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General Mach Discussion / Re: Unequal Depth of Cut

« on: September 27, 2012, 05:02:03 AM »

Nicolas,

To get the best level surface, don't forget to take a surface cut of the MDF table top.

Dave

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General Mach Discussion / MOVED: turning on outputs in prokey 55 from mach3

« on: September 27, 2012, 05:00:22 AM »

This topic has been moved to PoKeys.

http://www.machsupport.com/forum/index.php?topic=22523.0

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VB and the development of wizards / Re: Simple Little Button Script

« on: September 27, 2012, 04:58:29 AM »

Angie, can't you just have a programmed button on the shuttle pro to choose the X axis?

I'm guessing you already have your buttons mapped out the way you like and you have no more "empty" buttons left to use?

Dave

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Irregular height of material possible?

« on: September 25, 2012, 05:14:47 PM »

I think what you should do is just start looking around at CAD and Cam software, and try all of the trials you can, as there isn't one that is the best at everything. I highly recommend anything from Vectric as it's just a piece of cake to learn, and that's coming from a basic newbie when I started. They have the best tutorials and VERY helpful forums as well. Just some of the nicest people over there.

Naturally the more you spend, the more options you will get, but again, try as many programs as you can to see what's right for you. Watch youtube videos, ask questions, anything to "take it all in" so that you can get comfortable with the terms of what is what when it comes to CNC.

Dave

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Irregular height of material possible?

« on: September 25, 2012, 01:51:05 PM »

Mike, I believe what you would have to do in this situation is set this up in your CAM program the way it is in "real life". Mach 3 will do what ever Gcode you input into it but it has to be told this information from somewhere, and that somewhere is what you setup in the CAM program you have and then generate GCode from that.

Hope that makes a little sense?
Dave

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SmoothStepper USB / Re: Smooth Stepper Saga - Hope It Helps Someone

« on: September 19, 2012, 05:12:09 AM »

Thanks, Zeeway, I'm absolutely sure this will help someone here so I appreciate you sharing this with us.

Welcome to the forum- 
Dave

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mouse interfacing

« on: September 16, 2012, 09:26:44 AM »

Hi, John, this may be of some interest to you-

http://www.cnczone.com/forums/general_electronics_discussion/51494-cheap_mpg_cnc_using_optical.html

Dave

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Show"N"Tell ( Your Machines) / Re: Conect 121 lathe retro

« on: September 15, 2012, 03:50:08 PM »

Some nice progress here, Hood, looks great-

thanks for sharing-
Dave

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Show"N"Tell ( What you have made with your CNC machine.) / Re: Fun project, hopefully a moneymaker!

« on: September 11, 2012, 12:22:21 PM »

Hi Jammer,

Another brilliant idea. 

I do admire your casting work.

Tweakie.

Ditto! Great job- 

Dave

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Show"N"Tell ( Your Machines) / Re: 1997 DYNA MYTE DM4800 VMC to Mach3 Conversion

« on: August 31, 2012, 04:43:58 PM »

Ah, I kind of imagined there would be, thanks for that-

Dave