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I am planning on just manually turning the the spindle on and off but I am concerned with how finicky the vfd can be sometimes. What is the easiest way to tell mach that the spindle is running or...

I have a 3 axis machine that has servos with encoders running geckos and mach 3 on a pentium III machine running at 2.4 ghz.

My hardest working axis will experience accumulative error overtime...

how do you reverse motor direction in mach 3? In mach 2 there is a simple option for motor reversal but I cant find it in mach 3. Any help?

I have 320 drives I am wiring up. I have shielded 2 pair wire for the encoders. Black and red are shielded together and white and green are shielded together. do I wire enc - and chanel B in the same...

Hello All, I'm looking for cam software that is able to mill with simultaneous 4 axis motion. specifically what im looking for is a cam program that will look at a solid free flowing shape and use...

I do a lot of this type of work (indexing is what its called) and from you description there is only a couple of possibilites. The most likely is this, your "homing of the axis" is in fact not truely...

see my obviously unbiased review of the next engine scanner I posted 4 months ago versus what I just posted today. Here is the title of the post under laser digitizing. ""New" 3D Scanner from...

I tentatively disagree with your assessment of the nextengine scanner. It is true that the early, and even current release of the scanner + software was full of bugs. but they are, to their credit,...

well what I can say about handling large models in scan studios from experience is that you will always run into a bug. for example no more than a couple of minutes ago I was trying to run a blend on...

well I went ahead and ordered the nextengine scanner. I thought that if it wasnt usefull I could send it back and get a full refund less shipping and handling. I recieved it about a month ago. It was...

read the part about Importing an Existing Mesh

read this for information regarding rhino and meshes. They may be adding mesh capabilities in their new 4.0 release and that would be great. but for now the 3.0 doesnt do much of anything...

The trial version of rhino is supposed to have 20 saves but mine keepsreseting every 24 hours or so back to 20 saves. I may have saved 5 times and be down to 15 saves left and when I come back the...

true you can import the mesh in to your cad program im not saying that it wouldnt do that. The problem is once you have it in your cad program without the revers engineering sofware like Rapid Form...

I think that price is a little deceptive. If it came with its own software to tweek/repair holes and convert to nurbs it would be a true break through. BUt it doesnt instead you have to purchase the...

So I see above I have a couple of opinions that a makita/ porter cable router, even the 3/14 hp supposable "industrial" routers are going to start having major problems at around 120 hours? Thats...

in my opinion thats not very much time

Ive only had it for 8 months and use it about 8 hour a week. I just cut wood with it. When I first start it up it will cut fine for about 10 to 15 minutes. Then it will start going crazy. DO you...

Thanks for your reply. It is a variable speed router. And no it didnt always do this. So far not very impressed with makita.

I have a home built cnc router with a 2 1/2 hp Makita router. One of those ones thats suppose to be real quiet. The problem it has been devoloping is that the rpm goes up and down instead of...

I found out what you have to do is go curve>curvefromobject>>duplicate edge
then select each edge and then press enter, then hit join curve while the new curves are still highlighted and that will...

OK, When I start making parts for the nasa space shuttle I'll give you guys a call.
Until then I'll have to look for some more resonable methods of digitizing

what are the cheaper digitizing options you spoke about? If you've used them are they any good? What type of $ would one be looking at? Im really in need of some digitizing work, but I have $...

I was thinking of purchasing one of the roland LPX-250 3D laser scanning sytems It says it has an envelope of 10" wide by 16" tall that it can digitize. I was wondering if anybody had any experience...

you can do what they are doing with a arm digitizer like a microscribe. The problem is it wont be very acurate and prone to humane error. I.E. lifting the probe off the surface and not even realizing...

shouldnt have been so hasty that # is the diameter of the ball nut not the bearings. Those would be big bearings! oh well. wish I knew what size of bearings he was using It would make things a lot...

here's somebody on ebay selling the 5/8 diameter 5tpi ballscrews like you can get from mcmaster carr only hes selling them with oversized balls in the ballnut....

hi I have a round column mill drill and wondering if high pressure air would be a sufficient cooler/chip remover. I'm not real excited about mist oils and flood coolant although one may have to do...

hello All, I read alot here on the zone about people who make there own end blocks for their screws Its usually for the 5/8 in ball screws that they turn down to fit there taperbearing { dont know...

hi, Ok do you change that in the post processor editor in visual mill?