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Show"N"Tell ( Your Machines) / Re: Got My mill running :)
« on: April 26, 2006, 10:12:46 PM »
blue chips hirt when they go down your shirt!!!

Those servos, are those the $600/servo motors at automationdirect? awefully expencive!

Jon

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General Mach Discussion / Re: M processor Laptop
« on: April 17, 2006, 05:53:32 PM »
some think its the speedswitching, I really dont know for sure.

for those who dont know, the problem is this: when you open mach, the whole system comes to a near hault. Whether it will output pulses or not Im not sure.

What some have suggested is disable speedwitching. another thing you want to do is close every ap, I found recently that running msn messenger 7 caused my computer to do the same thing with mach running.


Jon

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Best computer to run Mach
« on: April 08, 2006, 11:04:06 AM »
Same here, I have had 2 systems (one that I am still using) that are running onboard video WITH shared ram.


Jon

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General Mach Discussion / Re: rebooting problem
« on: April 01, 2006, 10:07:13 AM »
I think that if you totally reformatted, and only installed windows and then went through the optimization guide, it could potentially work much better.


Jon

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Minimum System Requirments for Mach2/3/4
« on: March 28, 2006, 11:50:02 AM »
I have been running Mach2 on a 650mhz laptop for some time now, previously on a 700mhz desktop. Give it a try.


Jon

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General Mach Discussion / Re: rebooting problem
« on: March 28, 2006, 11:37:07 AM »
It is very likely that dell has a ton of extra crap on that pc, all their crazy antivirus and all.  How well does Mach run on the older machine? You wouldn't want to run it on a main pc anyway?


Jon

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That one looks much better :)

Still a little flashy for my taste ;) haha

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Where are work offsets saved?
« on: March 24, 2006, 12:02:15 AM »
Basicly in the offsets settings and whatnot you can set multiple 0,0s using 'fixtures' G54, G55, G56 etc. so in the code, if you have a 0,0 thats 2" from x home and 3" from y home, you set the fixture zero there then when you write your code, you call it up by putting G54 or whatever fixture it is in there.

Heres an example of a part I made, I just threw in a few extra fixtures, these extra fixutres could be anywhere on the bed of the machine. so you could cut 3 parts in the run of one program.


Jon

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Where are work offsets saved?
« on: March 23, 2006, 12:46:39 PM »
Oh, i knwo what your doing, your changing the home position, what you want to do is leave that homed position there, go into the offsets tab and hit fixture 1 and reference them.

You can set up multiple fixtures that way,
so when your coding, add a G54 for fixture 1 at the beginning of the file before you do any moves. Only set up the x and y axes this way though. use tool offsets for Z


Jon

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Where are work offsets saved?
« on: March 23, 2006, 09:49:07 AM »
when you exit it usually asks you if you want them to be saved.

Barker/Art, I havent run mach3 much yet, but I know that when a computer crashes or mach crashes the offsets are usually lost, Could they be saved to a file right when they are entered so that they arent lost when something like that may happen?  I use to have problems with one of my computers I had running my mill and I would loose my offsets often and have to re set them up.

sshneider, Do you have home switches to reference these offsets? otherwize they arent gonna be acurate unless you leave the drives powered up and hope they dont get stray pulses to keep them in place.


Jon

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