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Hi Bill,

I appreciate the help.

I might have been a little quick in this post fro help. After about an hour looking through old posts I think I have the information need to wire this thing...

I am in the process of reinstalling my older PRT Alpha with a Yaskawa VFD and HSD spindle but I misplaced the wiring diagram for the Yaskawa.

I left the wires connected in the controller so I...

I agree with you D, the line isn't really bad code; just a poor choice of words on my part. Call it the line of code in which the problem occurs.

Anyway, the line of code is supposed to move the...

Does anyone have an idea what may be causing this problem?
I’m using Aspire to generate the tool pats to cut a piece using the indexer; something I’ve done a number of times before with other...

Bill,

I RSVP'd to an earlier e-mail from someone at ShopBot but I thought I'd confirm here as well.

The e-mail said you would not be there this year. Hope everything is Ok.

If not this...

I've been controling my ShopBot on a dedicated PC (only runs the device and not connected to the net) running XP, v3.5.10 of the control software and v140 of the Control Box firmware. Right now...

Actually Brady, I'm in the process of building one for my mill and plan to build another for my ShopBot when the second part of the article comes out. I was going to try and use a single device for...

I just thought I’d let everyone know that the summer 2010 issue of Digital Machinist magazine has a great article on building a DIY remote control pendant for under $100. The article is generally...

Gabe,

I've gone to the last few So Calif Camps and I'm interested in attending this one too. Is there a registration process?

Tom

Is there software other than Artcam that can be used to wrap/unwrap images? Does anyone know if Aplha Cam has this faeture?

Tom

Bill,

That fix seems to have taken care of the problem. I ran the same profile with the new Indexer routine and it came out exactly as drawn. Imagine that.

Thanks for the quick help.
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Jack,

The zeroing may be causing problems of it's own but the big problem that I see from the program code is that the Z axis is being driven way past it's limit. If I read that last M5 command...

Bill,

I'm sorry to say that it was the program with the fix. The Text Wrap worked fine after the fix so I decided to get familiar with the other routines and came up with this problem.

BTW,...

An interesting point, my Z is zeroed at the top of the piece but zeroing at the base seems more logical. Of course I'd have to be careful about the gaps and home position but I understnd that.
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The Aspire file is greater than 50K so I can't upload it.

The indexer is parallel to the Y Axis. The shape is pretty much as you see in the profile. The axis in the profile is a slice along the Y axis.

I have a profile that I created in Aspire



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and using the routine in the Indexer utility to turn to a profile I entered this data

Ok, I tried the virtual tool on another PC (Vista 32 bit system), same problem. I still only get question marks instead of dimensions when I input data in the "Calculate Template Size" under the...

Tim,

I thought he worked for ShopBot, my mistake. Even though he did clarify I thought I'd pose the question here. Vectric usually watches this part of the forum and they usually have the...

I read a thread posted by ShopBot that Aspire does not work with 64 bit systems. I've been using Aspire v2 on a 64 bit system for quite a while with no problem. Is anyone aware of any limitations...

Thanks guys, I really appreciate the help. It makes a bit more sense now but still a ways to go before I understand all the concepts.

I created files to turn a blank round and one for polygon...

I’m in the process of installing my new indexer and while that’s under way I thought I’d get familiar with just how this thing works. So, having read a lot of the material and many of the posts I...

Jon,

I like your idea of the dowel/bit registration and I might use that on some applications. I only have a 48" table and for many applications I can't afford that extra inch or so for the...

Woops, I forgot the pic, sorry.


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I appreciate everyone’s comments about the enhancements and for those of you who asked, here’s more detail on the pneumatic registration.

I tried a number of other options – including a hinge...