I am new to the forum and the reason I joined was to get help with a Lazy Cam posting problem I have.  I recently purchased a CNC Engraver from a shyster E Bayer.  The engraver came with Mach3 CNC and Lazy Cam.  I've never done CNC but being somewhat technical I thought I could pick it up enough to at least engrave some plastic placards.  My problem is that I imported a simple Autocad.dxf file of a rectangle and used Lazy Cam to add four letters of text.  I then posted the file to Mach 3.  The engraver starts engraving beautifully then just stops part way into the third letter.  When I examined the G code I noticed not all of the code posted.  I tried this numerous times with the same result each time.  Everything seems to be in place in Lazy Cam but the posting truncates the file.  I just read a forum response that implied that the version of Lazy Cam I have may be a trial version and the posting is stopping at 50 lines.  Is this my problem?  Thanks for any feedback.

Mike

Mike,
Start Mach3 and then HELP> About Mach 3 CNC Controler .....and what does it say in the box?
I may be wrong, but thought an unregistered version of Mach is limited to more than 50 lines or so of code.
If it's a trial version definitely can be your problem.
RICH

Rich,

You were right on.  Mach3 is accepting exactly 50 lines of code.  Just checked my versions of Mach3 and Lazy Cam.  Mach 3 is running a demo version, Version R2.63.  Lazy Cam does not state that it is a demo version.  It is version 2.61.  Guess I need to order some software.

Thanks for your help.

Mike

MACH woud be a good choice, you won't be sorry, get a LOT for the money, that's my opinion. It will be the foundation for other software should you desire something specific but take your time on that stuff.
RICH

Thanks Rich.  I'll purchase this morning.

Mike