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Re: Version 5 powering turning of computer
Les Newell
I think there are a number of problems with V5. For instance I installed it on my mill and it refused to turn the spindle on. M03 or pressing the spindle button has zero effect. There also appeared to be a few keyboard problems. Installing V4.0a solved the problems.
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On my house computer it appeared to run correctly. Les Digital audio Pro wrote: never, and not yet with version 5... :=) |
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Re: G41 (was: First drawing software)
Michael Milligan
John
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The CAD module is available on a FREE download at the following site www.dolphin.gb.com Contact me of list if you require any assistance. Regards Michael Dolphin Cad Cam Systems Ltd -----Original Message-----
From: john bartlett [mailto:j595504@...] Sent: 12 March 2004 02:34 To: mach1mach2cnc@... Subject: Re: [mach1mach2cnc] Re: G41 (was: First drawing software) I'm new to cnc and have a new cutting systems plasma table. I'd like the cad program you have and all help I can get. Thanks stevenson_engineers <john@...> wrote:>--- In mach1mach2cnc@..., "Donald Hansen" <dhansen45@y...> wrote: This is very true, some programs insist that you have arrows on all the lines to show the way they were drawn and if not in the correct order you then need to jump thru hoops to re organiase the ay they need to go. As Michael has stated with Dolphin this isn't nessesary and the arrows went out with Col. Cusler. John S. --------------------------------- Yahoo! Groups Links To visit your group on the web, go to: To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: mach1mach2cnc-unsubscribe@... Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Search - Find what you're looking for faster. Yahoo! Groups Links |
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Mastercam Post
Hi everybody,
For those using Mastercam V9, I just uploaded a post file that I created by tweaking the master slightly. It seems to have fixed my problem with the machine not going up in Z first as well as some tool offset syntax errors. Hope you can use it! If you find problems with it, email me direct and I can take a crack at fixing it, though I no expert at Mastercam postprocessor files by any means. Thanks, -Chris |
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New file uploaded to mach1mach2cnc
Hello,
This email message is a notification to let you know that a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the mach1mach2cnc group. File : /mach2new.pst Uploaded by : brunoblazer <bruno@...> Description : Mastercam V9 Post for Mach2 You can access this file at the URL To learn more about file sharing for your group, please visit Regards, brunoblazer <bruno@...> |
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Re: G41 (was: First drawing software)
john bartlett
I'm new to cnc and have a new cutting systems plasma table. I'd like the cad program you have and all help I can get. Thanks
stevenson_engineers <john@...> wrote:>--- In mach1mach2cnc@..., "Donald Hansen" <dhansen45@y...> wrote: This is very true, some programs insist that you have arrows on all the lines to show the way they were drawn and if not in the correct order you then need to jump thru hoops to re organiase the ay they need to go. As Michael has stated with Dolphin this isn't nessesary and the arrows went out with Col. Cusler. John S. --------------------------------- Yahoo! Groups Links To visit your group on the web, go to: To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: mach1mach2cnc-unsubscribe@... Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Search - Find what you抮e looking for faster. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] |
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Re: PWM to 0-10VDC
Steve Blackmore
On Thu, 11 Mar 2004 23:56:08 -0000, you wrote:
I made the circuit in the files with the LM358AN and the 100K multiHi Jack - just insert or remove the tick in Active low for PWM out pin - that should sort the reverse action. Tuning "may" increase the voltage, but I found I had to supply 14V to get 10V out. You should still be able to get the VFD to work full range on 0-5.5V by setting it's low/high limit pots. I could never get anything like a linear response from the PWM so gave up and went to step out instead. Still not linear, but much better. I think the reason is a linear change in pulse width does not represent a linear change in RMS voltage. Commercial circuits are much more complex than the LM358 one. The Robot guys often use a PIC and lookup tables to get a PWM to VDC linear response, too complicated for me ;) -- Steve Blackmore |
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PWM to 0-10VDC
Help!!! Help !!!
