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We have been having a strange problem with our y-axis for a little while now, and we're not sure what is causing it. We have 2 1200oz motors driving the y-axis (one on each side), and every once in...

I played some more with this over the weekend. I don't think it's scew lead error, because then it would be innacurate on both small and large parts, not one or the other (right?).

We finally...

Our machine has 2 1200oz motors driving the y-axis (one on each side), and we have Gecko G202 drivers for both motors (same setup on the x-axis, except only 1 motor and gecko driver). We have a few...

Thanks for replying. We just recently changed the configuration to use 2 1200oz motors for the y-axis (before it used only one 1200oz motor in the middle, and we had a steel bar that ran along the...

We recently changed the configuration of our machine (added another motor to the y-axis etc...) and tuned the machine, and just finished our first test cut.

I have programmed in some 1 1/8"...

We're having this same problem, did you (or anyone else) ever get this figured out? It's very frustrating that we can either have it tuned for small parts or large parts, but not both (it seems like...

I've used fairly green poplar with good results (http://exactworks.com/portfolio/main.php?g2_view=core.ShowItem&g2_itemId=75). Got that board from lowes and I worried about it turning out since the...

I saw that site, but the article I linked too above (from makezine) has a comment from someone who ordered those plans and he says they are terrible and ripped him off. The plans also show as "Out...

Saw this article on makezine.com:

http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2006/08/rubberband_machine_gun.html

That would be a pretty fun project, but looks pretty complex. Does anyone here have...

Your plans look great, it makes me really excited to start making parts for a new machine. Do you have any sort of assembly instructions? I'm sure we can figure it out, but I thought I would ask...

Just like to echo the interest in DFX plans. We have been thinking about building a smaller machine for small projects (have a lot of left over parts from our first machine), and I think your design...

it makes sense that the pic2pic program was linked to on imagecarve.com, I should have checked there.

I was also wondering what everyones experience was with stain and sanding after a piece like...

Does anyone know where to get that pic to pic program mentioned in step #4? I can't seem to find it.

Wow, this looks really great. Does anyone have a good source for some of that free cutting brass? I had never heard of that before but think it would be fun to use.

Hello,

Just wanted to get everyones opinion on which one of these programs is better:

ImageCarve (http://imagecarve.com/)
V-Carve (http://www.vectric.com/)

Do these programs not really do...

Thanks for the tips guys, we did end up ordering a gecko board (the g201) which we'll use to power the 1200 oz/in motor and then keep the other 3 200 oz/in motors powered by the hobby cnc board (we...

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We recently got some of the axis's finished on our final machine, and have realized that our motors and drive board are underpowered (we originally had the hobbycnc.com board with their 200...

We're almost done with our CNC machine (all major purchases are made, just need to finish constructing). I got to thinking that it would be nice to also have this machine do laser cutting as well...

Just thought I would let everyone know that I was told about igus.com from another group, and they look to be the most reasonable (about $60 for bearing with pillowblock).

I'm not trying to track...

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I am trying to find the best deal on 1" linear bearings (open). McMaster-Carr has them for about $75 (item number 6374K24), but I gotta think there's a better deal out there. I need 4 of...

Just in case anyone else has this trouble in the future, we finally got it working last night. Funny enough, all it took was reading the Mach2 manual :) You can see a copy of it at...

Thanks Dave. I posted here before while I was waiting for my yahoo membership to clear. I've moved it over to that support medium now. I will try that file tonight.

Joe2000che,

I don't think I understand your reply, what setup windows? Like I said, I'm sure it's something very simple, the board was tested to be working, I am just drawing a blank as I'm...

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Hopefully this is the correct thread for this, I just recently purchased the HobbyCNC board and motor kit, and last night we tried hooking it up to the computer (via the supplied parallel...

I believe the NCI file is the g-code, but seems to be in a different format than the example file that comes with mach2.

Thanks for the suggestions on Mach2, I have downloaded the trial version and have been playing around with it, but I can't seem to get it to load an NCI file from MasterCam. turkgeltz, you mentioned...

I am ready to start building my cnc machine, I have experiance with mastercam and would really like to use this. I am unsure of how to interface this with the machine though. Anyone have any...