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Feed Rate mm/sec to mm/min
« on: April 05, 2019, 06:58:21 AM »
Hello

I have a feed rate issue from running a Multicam Post Processed file on Mach3 for CNCRP.

I think I have fixed most of the other problems but cannot find a way of changing the feed rate units from mm/sec to mm/min without manually changing the g-code itself.

Is there a setting in Mach3 I can change for this?

Many thanks

Edward

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Re: Feed Rate mm/sec to mm/min
« Reply #2 on: April 05, 2019, 08:21:57 AM »
What CAM software are you using?
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Re: Feed Rate mm/sec to mm/min
« Reply #3 on: April 05, 2019, 10:13:23 AM »
UPDATE

I think I was not completely clear earlier. We have a large library of g-code files (around 300) and want to run these directly on our new machine Mach3 CNCRP Pro. The code seems to work fine (with a few settings changed) except for the feed rate which is at mm/sec in the file and mm/min in Mach3.

Making changes to the post processor or g-code is not really an option as it will mean having to manually alter over 300 files - it may come to this but I would like to avoid it.

So my question is can I change the feed rate units at the Mach3 end of things? - not the post processor or gcode end.

Many thanks

E

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Re: Feed Rate mm/sec to mm/min
« Reply #4 on: April 05, 2019, 10:32:40 AM »
Not that I'm aware of.
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Re: Feed Rate mm/sec to mm/min
« Reply #5 on: April 05, 2019, 11:25:55 AM »
How about if you could modify the FRO to go to 600%  ?
Would that not feed 10 mm/sec in the code, 10 mm/min on the machine ?
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Re: Feed Rate mm/sec to mm/min
« Reply #6 on: April 05, 2019, 11:33:41 AM »
I think you'd need 6000%.

Then there's that Mach3 bug that can cause issues when running over 200%....
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Re: Feed Rate mm/sec to mm/min
« Reply #7 on: April 05, 2019, 11:54:20 AM »
Hmmm ... wasn't aware of the bug.
But, wouldn't you just multiply by 60 (600%) ?  seconds to minutes ? not mm to meters ?

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Re: Feed Rate mm/sec to mm/min
« Reply #8 on: April 05, 2019, 12:22:22 PM »
100% is normal speed.
100x60 = 6000
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Re: Feed Rate mm/sec to mm/min
« Reply #9 on: April 05, 2019, 12:31:24 PM »
 ::) dohhhhh  ;D, Sure you're right.
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