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Polls / Most Popular Motor Frames

« on: January 01, 2010, 02:47:01 AM »

Hi all,

This poll is related to the product shown in this thread http://www.machsupport.com/forum/index.php/topic,13579.0.html

Comments are welcome.

Thanks,
Daniel

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Show"N"Tell ( Your Machines) / Re: My new project

« on: January 01, 2010, 01:57:19 AM »

What a good looking machine you made there Monty! Waiting forward to some more photos AND videos

Daniel

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Works in progress / Re: All in one lathe screen (Beta)

« on: December 29, 2009, 09:11:11 AM »

I like the look of your screen Friedrich. Could you add an LED besides the tool number to indicate if the offset for the tool is active?

Daniel

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Show"N"Tell ( Your Machines) / Re: CNC CONVERSION - 6" ATLAS LATHE

« on: December 23, 2009, 02:18:32 PM »

Ah... forgot you had that nice milling attachment Is it a self made spindle you attached to the electric motor?

Daniel

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Show"N"Tell ( Your Machines) / Re: CNC CONVERSION - 6" ATLAS LATHE

« on: December 23, 2009, 09:55:47 AM »

Looks good Rich! What kind of work are you intending to perform on this lathe requiring indexing?

Daniel

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Engraving around outside of a tube

« on: December 17, 2009, 03:25:36 PM »

Try CamBam http://www.cambam.co.uk it has a free version with some limitations... http://www.cambam.co.uk/download/previous/beta-081.html may be it will do for you.

Daniel

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Help with Spindle Index please

« on: December 17, 2009, 11:47:26 AM »

Hi John,

Art mentioned on the other group that the last versions of Mach3 (which had the threading fixed) had problems with CPU speeds higher than 2.1Ghz. If that's the case for you then that's probably your problem. I don't know if it's only the speed display which is affected.

As a temporary fix you'll have to go back to some previous version (3.042.029 I think was the last one known as good). As I said the next version should be out soon with the fix in it.

Daniel

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Engraving around outside of a tube

« on: December 17, 2009, 11:01:00 AM »

Check out CNCWrapper http://www.cncwrapper.com

Daniel

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Using The Knee For Tool Length Comp....

« on: December 17, 2009, 08:01:41 AM »

Just had it happen a few times Used the MDI after running a program forgetting that M30 turns off any offsets. Probably need a big LED on the screen to show if the offset is enabled. Another idea I had is creating a macro that would check the current tool and see of the right offset is enabled before executing any commanded move. If not it would throw a warning message.

Daniel

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Using The Knee For Tool Length Comp....

« on: December 17, 2009, 07:45:06 AM »

Thanks Hood.

The only "drawback" I can see in using the shortest "tool" as the reference is if for some reason one forgets to enable the offset for the current tool causing the quill collide with something. On the other hand, nothing would happen if the longest tool was used as a reference - the other tool tools simply won't reach the work surface if the offset is not enabled.

Daniel