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@moldcore, are you happy with the sbc upgrade? Do you feel it was worth the money?

Moldcore, Are you using a usb floppy emulator? I know sportybob offers one on the SBC upgrade and I am looking at going to it when I get the chance to send him my system.

On another note, I...

I have never been able to get the RS232 port to communicate with my computer. Always had to use the floppies

I have never tried to enter them by hand. I will have to search and see if I even have the paper documents for them. That being said, I would still need to get the floppy working so I can load some...

Long story short. We sold our house a few years ago and moved to a new one. I just now got my new shop built and my equipment installed. My milltronics Partner 1e Centurion 5 has been a work horse...

Anyone remember the steps to setup the cmos and get back to the bios? My machine has been powered off for a few years now. I finally got my new garage built and power ran. Fired up the machine and...

I have a 1993 Agiecut 100 wire edm machine. I purchased this unit a little over 1.5 yrs ago. However, I ran into some problems and was unable to get my shop finished and now I have no need for it. ...

Andre,

Thanks for that info. I changed the post and the file went from 356k down to 2.2k. That's over 90% reduction

Can dolphin output in Arcs instead of line code. I was trying to do single point thread milling and the generated Gcode was so large that I could not fit it on the machine and I had to DNC it. The...

Brian L Thanks for the info. I will give that a try and see if I can get it working. I think allenmullis is correct in the "look ahead" causing it to slow down because the feedrate being outputted...

I have a Centurion V. Is there a way to do single point thread milling in conversational programming? My cam program creates such a large file that I have to DNC the file and it seems to limit the...

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I cannot seem to get dolphin to engrave properly. I want to do some simple fonts and when I write the word "FIRST" the "I" and "R" are so close together that you can't really see the "I" also a...

The battery on my simdisk went bad on a Centurion V. I replaced the battery but I am not getting voltage throughout the board. Can anyone confirm the path of the positive side of the battery? It...

I went to turn my machine on yesterday to do some machining. When I hit the "reset" button then the home button, the machine homed in all axis except the X. It gave an error and shut the servos...

That worked perfectly. Thanks, I don't know why I didn't think of going .001" smaller to test with

Ok, well the problem must be my tool then because I cannot get it to work. This is the tool I'm using

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So is this something that I am going to have to do every time I want to chamfer something? I was using this circle as something simple to try out first, especially since I have found myself wanting...

When I change the lead to .25" I get an error saying the chamfer tool dimensions are inconsistent

It is a 90 degree tool which is 45 degree per side. I tried doing it both ways using 90 degree and then I changed it to 45 degree and still couldn't get it to work properly

I have been trying to get the chamfering setup to work but have been unsuccessful. I have a .5" diameter endmill with a 45 degree chamfer on it. I have been trying to put a .030" chamfer around a...

Thanks for the replies.

I'm using a 50hz pulse signal to run the servo. Basically I have a pot that sends a 0-5v signal to the servo controller to tell it what kind of rpm I'm asking for. The board measures the rpm from a...

I have a little project that I am working on. This is not a cnc related need. I need a servo to control a butterfly shaft in a throttle body. I need something small and preferably sealed to...

Yes, I have the original file for the post processor that they emailed me.

It is a Milltronics Partner 1 with a Cent 5 controller. The post processor was a custom one written by dolphin. It had been working fine until recently. However I noticed even on the simulation in...

I'm not sure if something has happend to my post processor or if I'm overlooking something in dolphin but I have two problems.

First: When I do an area clear, dolphin does not use the z-feed rate...

See, I knew it was something stupid that I was overlooking. Thanks again Andre

Ok, So I'm no expert with Dolphin but I have gotten to the point where I am pretty good and confident in what it can do. That being said, I ran into a problem doing a very simple shape. When the...

I have tried everything I can think of. Different angles, different swathe passes, etc. I still get full cutter engagement at some point. I would really like to find a way around this. It would...