I made the circuit in the files with the LM358AN and the 100K multi turn etc. to drive my VFD. Can only get about 5.5 vDC and it is backwards. When I lower the speed in MACH2 it goes up and visa versa ???? I can turn on and off with SSR-to VFD and change the speed (in reverse)to about 1/2 desired speed. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Just to get it running is a big feat for Elect Dunce Here. Any chance I got the POT screwed up ? Thanks soo much Jack Hoffa |
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Re: Mach2 skipping over M09......... More info for scott
--- In mach1mach2cnc@..., Scott Wilson <swilson@d...>
wrote: i use dwell as well Great thats what I was hoping for. Can you tell me how long your using for yor dwell? Also what version of Mach you're running and are you using the special driver. (I am ). Thanks Derek |
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Re: Version 5 powering turning of computer
lockup are 97 % of the time hardware or drivers issue, 2 % windows issue, 1
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% user applications issue. Olivier. -----Message d'origine-----
De : barker806 [mailto:brian_barker@...] Envoy茅 : jeudi 11 mars 2004 23:03 脌 : mach1mach2cnc@... Objet : [mach1mach2cnc] Version 5 powering turning of computer Hello If I do a jog at a slow rate in version 5 I can get the machine to turn off the monitor??? Lockup and other fun things.... I put in version 3.5 and it works great .... this one has me stumped.. I was thinking that it could be a memory thing. any other people had anything like this happen before? Thank you Brian |
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Re: Version 5 powering turning of computer
never, and not yet with version 5... :=)
Version 5 is a developement version :=) Art will have some good surprises when it will come back from sun ! Coud be an issue with the video driver, i think there could be a timing conflict, too much dead time in the video driver thread, causing the card to issue a turn off monitor. The mach2 ring0 driver is a real time process. Does you driver use an interupt or not ? if not try to activate the interupt (sometime this setting is in the motherboard bios, sometimes in the driver setup, sometimes no settings) to see if it solves the problem. Olivier. |
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Re: Mach2 skipping over M09......... More info
Scott Wilson
i use dwell as well
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Version 5 powering turning of computer
barker806
Hello
If I do a jog at a slow rate in version 5 I can get the machine to turn off the monitor??? Lockup and other fun things.... I put in version 3.5 and it works great .... this one has me stumped.. I was thinking that it could be a memory thing. any other people had anything like this happen before? Thank you Brian |
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Re: Mach2 Missed steps but not????
Ted Gregorius
I'm a designer and have built my own controller using a Motorola MSP430F149 micro along with my own chopper drive circuit running my steppers. It has been working flawlessly with all previous versions of Art's software and I even ran it for a while on EMC (ouch, it hurts to remember that). I would think this wuold eliminate a Gecko related problem. My processor design is edge triggered so it does not care about pulse width.
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There is no vibration or mechanical problems that I can attribute to this. My production job is basically a drilling operation with 230 holes in plastic (5 modules on a pallet each requireing 46 holes). Pretty light duty for my system. I recently completed a 500 piece job (100 runs) using the 3.x version of MACH 2 without a single problem. BTW I have just completed the fifth run today using 4.0a with CV mode OFF and they are perfect. Can't wait to throw off my work hat and put on the hobby hat and try that engraving again tonight. I'ts my goal to make sure this machine never stops cutting somthing. Ted Gregorius (Pres) TAG Systems Racing Products, Inc. www.tagrace.com ----- Original Message -----
From: Digital audio Pro To: mach1mach2cnc@... Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2004 3:46 PM Subject: RE: [mach1mach2cnc] Re: Mach2 Missed steps but not???? Do you have servos or steppers ? Olivier. -----Message d'origine----- De : rrc62_03782 [mailto:rrc62@...] Envoy茅 : jeudi 11 mars 2004 20:05 脌 : mach1mach2cnc@... Objet : [mach1mach2cnc] Re: Mach2 Missed steps but not???? "Real mach2 problem or mechanical resonance.... ?? Anyone with similar strange gain steps on Z axis, - direction ?" I had a problem with the Z two days ago. I lost steps in the other direction. At the end of the program, the tool was about .050 higher than it should have been. I was running identical parts in a fixture. I re-zeroed the machine and ran another 20+ parts with no problem. What ever is going on seems to be intermittent. Other seem to be having similar issues, so I don't think it's just us. Ross Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ADVERTISEMENT ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Yahoo! Groups Links a.. To visit your group on the web, go to: b.. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: mach1mach2cnc-unsubscribe@... c.. Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links a.. To visit your group on the web, go to: b.. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: mach1mach2cnc-unsubscribe@... c.. Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. |
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Re: Mach2 Missed steps but not????
