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General Mach Discussion / Re: Possible bug with jogging

« on: October 17, 2011, 06:41:21 AM »

I know what you mean, Rich

Dan

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Possible bug with jogging

« on: October 17, 2011, 06:34:44 AM »

Check what your increment step is set to. It may be set to a large value (e.g. 1mm) and your feedrate is set very slow so you're seeing it doing that large increment at a very slow feed.

Dan

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General Mach Discussion / Re: cutter comp

« on: October 17, 2011, 06:28:23 AM »

If you program for the tool centre then you need to compensate for its radius.

I think your problem is in the X start position:

G0 x.12 y0.0

Change that to:

G0 x0 y0

And you should get a 1" hole with:

G3 I-.25 J0

Dan

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Works in progress / Re: New IPS (Interactive Programming System) Professional Screen for Turn

« on: October 11, 2011, 06:44:13 AM »

Hi Wes,

Something I had forgotten to mention before I started this run of parts - would you consider adding a parts counter DRO? Should be fairly simple and you already have a macropump anyway so will only have to look at the Cycle button being activated and count it.

Another thing which may not be that simple is a total elapsed time DRO (from the moment Mach loads). It has to be zero-able. Together with the part counter it can be a very valuable tool for high volume runs.

Dan

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Works in progress / Re: New IPS (Interactive Programming System) Professional Screen for Turn

« on: October 11, 2011, 05:06:28 AM »

Thanks, but aside from some critics I haven't done much... It's Wes who you wanted to address the compliment to

Dan

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

« on: September 16, 2011, 10:29:31 AM »

Very interesting Tweakie. Thanks for showing.

Was it at the laser's max power or were you limited by the top feedrate of the machine? And how is it that the laser doesn't leave burnt edges?

Dan

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Works in progress / Re: New IPS (Interactive Programming System) Professional Screen for Turn

« on: September 14, 2011, 04:32:32 AM »

Not that I am aware of, but often people have a stable setup and are just not willing to take the chance involved in upgrading to a new version (which makes sense to me).

Dan

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Works in progress / Re: New IPS (Interactive Programming System) Professional Screen for Turn

« on: September 14, 2011, 03:43:54 AM »

By "recently", Hood was meaning the recent addition of DRO 245. Up until recently this DRO was not implemented.

Dan

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Works in progress / Re: New IPS (Interactive Programming System) Professional Screen for Turn

« on: September 14, 2011, 12:31:23 AM »

In all screens I will be giving the option to set both the tool number and the offset. This will allow you to do whatever method you desire. If the offset is 0 it will be set the same as the tool. this should make everyone happy.

Wes,

As I previously said, just make sure the name of the tool is tied to the offset number (yy in Txxyy). I think it wouldn't affect the new tol numbering while it would be beneficial for the old one.

Dan

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Works in progress / Re: New IPS (Interactive Programming System) Professional Screen for Turn

« on: September 14, 2011, 12:28:32 AM »

Oh... Thanks Hood. It didn't come to my mind. So I can program T0404 for the turret and T1010 for the gang tool and the turret won't rotate.

Dan