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CamBam help (General usage) / Re: Exclusion zones possible while pocketing ?
« on: April 04, 2024, 23:32:43 pm »
Could you create a Region with islands where your clamps are?
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CamBam help (General usage) / Re: Coolant activation
« on: March 23, 2024, 20:50:05 pm »
Young man I have already forgotten more than you know! Unfortunately.
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CamBam help (General usage) / Coolant activation
« on: March 23, 2024, 13:19:11 pm »
How would add the M7 and M9 for coolant activation automatically without editing G-code?
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CamBam help (General usage) / Re: Plugins on Windows 7
« on: February 11, 2024, 01:26:45 am »
Thanks,
I’ll have try that. We have 2 VMCs, a Prototrak and a CNC but this little machine will still be useful as we do lots of prototyping.
I’ll have try that. We have 2 VMCs, a Prototrak and a CNC but this little machine will still be useful as we do lots of prototyping.
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CamBam help (General usage) / Plugins on Windows 7
« on: February 05, 2024, 12:34:02 pm »
Our little CNC machine uses Mach 3 with Smooth Stepper on a Windows 7 laptop. I installed CamBam on the laptop and it works fine except for plugins. On startup it complains about CAS issues with .NET 4. Any ideas how to fix this? Not anxious to upgrade Windows as I didn't set this computer up in first place and it runs the machine just fine.
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CamBam help (General usage) / Re: May 2024 be a year of renewal and reward!
« on: January 28, 2024, 17:15:34 pm »Starting kind rough. An old friend passed away and I got covid at the funeral, and gave it to a coworker and my wife. We are all recovering.
Found out yesterday that nearly everyone at the funeral got covid! Bad stuff.
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CamBam help (General usage) / Re: May 2024 be a year of renewal and reward!
« on: January 11, 2024, 21:56:33 pm »
Starting kind rough. An old friend passed away and I got covid at the funeral, and gave it to a coworker and my wife. We are all recovering.
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CamBam help (General usage) / Re: Waterline Finish 3D MOP - Again
« on: October 20, 2023, 22:00:06 pm »
Kelly,
This work is when a really badass computer makes a difference. In the case of actual cutting about the best you can do is minimize air cutting and have a machine with really high rapids. My machine cuts well at 100 ipm and rapids at 300ipm but commercial machines often rapid at 700-2000 ipm.
This work is when a really badass computer makes a difference. In the case of actual cutting about the best you can do is minimize air cutting and have a machine with really high rapids. My machine cuts well at 100 ipm and rapids at 300ipm but commercial machines often rapid at 700-2000 ipm.
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Problem dxf files etc... / Re: Prolem joining polyine
« on: October 20, 2023, 21:40:43 pm »
When you see lines that don’t end at other lines it usually indicates someone is not using snaps, which is absolutely important. Most cad programs have a fillet function. I use it all the time with a zero radius because it will trim both lines to the exact intersection point.
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CamBam plus feedback / Re: Hey Andy, What can we do?
« on: October 14, 2023, 01:42:31 am »
I’d happily pay a yearly maintenance fee to keep CamBam alive and relevant. I realized the other day I been using it for 10 years. Its kind of like the Leatherman tool in my pocket.
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Members Machines / Re: Please be more careful than I was!
« on: October 05, 2023, 21:40:22 pm »
Lloyd,
Sorry to hear about your accident. My dad did it too, as well as one of my best friends. I cut the tip of my middle finger off on a fire siren. It was sensitive for almost ten years and finally grew back entirely.
Sorry to hear about your accident. My dad did it too, as well as one of my best friends. I cut the tip of my middle finger off on a fire siren. It was sensitive for almost ten years and finally grew back entirely.
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CamBam help (General usage) / Re: SOLVED - Motion command target is invalid on xPro V5 controller
« on: September 04, 2023, 20:34:53 pm »
The problem isn’t that you only two digits. This problem happens on virtually all CNCs on arcs when the ends and center are too far off at two decimals. I used to get drawings from customers with 2 decimal dimensions that I couldn’t program from. I had to beg a lot of them to go 4 decimals because they thought it would add cost by specifying unneeded precision. It cost a lot more when I couldn’t finish a program !
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CamBam help (General usage) / Re: Changing pocket dimensions
« on: June 25, 2023, 21:58:16 pm »
Hope I can still CNC at 82, I'll be 70 in two weeks.
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CamBam help (General usage) / Re: Help in constructing post-processor macro
« on: November 03, 2022, 16:51:24 pm »
Why wouldn’t you just move the Z an amount so small it has no effect on the laser focus. 0.0001” or 0.001mm
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CamBam Shop Feedback / Re: Hurricane predicted to hit here!
« on: September 28, 2022, 01:10:51 am »
Lloyd,
Good luck to you!
Good luck to you!