Do you have servos or steppers ?I have 1000ozin steppers with Gecko 201's running 70 volts. I was only running at 60IPM, so I know the machijne wasn't even close to stalling. In fact, at 60IPM, it will bend the gantry if one of the lead screws stops. I was also using a V cutter. I was carving some oak shelf fronts with a nice design. The second part messed up. Every one after that was fine. I passed it off as a just one of those things that happens now and then, but now that I see others having similar issues, I think we may have a bug. I may seach my hard drives and see if I can find the V1.9 download. Not even sure if I still have it. That version ran flawlessly, but did not have some of the new CV and plasma features. Ross |
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Re: Mach2 Missed steps but not????
Do you have servos or steppers ?
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Olivier. -----Message d'origine-----
De : rrc62_03782 [mailto:rrc62@...] Envoy茅 : jeudi 11 mars 2004 20:05 脌 : mach1mach2cnc@... Objet : [mach1mach2cnc] Re: Mach2 Missed steps but not???? "Real mach2 problem or mechanical resonance.... ?? Anyone with similar strange gain steps on Z axis, - direction ?" I had a problem with the Z two days ago. I lost steps in the other direction. At the end of the program, the tool was about .050 higher than it should have been. I was running identical parts in a fixture. I re-zeroed the machine and ran another 20+ parts with no problem. What ever is going on seems to be intermittent. Other seem to be having similar issues, so I don't think it's just us. Ross Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ADVERTISEMENT ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Yahoo! Groups Links a.. To visit your group on the web, go to: b.. To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: mach1mach2cnc-unsubscribe@... c.. Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] |
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Re: Mach2 Missed steps but not????
Very interesting. In my font engraving, i gained steps progressively from
left to right, the first letters are ok, but progressively the others are too deep, and the last ones are 1 mm too deep. I cannot say if the Z gain appeared after each Y move. (the moves are too complex in a font engraving to see this. I don't understand how a mechanical resonance could cause this, because my miller is very strong, the cutted material is only plastic, and there is no vibrations (V cutter). Perhaps there is a small timing problem causing this. It should be interesting to rise the step signal timing higher than the default setting of 1 us, and or the direction signal higher than 0 us. Are you using gecko with stepers ? or servos ? Olivier. |
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Re: Mach2 Skipping over M09
Robin Szemeti
On Thursday 11 March 2004 15:55, tig415 wrote:
This has happened through many versions of Mach not justThanks for raisin this problem. I'm sure that as soon as we can peel Art off his sun lounger, we can get him cooking on this one, something to spice up his day. -- RapidCut CNC Technology CNC Plasma Cutter |
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Re: Mach2 Missed steps but not????
"Real mach2 problem or mechanical resonance.... ?? Anyone with similar
strange gain steps on Z axis, - direction ?" I had a problem with the Z two days ago. I lost steps in the other direction. At the end of the program, the tool was about .050 higher than it should have been. I was running identical parts in a fixture. I re-zeroed the machine and ran another 20+ parts with no problem. What ever is going on seems to be intermittent. Other seem to be having similar issues, so I don't think it's just us. Ross |
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Re: Servo only moving one way
Robin Szemeti
On Thursday 11 March 2004 14:08, INDECO wrote:
Hello all,I assume you have a test meter? OK, so ... monitor the 'direction' input pin of your servo drive ... can you see it change state when you use the arrow keys left/right? answer: yes the problem lies within the drive, try swapping your X and Y drives over, see if the problem stays with the drive. Maybe you have damaged the opto-isolator on the input. answer: no ok, so you need to figure out why not .. trace it back to the parallel port, examine the pin you think it is coming out of wiht your test meter, does it change state? check the ports and pins config in Mach2 .. have you assigned more than one thing to that pin?? -- RapidCut CNC Technology CNC Plasma Cutter |
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