[chris59]

I am new at CNC, and just converted my Smithy 1200 LTD to Mach3. I use MasterCam 9.1 to generate my G-code. Learning it was painful, so to help others I put together an article describing the process. I tried to be as brief as possible (challenge for MC9), and added as many screen shots as reasonable. I compiled it with emphasis on smaller machines running Mach3 and similar controllers. Find it on my server at:

http://www.novalab.org/mc/mastercam_tutorial.pdf

Before you criticize me too much, remember I am an electrical engineer and not a machinist . I hope you find it useful, and am looking forward to any feedback.

Regards,

Chris :banana:

[tiroler537]

Hi Chris...the link aint going nowhere please fix it...
As for me ,am a licensed MC user ( Lathe only) seriously....Mill just playing with it.
I can see a good reason to make a good post for the Mach3 controller.
I dont have any Hobby Cnc here at home ( not enough time) but am curious about them.

[chris59]

Works for me. "Try save as"... I tried attaching it, but it is too large for this forum.

Chris

[ger21]

Save as works, but it won't let you open it in IE?

[chris59]

I just looked why you can't open the link in IE. Here is an excerpt from the server error log:

[Tue Nov 22 21:35:49 2005] shpd: access to .../novalab.org/.../mc/mastercam_tutorial.pdf failed for 71.131.45.29, reason: external link to non-page refused from http://www.cnczone.com/forums/showthread.php?t=15081

So, you will have to "Save As", as the forum will nit let you link to PDF file directly.

Has anyone been able to get this file?

Chris :banana:

[toneV8]

Yes.
Open in Mozila Firefox with PDF Download and Save As.

[kentavv]

The tutorial (and a lot of other good stuff) can now be found at:

http://cnc.novalab.org/mach_files.htm