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fast and light, yes and no. If you can build it fast and heavy, great. I understand this, but built mine heavy duty anyways and couldn't be happier. I am however running dual 960oz in steppers at very close to their peak power with 50volts and 6amps each and another 960 for my X. I have 850 IPM Rapi...

For the plotter, i think i would disconnect the air to my scribe and clamp a sharpie to the mount, lol, instant large plotter. :) If i could get a laser that would cut 1/8" or even 1/16" steel or aluminum, and maybe some engraving, that would be nice. I have not really looked into how expe...

The lower gearing could be part of the problem, lots of people repurpose rotary tables that have worm gears, and thats too much reduction. As far as the CV on A axis, it could be, but i would be surprised. It does not appear that the CV is not working on mine, but i could be fooled. I had not consid...

excellent I'm glad you liked it, I would actually be interested in what all you had to do with the laser cuz that's not something I've done yet and would be kind of useful also how powerful and how thick can you cut or is it just for engravimg?

Thanks, im glad you like it. The square tube support did take me awhile to think up. Several nights while laying in bed instead of sleeping. I didn't like the methods that most systems used on a stationary chuck setup like mine. I wanted something that could support it underneath and allow cutting o...

Here is the video showing the operation of and some drawing and setup with sheetcam and mach 3.

http://youtu.be/d2fscbLNtGU

Viewers, Let me know if it was informational and beneficial for you making things easier to understand or do at all using sheetcam.

Brian Wolfe
www.wolfesmetalfabrication.com

Les, that video explaining a few things and showing the benefit of a rotary axis, that I mentioned i would put together for all your assistance, is now complete and being processed on my computer. It ended up being 20 mins long! Then i will upload it to YouTube and eventually my website. I am not a ...

Not to bring back an old dead thread, but i have been using g28.1 for z referencing for a long time and it has worked great. I understand both of your guys point of views, although, now i have a reason for maybe changing if possible and keeping the machine coordinates (z in particular) to an exact n...

It is said that you don't have to give up when problem arises because in every problem, there is a solution. Yes i agree, this goes for little problems and projects as well as the big ones that seem impossible. Usually, passion, determination, willingness to learn and ambition will get you there. A...

Wouldn't this undo what i already changed? I modified it so that it does not activate the M8 Scribe solenoid every time it lifts because it takes too much time, not 100% consistent on lowering time, cycles the solenoid alot, and i can eliminate the start and end divot if it is already running and ju...

Ok worked with it a little more while i was not in a rush. Here is what i have so far function Reference() firstRef = false local matZ = sc.QueryDll(qryCHKEND, endY, dllId) if (toolClass == "MarkerTool" or tool> 99) then post.Text(" M09\n") end if (refHome) then post.ModalText(&q...

Excellent, seems to solved that problem, although one line of the gcode is missing needs to be there. N0010 (Filename: 1.5 square tube Chair test.tap) N0020 (Post processor: PlasmaRotary Mach3 swapped axes.scpost) N0030 (Date: 12/11/2014) N0040 G20 (Units: Inches) N0050 F1 N0060 G53 G90 G40 N0070 G0...

If im using the development version of sheetcam does it need to go under it instead of the TNG version? Im assuming so, and i did (saving a backup just in case) and it solved that problem, although now it posts.. N0010 (Filename: 1.5 square tube Chair test.tap) N0020 (Post processor: PlasmaRotary Ma...

I am experimenting with the x and y post after scribe offset under pen down, and for some reason currentY (posts as x) reads X2.5386, and endY reads X2.5265 when it was x -0.4689 at reference. Thats what i would expect it to be, so im not sure were it changed. If i use current instead of end (what i...

I think i traced the problem, but not sure how to fix it. I am thinking it has to be in the pen down posting the x and y after the scribe offset. function OnPenDown() Anything to do with this???-------------------- sc.QueryDll(qryRAPIDY, endY, dllId) -- local matZ = sc.QueryDll(qryGETZ, 0, dllId) lo...