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General Mach Discussion / Re: profiles quest

« on: November 18, 2006, 11:37:44 AM »

bump

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General Mach Discussion / Re: trouble with wizards -

« on: June 04, 2006, 02:02:12 PM »

I haven't played with all of them yet -
so far that was the only one that crashed the program --

so how do I get the new one?

did yoiu find anything on the id arc going into negative X?

thanks

ds\

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General Mach Discussion / trouble with wizards -

« on: June 04, 2006, 11:55:20 AM »

the following are some of my observations and troubles with a couple of the wizards -
 
the OD groove wizard crashed M3 on two systems -
one has v84.000 and the other 001
 
one time it crashed so badly on the brand new system that I got with my Sherline lathe, that I couldn't even reboot.  It left a process running that I could not quit from the task manager.  Tried to reboot - but then it would not close down I guess because of the M3 process that would not unload.  Had to reset the system.  Hate to do that to Windows.
 
The id arc seems to want to cut into -X by .1" -- I went over that one a dozen times trying to figure out why it wouldn't work like I thought it should.  Reset home and x/z 0 several times - still goes negative -- even the code says -X.1??"

any help out there?  Suggestions?  Work Around?

thanks -

ds\

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G-Code, CAD, and CAM discussions / Re: G Code Editor

« on: June 03, 2006, 10:56:11 PM »

in M3 click on the edit button in the 'run' screen -

you can save out individual sections and put them together in one file if you want -

ds\\

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General Mach Discussion / Re: profiles quest

« on: May 27, 2006, 08:47:34 PM »

ya it did --

I actually tried that after I'd written -

oddly I have to do that manually if I reboot -

closing and restarting work ok -  but at least I can make it work -

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General Mach Discussion / Re: profiles quest

« on: May 27, 2006, 11:37:55 AM »

ahhh...  took a little digging but found the profile for the Taig Mill --

big Big but... here guys -

BRIAN   -- { I guess three question marks does this - sorry - not mad }

downloaded it and dropped it with the other xml profiles and good, it shows up in the
profile select list --

but when I select and open it I get a blank screen - completely blank -

I loaded it on two different systems and versions -
  84.001 on a new HP system
  90.037 on this Sony system

both version do the same thing - dead blank M3 screen.

Help? 

tnx

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General Mach Discussion / profiles quest

« on: May 24, 2006, 10:26:27 PM »

can someone tell me where I can find different brand mill profiles?

I'm specifically looking for the Taig mill -

thanks -

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General Mach Discussion / Re: newbee needs a little help

« on: May 22, 2006, 11:02:12 PM »

ok - so any suggestions on how I can convert a dxf to g-code so I can get it into M3?

OH! and not have to spend another fortune ---

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General Mach Discussion / newbee needs a little help

« on: May 22, 2006, 10:20:37 PM »

using M3 lathe Sherline R1.84

loaded by dealer on supplied system from TableTop.

acts the same as my demo copy -

clicking on file - import dxf does nothing at all -

what am I doing wrong?  tried all 3 main screens

ds