Re: Two headed lathe
I'd try doing aall of the operations with the router, rough out the
column as it moves away from the headstock, and then do the finish
path as it travels towards the headstock. With what you
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Steve
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#48157
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Soft Limits setup
Hi Art.
My Mach3 quest continues. I have it running my Sherline really well but in reading the Mach3Mill documentation, I noticed that the screens don't look like the docs say.
The section on Soft
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James Holbrook <james_hol@...>
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#48156
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Re: Two headed lathe
The lathe bed is 10 FEET long, it takes several minutes to make a pass. With two cutters its is effectively making two passes on one traverse. Doubles the production rate of the machine.
ron
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Ron Ginger <ronginger@...>
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#48155
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Re: Two headed lathe
Ron could you slave two drives, like on a ganty mill with one as a
phantom axis and let each axis follow one of the drives. One on the
real one one on the phantom one??? Terry
wrote:
don't think
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vmax549 <vmax@...>
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#48154
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Re: retrofit / upgrade
has
of
the
Is it currently CNC'd? Is this mill servo or stepper based. If servo
are the drive amps still good? Do you know the servo/stepper voltages?
You may be able to keep what you
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vrsculptor <vrsculptor@...>
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#48153
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Re: for Kiran, got my left to right wizard done
Kiran,
Yes, your right, I see what you mean with the converging lines. I
think it is something I am doing on the first cut. I will keep
digging. Thanks for looking.
Zar
versa :))
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Arnie
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#48152
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Re: Development version 1.90.001 online.
web. 1.90
Downloading as we speak (slowly). I will start running some tests and
check the THC arbitration issue. Thanks
Tom Caudle
Http://www.CandCNC.com
"We just made CNC easier!"
Hardware for
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caudlet
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#48150
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Re: Reset for Jog Override %
Hi Claude:
A button with
SetOEMDRO(3, 100) will do that..
Thanks,
Art
www.artofcnc.ca
Videos And Support Forums http://www.machsupport.com Users Map: http://www.frappr.com/machsupport
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art <fenerty@...>
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#48149
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Reset for Jog Override %
Is there an OEM code one can use to reset the Jog override % to 100
from an on screen button?
If not can someone show me how it can be done?
TIA,
Claude
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CEM
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#48148
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retrofit / upgrade
I need to upgrade the control on my 1981 Tiger / Sharnoa mill. It has
a 2hp head, X 30" Y -17" and Z -5.5". I like what I've seen so far of
the mach software and would like some more input from the
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metalcaster4jc <metalcaster@...>
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#48147
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New to CNC
I'm new to CNC. I have a shoptask 3 in 1 lathe/mill and want to CNC it.
I've got 300 in oz 8 pin stepper motors and just bought Mach2. Now I'm
in a quandary about the drivers. On Ebay they are priced
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ben10237
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#48146
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Re: Two headed lathe
Ron,
I've thought more about this and came up with a few things. I don't think they'll be able to do this. Trying to interpolate two axis's with one. As the Z axis would ramp up which X feed
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R Rogers
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#48145
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Re: Development version 1.90.001 online.
Will this have any affect on tom's MP1000 THC
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shadowairport1
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#48151
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Re: More cypress problems.
None. All I know is my fully loaded systems run it fine. Its amazing that Ive never actually been perosnally afflicted with any real trouble.. and my systems pretty loaded for bear most of the
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art <fenerty@...>
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#48144
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Re: More cypress problems.
Hi Terry:
Hardwares supposed to be ready on Feb7th, testing and full development will begin then.
Emco's coming along, the electronics are now converted, and Im waiting on motors and
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art <fenerty@...>
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#48143
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Re: More cypress problems.
Art do you have any idea as to the minimum windows structure needed
to operate Mach???
will still
decimals ..ect..
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vmax549 <vmax@...>
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#48142
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Re: More cypress problems.
Whew you had me worried..... How is the Emco project going I have one
I am working on for my son to play with Mach. They must be up to
something. He has been asking alot about Grex and mach4 lately.
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vmax549 <vmax@...>
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#48141
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Re: More cypress problems.
Terry:
It shoudlnt. If your macro called it with nFMT( x, 4) then it will still be 4. It is now changed so an nFTM( x, 8) will give 8 decimals ..ect..
Thanks,
Art
www.artofcnc.ca
Videos And
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art <fenerty@...>
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#48139
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Development version 1.90.001 online.
Hi Guys:
New development version is online.
1) New Pierce DRO for pirce delay.
2) nFMT fixed for higher resolution in VB macros.
Text of the actual changes can be found in the update list on the
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art <fenerty@...>
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#48140
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Re: More cypress problems.
Art I hope that does not effect our MODIO LCD screen write
formatting?????? Terry
development version
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vmax549 <vmax@...>
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#48138
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