Tony Brazier
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Hi have no idea where the RNRmotion.dll file is, the software is not my game, will ask my son when he comes round on 29th if still required.
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If you could would be great. Windows tries to hide such files. When you do find it just right click and bring up extra info.
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Half the stuff in Mach you won't need, if you get your gcode sorted properly.
Its pins, which I guess you've done, and steps, and then acceleration / deceleration curves and you're pretty much good to go. All the tool offsets etc can be set when you generate the code.
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Ps the CV stuff is poor on Mach, but you'll need to either exact stop (slow) or work out what level of CV stuff is tolerable for your work.
Maybe set it to exact stop to start with and accept the speed issue and then setup the constant velocity later when you know the machine better?
Maybe set it to exact stop to start with and accept the speed issue and then setup the constant velocity later when you know the machine better?
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Although I have a couple of Sieg bench top Mills and one of their KX-3 machines You may be mixing me up with the Late John Stevenson who had a lot of involvement along with ARC Eurotrade in the development of the Sieg CNC machines as well as the manual mills. He had a lot better understanding of al things Mach as well as the hardware side of things.
Unless the X1 has had a speed upgrade I would doubt you will be wanting to use 1000mm/min feed rates very much as being quite alight weight machine it is not going to be able to cope with the resulting chip loads that will result from a slow spindle and fast feeds. I would set the maximum rapid speeds in Mach as 1000mm/min and then work out your feeds based on cutter and material.
As Julian says once the machine has been set up you don't really need to do much in Mach except use it to jog the work and spindle for setting up for a cut and then running the actual code. Best option is to use CAM software with a post processor that will spit out the g-code for Mach3mill. Something like Fusion360 is plenty good enough for hobby use even with the limitations it now has. That;s what I use and never actual write any G-code. Though if it is just a hole you want then the Mach Wizards could be used.
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Although I have a couple of Sieg bench top Mills and one of their KX-3 machines You may be mixing me up with the Late John Stevenson who had a lot of involvement along with ARC Eurotrade in the development of the Sieg CNC machines as well as the manual mills. He had a lot better understanding of al things Mach as well as the hardware side of things.
Unless the X1 has had a speed upgrade I would doubt you will be wanting to use 1000mm/min feed rates very much as being quite alight weight machine it is not going to be able to cope with the resulting chip loads that will result from a slow spindle and fast feeds. I would set the maximum rapid speeds in Mach as 1000mm/min and then work out your feeds based on cutter and material.
As Julian says once the machine has been set up you don't really need to do much in Mach except use it to jog the work and spindle for setting up for a cut and then running the actual code. Best option is to use CAM software with a post processor that will spit out the g-code for Mach3mill. Something like Fusion360 is plenty good enough for hobby use even with the limitations it now has. That;s what I use and never actual write any G-code. Though if it is just a hole you want then the Mach Wizards could be used.
J
I have no intention of using 1000mm feed rates. Just can't work out why the motors sound nice at that speed but not at say 400.
I downloaded a bit of G code and tried it in the Russian software and it was fine. In Mach3 the feed rate was painfully slow. Could barely see the motors turning.
How do you configure Mach 3 and how do you change the feed rate?
The G-code should have the feed rate in it. typicaly F*** where the *** is the rate.
If you find a path is running slower than the machine could take then you can just click on the feed rate over ride and knock it up in 10% increments. This is also something you will learn to get to quickly when you find things are going too fast!
If you find a path is running slower than the machine could take then you can just click on the feed rate over ride and knock it up in 10% increments. This is also something you will learn to get to quickly when you find things are going too fast!
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Mach (as I mentioned before) has curves for the motor acceleration and deceleration and top speed.
No matter what the speed in your code is, it can not exceed these settings. Find the settings and check them. There's graphs. If you see them your in the right place.
Additionally, as I'm almost sure i mentioned before, there's two modes. Exact stop and constant velocity. If your CV error tolerance is set real low then you will, pretty much, be running in exact stop anyway, which, again, will over ride anything in the gcode.
Do check these two points. It may all be fine but unless you have looked and confirmed, there's really little point in looking elsewhere just yet.
No matter what the speed in your code is, it can not exceed these settings. Find the settings and check them. There's graphs. If you see them your in the right place.
Additionally, as I'm almost sure i mentioned before, there's two modes. Exact stop and constant velocity. If your CV error tolerance is set real low then you will, pretty much, be running in exact stop anyway, which, again, will over ride anything in the gcode.
Do check these two points. It may all be fine but unless you have looked and confirmed, there's really little point in looking elsewhere just yet.
