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jalsina
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October 24, 2013, 10:24:29 PM »
Greetings! I've just built an XY plotter to practice CAD/CAM skills on before starting real machining.
How do I tell Mach3 that I just want to draw lines, and have no Z axis, just a pen controlled by a solenoid, i.e., a single bit?
Thx.
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Picengraver
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October 25, 2013, 04:46:24 AM »
Connect your pen solenoid to the Z axis direction pen. Then a negative Z move ( Z-.001) will lower the pen and a positive move (Z0) will raise it. We do the same with laser control.
John Champlain
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jalsina
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October 25, 2013, 12:06:25 PM »
Thanks. Perfectly obvious once you know it. That's what being a newby is all about.
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Picengraver
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October 25, 2013, 02:09:50 PM »
We all were once. ;>)
John Champlain
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