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Here it is. Its in land desktop 2004, its still autocad though.

I'm not sure if this has been covered but, is the mesh macro supposed to delete the latitude segments on a dish? When running the macro on a dish the latitude dissapears. I've been drawing 3dpoly's...

Yeah, I was trippin the switches by hand too. Everything works now, it homes and it trips for limit. Got a little scared at first because I wasn't lookin at the z when homing, it tripped though, even...

Great, I haven't homed yet with motors on. I tried with motors off and I forget which sequence the axis will home in. I may have tripped the wrong switch manualy and if saw no home I tripped the...

Hey everyone, Should this work on a 3-axis using Xylotex?:

2 switches in series each axis for home/limit, individual pins total 3 for 3axis.
Home is limit=yes.
Disable all limit switches in I/o....

Hey guys, I went ahead and redrew the fender strat body. Ace convert was having problems converting it. Can you say machine go boom!(no limit switches). I should have checked the code beforehand....

I'd like a router table but for now I'll just see what I can do with the mill drill. Glad I have one to make parts for the router later on. So far I seem to like the mdf material for the cnc routers.

Briefly looked at hobbithouse, looks good. Also trying to find a good "cheap" source for wood. I'll most likely find it here locally. I'm also throwing around different ideas to machine a guitar body...

Thanks for the input. Sounds like many woods to choose from for necks & bodies. Nice website.

Hey everyone, I Just wanted to start a thread to help people, like myself, find good sources for wood blanks. Also, I'm curious as to what are the more common woods to use for guitar bodies and...

Thanks, had a brief look at the site. nice site. I'll keep lookin through.

specs: harbor freight round column benchtop mill. What would be a good way to make sure that the x-axis ballscrew is running parallel and concentric to the x-axis ways? I could run a test indicator...

I'm pretty sure it won't matter. I'm not really familiar with configing servos in the .ini but its probably basically the same. Just need the specs on your motors. degree per step , step count per...

Just need to go into turbo cnc choose axis set-up and motion setup and enter info. ex. start speed, distance per step of motor, take into consideration if running microstep. Save and reload .ini file

I have a 33686. I could have paid around 400 more for the geared head version. I paid 7 or 800 for mine on sale. changing belts isn't terrible. Theres also a dovetail column out there but not sure...

It sounds like ENA# could be pulled low on board by using a switch. Maybe one for each axis or individual switches. What would be the difference/reason in using ENA# vs. SLEEP mode? Not sure exactly...

What kind of fans you got there?

Thanks guys, fan is cooling the xylotec, also vref is set. I actually have 4.0 I'm just not using it yet. I had planned on it eventually. So the new changes in tcnc may help, great. Last night I...

Yeah I was thinkin on similar terms when Iput the system together, low speed. Actually I was mainly jogging the machine to drill some holes. I think it was set at 10 ipm. I'll use your calc. for...

Thanks ger, so instead of calculating screw lead per rev. I should have been going off of thread per inch? Mcmaster specs claim 13/64 screw lead. 13/64 movement per revolution. Is this wrong in...

I was cutting a part yesterday and failed to doublecheck as I progressed. It turns out that my part is off in every direction by 30 to 60 thous. Could someone list causes for losing steps? My...

AH, I understand. I guess now we have definitely cleared up this topic. Thanks again

From reading all the posts the only argument is if the switch can be an on/off type? (non momentary) sounds like it could be.

Thanks for your patience, I'm enjoying learning.

thats right, its a 450 mhz. mystery box.

Actually I tore down the original switch. Its not functionable anymore. So if I understand, I can use the toggle switch to connect to 2 of the 4 wires possibly? And to find out which 2 to use would...

Thanks AL, I was told that the switches used for pc power made contact and then released not like a regular switch. So I see I could use this toggle switch? How should it be wired? Basically the...

Ok this is what I did. My pc power switch went out so I decided to go with a regular toggle switch and ended up tripping my breaker. I would now like to test the power supply on computer. Without...

Hey balsa, I have similar machine fr. H.F. Did you find any slopp in the spindle sleeve when tramming. Mine has about 2-thous. slopp when locking the spindle sleeve. If so it would seem like the...

THANKS GUYS,
I ended up shimming with some feeler gage I already had. Discovered that when the spindle sleeve was locked it through it off 2 thous. When doing cnc work it won't be locked, so...