like "wilfoude13.xml" when you upload it).

What get's me thinking it's a CAM thing is the fact that you say Mach 3 normally works.

Dave

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Skipped Parts

« on: February 04, 2013, 09:19:57 AM »

Wow, never heard of this one, can you possibly take a video showing this, or possibly give a step by step detailed picture of what's happening on the machine and what shows in Mach 3 when it is happening?

Is it completely jumping the part to another part altogether? If not, maybe your depth on that particular part is not set properly in the CAM program?

I'm sure one of the pros here will help, but that is definitely first for me.
Dave

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General Mach Discussion / MOVED: CNCDIY MPG Handwheel Controller

« on: February 02, 2013, 06:38:37 PM »

This topic has been moved to Third party software and hardware support forums..

http://www.machsupport.com/forum/index.php?topic=22483.0

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Show"N"Tell ( What you have made with your CNC machine.) / Re: Laser Diode Engraving

« on: February 02, 2013, 06:56:43 AM »

Nice, and will be very effective, but why use expensive brass when you could use wood dowels to match, and then you wouldn't need rubber boots that may "eat" into the silver if left on there too long touching in the same spot?

Just throwing that out there as I've seen how rubbery plastics and other materials not play nice together. 
Dave

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Post Processors / Re: Solidcam 2006 Rev10 to mach2-mach3 post pro

« on: January 30, 2013, 05:45:16 PM »

I think your best bet would be to contact your salesman where you bought the program as that is part of their job to set you up with a proper post processor for Mach 3.

Dave

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General Mach Discussion / MOVED: South Bend Fourteen Lathe conversion

« on: January 30, 2013, 03:25:23 PM »

This topic has been moved to Show"N"Tell ( Your Machines).

http://www.machsupport.com/forum/index.php?topic=23594.0

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Show"N"Tell ( What you have made with your CNC machine.) / Re: Always Kiss Me Sign

« on: January 29, 2013, 11:40:30 AM »

You're very welcome, I don't get to help a l lot of folks as I'm basically just part of the "clean-up" crew for the forum, it feels good 

Dave

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Show"N"Tell ( What you have made with your CNC machine.) / Re: Always Kiss Me Sign

« on: January 29, 2013, 10:57:25 AM »

Nice work there  

There is a feature called "tiling" that will help with this. You should have a look at all the video tutorials Vectric offers as they are extremely helpful. There's one in there on tiling, go here, and I think it's video #10.

http://www.vectric.com/WebSite/Vectric/support/aspire3_vcp6/aspire3_vcp6_tutorials_tut_mach.html

By the way, you should start your own thread on your machine builds as half the folks here aren't getting to see the pics as they're buried in this thread. 

Dave

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Post Processors / Re: Mach3 post for mastercam

« on: January 29, 2013, 05:08:31 AM »

Thank you, I've moved this topic to the proper area to help others.

Dave

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General Mach Discussion / MOVED: Mach3 post for mastercam

« on: January 29, 2013, 05:07:55 AM »

This topic has been moved to Post Processors.

http://www.machsupport.com/forum/index.php?topic=23568.0