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General Mach Discussion / Re: Home switch position
« on: May 05, 2006, 12:51:58 AM »
Brian, I posted my lathe XML here. Tried again tonight, nothing I do will make the soft limits work, so I'm hoping you will see something in the XML. if you could, while you're in there, could you look at the spindle feedback, see if anything looks odd? As I said before, it's probably inductive feedback, but the spindle readout has gotten worse, it now bounces around 40,000 rpm or so, and if I start the spindle it never settles down as it used to. Thanks again!

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Home switch position
« on: May 04, 2006, 01:24:10 AM »
OK, got it to work, I had home switches set only, needed to have limits set as well, thanks for the help with all this, you guys are cool! One thing, the soft limits don't seem to be working. As I understand it, you set one end, or a mid position with the home/ limit switch, then the soft limit(s) set the other end(s) of the travel, correct? As it is now, I only have the X axis working, the stepper for the Z axis is too small and stalls constantly, have a large one coming. So, I don't know about the Z axis soft limits, but the X seems to overshoot it's number. I'll try messing with negative numbers, etc, maybe I have to double the number as it's a lathe set in diameters, not radius. Also, if I click on 'set home' it goes to it's home switch using the set home speed percentage, but if I click on 'Home' or 'Home all' it runs at full rapid, and the home speed doesen't have any effect for some reason.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Home switch position
« on: May 03, 2006, 12:19:17 PM »
Yes, pressing either home switch lights up the home light on the diagnostic page ok. No abnormal lights seem to be lit, I am having spindle feedback problems or something like that though, the spindle speed goes haywire a lot, sometimes it settles down and reads the correct speed when running, and it's light on the diagnostic page flicks on and off randomly, but I figured that this was inductive feedback. Didn't think that would be doing anything to the home switch settings though. Thing that has me confused is that the home switches work as limits ok, so I imagined that they are doing what they are supposed to.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Home switch position
« on: May 03, 2006, 01:43:26 AM »
Yes, have the home pins turned on, tried all directions and settings I can find that seem to be applicable to homing. The home switches work, they stop the motors, so this has me confused a bit. I have the correct pins set for this also. Maybe something strange with the lathe side of Mach, I don't know.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Home switch position
« on: May 01, 2006, 01:33:53 AM »
Well, got the home switches installed, and the trip points. This is a lathe, set the X axis switch at the max X position, and the Z axis switch at about the middle of it's travel. Two questions now, how do I send the machine to find the home switches? I made sure the motors were active, they jogged fine, then pushed the home buttons, I tried the x home, then the z home, then the all home, nothing happened, no movement. Second question, when I jogged to find the home switch, it shut off the motor as it should, but then I couldn't reverse off the switch, the Estop remained on, and I couldn't go anywhere. I had to go into the diagnostic screen and hit limit override to get it off the switch. I seem to remember Art saying something in one of the videos about this, but I can't find it for the life of me.

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G-Code, CAD, and CAM discussions / Re: Peculiar Z movement
« on: April 30, 2006, 07:57:29 PM »
Well, for a Fanuc mill, you usually call out tool height before doing a Z rapid move as in:
O2047
N1 G20 G56 G90 G94
(OUTER PROFILE, .625" 2FL)
N2 T8M6
N3 S2139M3
N4 G0G56X-.6912Y6.7629
N5 G43Z1.H23M8
N6 Z.1
N7 G1Z-.1F2.
This start of program is what I've always used with success.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Home switch position
« on: April 30, 2006, 10:43:11 AM »
Very cool, thanks. I went back to it late last night and understand how it works now. I would imagine that you need to make sure the saddle is on the same side before homing so the home direction setting sends it that way, if you were on the opposite side the control would run it away from the trip point to never never land, or the end of it's travel, whichever came first....

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General Mach Discussion / Home switch position
« on: April 29, 2006, 09:35:31 PM »
I looked through other posts, but, is the home position, where you reference your machine from, always at the end of the axis? What I'm asking is, can a home position be located in the middle of a travel, or somewhere along it? My lathe has a reasonably long bed, and with a low pitch ballscrew it is a ways to go to get a reference point, if the home position was able to be set closer to the work area it might be a nice feature.
                                DaveA.

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Works in progress / Re: An unfinished screen set - "Mach Blue"
« on: April 29, 2006, 01:37:34 AM »
REALLY hate to ask, is a lathe screenset of interest to you guys? Maybe even with larger touchscreen buttons for the basic run functions.... (hiding under my desk now...)

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I use Surfcam for program generation, in this, and I'm sure all CAM programs, you set the material to be cut when you generate the Gcode. You can play with the material specs to make it automatically generate the feeds and speeds you want. Example, for aluminium, it will generate a fast spindle rpm and feedrate, with hard steels a slow rpm and feedrate, and you adjust these to suit your particular machine. Unless you machine very simple parts, you need CAM, might as well use this feature as well.

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