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Stay safe Al.

Take care,

Jos

OK Steve,

Good to hear that the probe is working now.
Nice surprise to find the cut off wires.

I have look at a couple of your video's and I must say that you had a lot of work to do on that...

Did you try in #9 Jog menu , the PROBEPT mode? Something happening there?
It might be that there is no automatic probing in the operating program.

I found the manuals here;...

I think that the deviations in the position of the socket stems from the way the mounting thread is started.

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Mine came with this SK30 adapter.

If the in-line Z is not OK, I would...

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Here is the picture. I cropped it a bit for clarity.
Can you post a pic of your MP11 ?

Jos

I finished making an adapter for my MP11.

Some pictures;
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The shank is 16mm for an ER25 collet.

Yes, this is correct.

The drawing of the plug on the russian drawing is correct too.
It is the view from looking at the front.

I double checked it and it works.
Reversing the + $ - 24V...

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The connector has a half moon shape. that is the top.
the pin top left is #1 , top right is #2.
Bottom right is #3 , bottom left is #4.

The wiring diagram in the manual is good, just...

The MP11 probe arrived today.

Looking good!
I did a quick test and all worked well. Great .

Now I have to make an adapter with a straight shank of 15mm to have it fit in my ER35 collet.
And...

Interesting thread !!

I have a Wildhorse probe too and I just bought a MP11 expected to arrive the end of the week.
Th most annoying with the Wildhorse is bad contacts.

I am fed up with it....

It is definitely the backlash control.

As I thought it could be the Z stepper that introduced the fault I set Z to zero backlash and tried again.
No good, still the stall on G43.

So I disabled...

The problem at the G43 is, that this line of code tells the Z-axis to move.
The Z-axis is driven by a hefty NEMA43 stepper motor. So I imagine that this motor produces a big spike that possible is...

Hi guys,

I think that I have found what is going on.

Since a couple of weeks I changed the Smoothstepper for an UC100 USB to PP.
This to activate the Mach3 backlash control.

Then the...

I already did that.
But I made a mistake , the problem is line N07 the G43 code.
N07 G00 G43 H01 Z25.4 M08
Did not work. The G43 still makes the head crawl downwards.

I'll try Mactec54 's code...

Hello all,
Lately I have a problem with a line of code with the G43.
Line N06

N04 T01 M06
N05 S1000 M03
N06 G90 G54 X-38. Y22.
N07 G43 H01 Z25.4 M08

When my mill hits N06 the downward...

After one more go at it I disvovered that I tried to mill a 2mm oblong slot with a 3mm endmill.

BobCam did not protest but just did not compute a path.

It works now like I wanted it.

Sorry...

I posted a video on my Youtube channel;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fjo0ZhK5Lmw

Regards,
Jos

Solved !!
I had a good look at the Icon bar in Simulation.
To the right is the large Machine Housing icon that is grayed out with my machine selected.
Selecting the BC_4x_Mill machine shows this...

Thanks !!
I was looking for this to build my SX3 mill for simulation in BobCad.

Have a look at this, search YouTube;

F1 Video 2_ Indexing.mp4
V26 4 Axis Rotary Tool Path.mp4

It is in V24 or V26 version but you have an idea how to do it.

I have done some testing in V3...

Hi Everyone,

I just did a brand new drawing in SW & V3.

Used the settings Al DePoalo recommended and that worked fine.
No more collisions in Lathe Simulation.

A simple solution to something...

OK Al,

On with Collision Detection seems to do it.
A quick check returned the right movement of the anvil.
No collisions anymore.

I'll start a new drawing to be sure that no leftovers from...

I still cannot make a decent groove in BobCam V3.

I have a solution;
In SW 2012 and V2 the Groove Feature is good. No problem.
I saved the Groove Feature as Feature Groove.bcot

This I...

SeanDa,

I find V2 better at the moment then V3 !

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aq-Kobc8StA

V3 will not do the Anvil Groove correctly in Simulation Pro.
An imported file from SW2012 and...

Hi,
I posted a movie on Youtube;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2F3nMwv-kw

This is done in SW 2014 and Bobcam V3.

However , it works alright in SW2012 and V2.
If I import the V2 file into...

I really need some help.

I am making a simple grooved rod to turn some Oscilloscope feet.

I use SW2012 and V2 and SW2014 with V3.

The turning rough to get to the desired diameter works, sort...

I did those a long time ago.

This is the only complete file I have left in my , sloppy, archives.

Feel free to alter it.
I know that the drawing might not be accurate, it was a time consuming...

Hello Rick,

I have a Sieg SX3 mill.
Converted to ballsscrew and operated with Mach3.
I run MachStandardMill (from Calypsoventures), this has excellent probing and toolchange facilities.
Latest...

Thanks Rick

I see what you did.

Too bad that there are only few video's for BobCam V3.
All is concentrated on V25 & V26.

Jos

Could you post the finished file for this.
I would like to study this.

Thanks,

Jos
Holland