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Show"N"Tell ( What you have made with your CNC machine.) / Re: GEAR CUTTING TOOL - POST#2

« on: August 24, 2008, 10:51:02 AM »

Nice, thanks for sharing Rich!

In reference to the hand written sheet picture, you really should upgrade to electric lighting nowdays as candles aren't really good for your eyes - 

Dave

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mouse, keyboard disappear then total shutdown, Mach3, Dell Laptop

« on: August 24, 2008, 10:47:19 AM »

Jeff,

I can't run my machine in ACPI mode in XP at all as the motors just sit and grind for me. But once I do the process above, it's like night and day.

Dave

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Forum suggestions and report forum problems. / Saving threads/Topics?

« on: August 24, 2008, 10:34:46 AM »

Very dumb question but how do I save certain threads for referencing later?

Thanks,
Dave

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mouse, keyboard disappear then total shutdown, Mach3, Dell Laptop

« on: August 24, 2008, 10:32:53 AM »

Ray,

- "Start" button
- right click "MY Computer" Icon
- click "Hardware" Tab
- click "Device Manager" button
- click the plus sign next to "Computer" and it will probably say something like,  "ACPI PC" under it.
- right click on ACPI and click "Update Driver" then click "no, not at this time" then "Next"
- then click "Install from a list" then click "Next"
- then click "don't search, I will choose driver" then "Next" button.
-then click "Standard PC" option and then finish and it will ask you to restart. Click Yes and then follow what I typed above.

Hope that helps,
Dave

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mouse, keyboard disappear then total shutdown, Mach3, Dell Laptop

« on: August 24, 2008, 08:45:20 AM »

Jeff,

I use a Dell D600 and here's my setup to optimize:

I can tell you exactly what I do as I use my PC for my machine and webuse. You can switch back and forth between Standard PC and ACPI PC modes. When switching to Standard PC mode (procedure shown below:), after the computer restarts, I then go into Task Manager and click on the Process tab and then click on the USER Name menu (You) and turn off everything except:

- explorer.exe
- tfswctrl.exe

Leave all the Local Service, Network Service and System settings alone.
 
Set Computer to Standard PC NOT ACPI PC

1. Right Click My Computer and select Properties
2. Click Hardware tab.
3. Click Device Manager Button in the middle.
4. Double click "Computer".
5. Right click on Standard ACPI PC and choose Update Driver.
6. Choose "Install the software from a Specific Location (Advanced)"
7. Click Next.
8. Choose "Don't search. I will choose driver to install."
9. Click Next.
10. Choose "Standard PC" from the listing.
11. Click Next.
12. Click OK.

Restart and turn off the process' running explained above and you should     be good to go.

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LazyCam (Beta) / Re: Some general questions

« on: August 23, 2008, 05:43:22 PM »

Indeed I have my friend and anytime I can contribute, I surely will-

Dave-

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LazyCam (Beta) / Re: Some general questions

« on: August 23, 2008, 05:15:48 PM »

Kristin, in the layers tab at the bottom, look for the "cut depth" box and in there, after the colon, put a minus sign and then put in your depth of cut. 

Hope that helps?

Dave

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Mach Screens / Re: Mist On / Off LED

« on: August 23, 2008, 08:39:08 AM »

Al, here's a screen shot of screen 4 opened to show you how mine is setup. If you look just left of the dialog box you can see my flood button with the little LED inside the button (not lit up). Hope this helps!

Dave

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General Mach Discussion / Re: LazyCam problems

« on: August 21, 2008, 08:14:04 AM »

Excellent, glad it worked out for you, the parts look great!

As for being a God, not quite, it's just all the great help I've gotten from the fine folks here in the past - 

Dave

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General Mach Discussion / Re: LazyCam problems

« on: August 20, 2008, 04:29:28 PM »

Steve,

Did you "clean" it first?

This worked perfectly for me but try zooming in on the shape as close as you can or try moving the starting point around to different areas before you offset.

Dave