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OH, I guarantee we likely are NOT running on certified systems lol. My personal PC runs it like a boss, but, the job I left had a Dell station that sucked wind lol.

OH, yes, you can do the same thing and program it to exit the bore. I don't remember offhand how to set that up in lathe, I only used it for lathe a few times. I will pull up my old program and take...

I really think that the issues stem mostly from a host of issues, mostly related to the OS, maybe some other things. . I am fairly quick now, but, the first few parts were abysmally slow. I am...

Use the drill/peck functionality and it can do it. You need to set your non-cutting moves to a plane slightly above the surface.

It was usually taking about 1-2 weeks straight. It took me 4 weeks on the last part because of an instability issue with NX10 (worst decision ever was to upgrade btw), but actual up time on the...

Ames, I think I figured this out pretty well after trial and error and some voltage testing with it for a while.. May also put a filter on the voltage output from the Hypertherm to smooth it out a...

Ok, well, upon much research, I bought a used plasmacam dhc-1 that was just sitting around in a friends shop. I NEED THE DHC2 UPGRADE, because the

And, honestly, its made a few parts, I learned...

Ok, since no one seems to make a bt35 1.5" 18tpi boring head adapter.

So, I found an MT4 boring head adapter, then found a BT35-MT4 adapter.

My problem is, how do I keep the MT4 boring head...

want to do something simple in Gibbs, and I am having a hell of a time.. Gibbs is awesome if you want it to do everything nearly automatic, but, unless you are programming for the 4 axis monster, it...

eh, I doubt its a gibbs issue.. Send it to them in IGES, an early version, and try that.. They may have to redo the surfaces in Gibbs, why is that an issue?

Yep, just a bit tricky... Had to use G92 in the middle of the tool change to set the zero, then, G92 again to set the offset.

Don't know why I needed to go G92 again, I tried to move it to an...

I will try that, but, from what I gather, the machine is always natively in MM, and thats what it switches to when you perform an origin ie G27 or G28. I will give it a try and see what happens.

Originally I had the g49 on the second line. As far as switching from inches to metric and back again, only way I can get an accurate return to zero every time since the machine is in metric when you...

Ok, screw this lol..

The machine *will* offset the tool length correctly, *however*, it will ignore any subsequent G92 once a tool length offset compensation is in effect. I *can* perform a G92...

Eh, just found out my machine doesn't recognize G53.. Oh what fun this is! Esp. since it says in one manual it *does*, just like it also says it recognizes G54 So far, I have gotten G27 *and* G28 to...

Well, this old piece wants G27 or else lol.. It needs that origin light to come on, or no tool change. And if you send it to Z0.0, it still will not allow it to toolchange. As a matter of fact, if...

All,

Been having some issues.. Got the tool change to work pretty well, however..

It seems as if after the G27 moves the Z axis to home position and all other toolchange related items are...

Ok, here is the code I am using.. It does the tool change, it works, but it doesn't recog the H value in the offset parameter value?

G49 clears all tool offsets

G27 Z0.0 T05 M06 raises the z...

I agree with the above.. I found that actually getting rid of the coolant helped on stainless too..

Basically it was explained to me that when machining stainless the heat has to go somewhere and...

Hey Micah its Rob.. I can help you out if I can get some time to swing by.

Hopefully you got it all sorted out already, but, I have some very quick and easy ways to convert from a scan to a...

Hey man, it ended up being the Spindle encoder. Be prepared to spend $300.. Its not cheap.. Ow.

It works well now, no issues..

Ok, I am following the instructions associated with the chipset I got from a guy in either NZ or AUS, I forget..

Anyway, I am in between work on it and I want to upgrade and install the DNC...

Thanks man!

And, yes, I bought the little bugger, fired up first go so we are ready to finally make some $$$.. We get to pay bills another month..

Crazy thing is, I dunno how anyone else is...

yep, doesn't really matter since where we are at right now is pretty much hosed as far as business is concerned.

I had to wait for the $$$ to show up to fix the thing.. Guy just walked in with a...

Spindle is DC..

the alarm 8 isn't at the spindle controller, it is at the panel...

on the PIL it lights up the 2 in the 8421 output..

Well, so far, we pretty much know the sensor is toast...

1) what control is on this machine

Its a 3m

2) how do you know that its missing the "tacho" signal? You have a scope?

Yep. Got a really nice Fluke that does it all.. Saw some irregularity in...

If I could find the complete schematic of the in and out of this thing, or if I could see what the signals look like I could make something that would replace this..

Anybody got schemos of this...

Wow, the sensor is that sensitive that touching it off on the gear will destroy it??!?!

Incredible.. Well, when I first took it off to look at it, it had a rub mark on it before I even tried to...

Ok, have an older spindle encoder, the type that is on top of the motor under a little cover, and is basically a toothed gear with a pickup that reads the teeth as they go by..

Now, it originally...

AHA! That is what I was forgetting!!

the "Set Path" function was invoked the first time, and the second time I did not do it..

Now, next question becomes, *must* I have tool paths that go the...