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Tangent Corner / Re: IN-Groove Carbide Indexed Routing tools

« on: June 23, 2010, 02:08:09 PM »

Looks nice and clean, I'm guessing black ABS?

Nice job, and thank you-
Dave

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Show"N"Tell ( Your Machines) / Re: The Laser Project.

« on: June 23, 2010, 05:15:36 AM »

By all means, my friend, share away! 

Dave

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Tangent Corner / Re: IN-Groove Carbide Indexed Routing tools

« on: June 23, 2010, 05:14:56 AM »

Hi Gary,

I belong to the Vectric forums and I've heard very good things about these but it's nice to hear your thoughts as well as I've been playing with the idea of getting one. Only drawback is that I can get Onsrud engravers for 19.99 and they last forever for me so I'm not sure how much of an advantage it is for ME personally.

I'd like to hear from you on the other types of cutters like the V Bits for wood if you plan on using them.

Can you show any of your work with these and a little more detail like how deep and in what material?

Thanks,
Dave

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Plasma , new macro code

« on: June 23, 2010, 05:05:57 AM »

Thanks so much fellas, I appreciate the info and for all the help.

This will be nice to have, especially to make sure if any clamps or other obstacles may be in the way.

Have a great day-
Dave

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach3 & Calculator

« on: June 23, 2010, 05:02:02 AM »

Forgive me as I do not have Mach 3 in front of me at the moment but that option is switched on somehow.

It's in one of the upper windows menus along the top and it's called Auto Calculator (or something like that). Just click it (uncheck) and the DROs should work correctly.

Dave

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Announcement: MachStdMill screen set - release target

« on: June 22, 2010, 07:05:28 PM »

lol! I see, I figured as much-

Dave

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Plasma , new macro code

« on: June 22, 2010, 06:31:34 PM »

Ok, so I added this to the code to get it back to X and Y Zero coords:

Code"G1 X0.000 Y0.000"
While Ismoving()
  sleep 100
Wend

Is that correct? I added it like this towards the end:

Code "G1 X" & xmin   
While Ismoving()
  sleep 100
Wend

Code"G1 X0.000 Y0.000"
While Ismoving()
  sleep 100
Wend

MsgBox "Finished",0,"Auto Extents"


Thanks,
Dave

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Plasma , new macro code

« on: June 22, 2010, 05:40:57 PM »

Ok, may have found something. Ian, I've deleted a bit of your code and got it working.

You'll notice I deleted:

Code: [Select]

DoButton(8)      'ZeroX
DoButton(9)      'ZeroY
While isMoving()
Wend

DoOemButton(160) 'Regen ToolPath
While isLoading()
  sleep 100
Wend

doOEMButton(1002) 'Rewind
While isMoving()
  sleep 100
Wend




Now is this going to be safe?

Code: [Select]

'This macro MUST be run from a button
'running it from the MDI for example is not recommended

Begin Dialog Dialog1 60, 60, 104, 70, "Auto Extents"
Text 10, 10, 30, 12, "Feedrate:"
TextBox 44, 10, 50, 12, .feedrate
Text 10, 24, 30, 12, "Dwell:"
TextBox 44, 24, 50, 12, .dwell
Text 10, 38, 30, 12, "Z height:"
TextBox 44, 38, 50, 12, .zHeight

OKButton 10, 54, 40, 12
CancelButton 54,54,40,12
End Dialog

Dim Dlg1 As Dialog1

Dlg1.feedrate=getOEMDRO(818)
Dlg1.dwell=1
Dlg1.zHeight=getOEMDRO(802)

button=Dialog(Dlg1)

If button <> -1 Then
  Exit Sub
End If

xmin = minX()
xmax = maxX()
ymin = minY()
ymax = maxY()

dwell=Dlg1.dwell * 1000

Code "F" & Dlg1.feedRate & " G1 Z" & Dlg1.zHeight
While Ismoving()
  sleep 100
Wend

Code "G1 X" & xmin & " Y" & ymin
While Ismoving()
  sleep 100
Wend

sleep dwell

Code "G1 Y" & ymax
While Ismoving()
  sleep 100
Wend

sleep dwell

Code "G1 X" & xmax
While Ismoving()
  sleep 100
Wend

sleep dwell

Code "G1 Y" & ymin
While Ismoving()
  sleep 100
Wend

sleep dwell

Code "G1 X" & xmin    
While Ismoving()
  sleep 100
Wend

MsgBox "Finished",0,"Auto Extents"  

Another question, what can I add to make it go back to the zero coords that I started with when the extents is finished running?

EDIT: The reason I chose to delete those portions was because I was already doing those before running the script. I thought maybe it was getting stuck because it couldn't perform those functions because they were already done!

Thanks again,
Dave

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Plasma , new macro code

« on: June 22, 2010, 05:21:44 PM »

Well thanks for trying Ian, unfortunately same thing for me.

It runs great running it from the VB Editor, but running from the button, it once again cycles through and then the run time just counts up as if the GCode is running.

The new pop up dialog box threw me a bit too, lol!

I appreciate your persistance  
Dave

EDIT: I just don't get it, why does it run perfectly through the Editor when open, but not from a button? Is there another way to code a button to do this?

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Show"N"Tell ( Your Machines) / Re: The Laser Project.

« on: June 22, 2010, 03:34:39 PM »

Fed up, SHMED up !
One of, if not the best build threads here.
Keep em' coming Tweak !
THANKS !
Russ

Couldn't have said it better myself.

Me-thinks Tweakies owner is really a machine 

Awesome-
Dave