I had the same behaviour, and it turned out to be a real pita to find. I run CV mode with backlash compensation. At one stage I had backlash set about 0.05mm...
Thanks Art for your efforts. i will test asap to see if there are any reported errors. Perhaps my win2000 system behaves differently from your XP one ? i...
Art it's a very good idea. I'm ready to do a remote session with PC anywhere (win2000 don't have embeded remote control according to my knowledge). but i'm not...
David Thanks for your detailed points. You are of course right that the user should be encouraged to minimise risk (to self and work) by avoiding being too...
Hugh, Snips, inserts follow... ... Yes. Exactly right. ... Okay, I've read the previous responses, but let's see if I can make this simpler... 1) An offset is...
Edmund, We're STILL in the "jigs and fixtures era". They've just become easier to make and use, now that we have CNC... Ballendo ... mechanical device ... ...
... Yep. It's in the FAQ's (coming soon to a website "near" you<G>), and I sure hope that they will save many folks many hours. They've taken enough of...
John,DG, I know your posts are in jest. But... In fairness to the "user", a machine may not have brains but it definitely has "personality". And sometimes, as...
Antonio, Most CAD packages will make this information available to you as entity details... Depending upon which CAD you're using, you should be able to set up...
John, It's partly a "CNC standard practice" thing, and partly that G92 has quirks which show up in stange and dangerous ways. Always has, which is why fixture...
Throw some g92's at it... And, Are you stopping the program midstream? And have you set your congfiguration to ACTUALLY turn OFF the home switches, or just...
Phew!, You know Steve, we have our differences from time to time, but I kinda like you<G> It's nice to know that I'm not alone on this one. It's been driving ...
... Yes, there still seems to be some "motor tuning" anomalys. perhaps in conjunction with different modes of movement (means the jog vs. G1 "thing" that comes...
Yes, Win2k has remote desktop, you just have to make sure it gets installed (it's not terribly obvious when setting up win2k, and not even a default option in...
I've gotten my motors tuned to what I believe were correct values but after running a while had to take my Z axis assembly apart so I had to go through motor...
Mike: From what I know, you r motor steps should all be the same, and should NEVER change. The easiest way I know of to test for steps/inch is to maove...
I've been using it for about a week now, and am going to purchase it. I like it! Andy Wander Verrex Corporation ... From: Derek [mailto:tig416@...] ...
Yes I calculated my steps/inch to 10000 which is extremely close on the DTI (within a couple thou). I guess I may be running into the effects of backlash...
... wrote: <snip> ... thousands- ... and ... safe. ... Which proposition I whole-heartedly endorse - indeed are we not supposed to be unique as a species by...
For about 3-4 months, I have been using Mach2 to control my DC motor/speed control, using a combination of Outputs 1 and 2, the PWM output, and Peter Homann's...
I recently installed 6.03, and while checking the Ports & Pins pages, I found that, even though they are not selected on the Output Signals Page, both Charge...
Mine too-except that I DO have a setting in Mach2 that tells it how long a delay there is for motor spin up/down. I think what this does is wait for that long...
... wrote: <snip> It would be ... as between ... up anyone ... Andy Yes - I think that most AC inverter drives allow this by doing the ramp down/ramp up using...
... is the SAME (functionally, and internally) as if the position of the axes when the button is pressed is the exact location where the "home" switches "would...
... then we can talk Art into building the control around it. :-) Hmm, I kinda like that idea... ;) Art www.artofcnc.ca ... From: "David Gabrielsen"...
... is mapped by the active coordinate systems onto the machine coordinates by a series of additions. As addition is commutative -- (a + b) always equivalent...
