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General Mach Discussion / Re: Bewildered and at wits end

« on: December 09, 2005, 01:28:28 AM »

I notice that you are trying to use a feedrate with a G0 rapid, modally. I've run a lot of Fanuc machines and would never try this. Not really sure if it has anything to do with your problem, it's just all I see there that doesen't look right.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Turning UHMW Poly on CNC

« on: November 17, 2005, 11:49:02 PM »

A three jaw chuck is also trouble, the jaws catch the chip string as it comes off and then it's time to empty out the chip tray around the chuck! Other problem with a 3 jaw is it acts like a big fan and the air swirl goes back behind it, sucking the strand with it into, yes, the chuck again. If you can use a collet chuck it's a bit better as there are no jaws to fan the chips or catch them as they come off the part. Don't try to leave the machine unattended for very long or scrapped parts often results!

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Using machine PC to run other stuff

« on: November 11, 2005, 05:40:14 PM »

If possible I woundn't run other software either, but sometimes you get behind and have to do it. Has anyone actually had a machine running and had other software make the control falter or have any actual trouble that they are sure was caused by the two overloading the PC?

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General Mach Discussion / Using machine PC to run other stuff

« on: November 10, 2005, 12:46:46 AM »

Hello, I haven't as yet run this software on my new CNC router (Haven't actually taken delivery yet) but it looks like it will be nice stuff. A question I have is, what other software might possibly have conflicts to it, I use some average and higher end CAD stuff, and is it advisable to run it while the Mach3 software is actually controlling the CNC? How about software that loads icons on the right side of the Windows toolbar, this is typically programs that are running in the background, should I try to not have any of those programs on this machine? PC is an XP1900, 256 meg RAM, ATI 64 meg video card running two monitors, one is a touchscreen on the CNC.