Did not remember if anyone posted this, it is a neat 3d printer. www.indiegogo.com/veloso3dprinter Brg, Richard...
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cemlhh
May 9, 2012 8:38 pm
Can anyone turn this code into INCH instead of MM its driving me nuts trying. Thanks...
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albertodcaires
May 9, 2012 9:04 pm
Hi, you can scale it down to -25.4 or you can get the F, X,Y,Z and divide it by 25.4, but if you want it here you have it, g20 f39.37 m6 t3 ; t3 diameter is...
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cemlhh
May 9, 2012 9:42 pm
Thanks...
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Roger Blair
roger_retro
May 9, 2012 9:43 pm
G20 = Inch mode g21 20 f1000 39.36996 m6 t3 ; t3 diameter is assigned in tool table g0 x90 3.543296 y90 3.543296 z20 0.7873992 m3 s2000 g42 ...
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Ger
notoneleft
May 9, 2012 11:06 pm
An alternate method is to specify the tool diameter using the P word. Like this: G20 G40 G90 G91.1 S12500 M3 G0 Z0.25 G0 X-0.50 Y-0.50 Z0.25 G1 X-0.50 Y-0.50...
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cemlhh
May 9, 2012 11:41 pm
I think I am even more confussed. After looking at them. Why put in G40? Why would you turn the Cutter Dim. off right at the start and then turn it on in line...
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Ger
notoneleft
May 10, 2012 12:07 am
G40 at the start will turn off comp if it happens to be already on, preventing errors. S12500 is the spindle speed, 12,500 rpm. Gerry ... From: "cemlhh"...
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cemlhh
May 10, 2012 12:11 am
Cool that makes sence. Thank...
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bennyattwell
May 10, 2012 12:16 am
ok, nobody suggested anything so i thought id get the lump hammer out! how do the chinese assemble these things? screws and clips everywhere and plugs you cant...
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bennyattwell
May 10, 2012 12:26 am
it gets easier once you have made a few mistakes! my first machine accepted gcode only and no display of what it would do unlike mach 3. you soon realise how...
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cemlhh
May 10, 2012 12:49 am
Really nice work. Normaly I work in alum. and stell but I am useing wood to get my up and runing to make all my mistakes with. I have one computer I do the...
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Dclifton2
shadowairport1
May 10, 2012 1:14 am
Was that a Gerber AR400? Don C Sent from Don Clifton's IPad ... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
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Metalman/Sandcrab
metalman7290
May 10, 2012 2:41 am
Hi John, Thanks for your input. I just got around to checking mine out a little more. It has Pitman 14206 stepper motors with 2000 count encoders. Two of the...
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matthew
mattcshort
May 10, 2012 4:39 am
Hi all, I need to flip the direction in which Mach thinks my table is. Meaning positive direction for X is the opposite direction that I want. Another...
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Dr Mark Vaughan
drmarkvaughan
May 10, 2012 6:55 am
Lots of VFD's dump current to earth when powered up, even worse with heavily filtered ones. They also have high inrush current to the earth line as the filters...
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jeremywillson
May 10, 2012 8:32 am
Or have a look at this to build your own. http://electronics-diy.com/soft-start-for-power-supply.php...
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Dr Mark Vaughan
drmarkvaughan
May 10, 2012 8:55 am
Yep that' the sort of thing, though it wouldn't cope with the big VFD's I run that pull over 50A. But for something small that would be fine. Put it in a box...
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handsmfg
May 10, 2012 9:22 am
I'm not at my machine right so it's hard to tell you exactly what you need to do but I think you can do it in config home/limits by checking axis reversed for...
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bennyattwell
May 10, 2012 9:48 am
this is at my house which has its own overhead 11kv supply to its own transformer. closest house is half a mile away! they wont know its me! lol i downloaded...
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bennyattwell
May 10, 2012 9:57 am
it used to be a gerber sysyem 48 (antique) its now a new drives, motors , mach3 driven "duzzit conversion" will be up for sale soon as i have another to finish...
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MICHAEL SMITHSON
nowitstaken
May 10, 2012 10:27 am
wow this is awesome http://www.onenews15.net/biz/?news=3915144...
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composite_airplane_pi...
composite_ai...
May 10, 2012 2:44 pm
I took apart the mount for the stepper motor and reversed one aluminum mounting plate per advice from the manufacturer. In the new configuration the shafts...
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CNCWoodworker@...
notoneleft
May 10, 2012 3:56 pm
You need to setup your machine to match Mach3's toolpath display. If it doesn't match, the machine is set up wrong. Gerry ... From: "matthew"...
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Gaston Gagnon
gaston_gagnon
May 10, 2012 7:33 pm
... Glad you finally solved your problem. May I asked where you purchased your Oldhams coupler, directly from Ruland? Thanks, -- ...
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Brian Barker
barker806
May 10, 2012 8:00 pm
Hello, Well after much fighting I have my first Lua script done and I am very pleased with it. I scripted the tool table out so that you can modify the number...
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nc_karl
May 10, 2012 8:14 pm
Wow! You realize you are just making us "water at the mouth" in anticipation . As a avid visual basic programmer, I am curious to see just what Lua is. I...
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Gaston Gagnon
gaston_gagnon
May 10, 2012 8:24 pm
... Talking var monitor, In Mach3 I can inspect variable but cannot change their value. Is there a way to change the variables value? Gaston [Non-text portions...
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Andy
arp1966
May 10, 2012 8:52 pm
I recently ran into the same problem with the circles, so i can help you out with that. One computer has Mach3 set to default to Absolute IJ mode and the other...
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Terry Parker
vmax549
May 10, 2012 9:47 pm
HIYA Brian, You had talked in the past about having the #var display as values in the Gcode window along the Gcode line for line. OR display the values in lue...
