Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: cnc/copy mill teach

Hi Steve:

Try downloading MAch3, it will share your computer with Mach2. So you can
just run it for the Teach Wizard if you like. The teach wizard even
displayes a toolpath of the Gcode as you get your points. Let me know if you
run into any confusion, its pretty easy to use though, you just jog to the
first point, then hit fedto, then the next point, repeat. If its an arc, you
tell it and it will request you go to another point on the arc. The
direction of the arc and such is automatically figured out, the toolpath
will show you the trigger or whatever your tracing as you go.. Its in the
Wizards button on the main screen in Mach3... No license required to run
it, so you can generate 1000 lines or so for each part...

Thanks,
Art
www.artofcnc.ca

----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Haushahn" <haushahn@...>
To: <CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2005 12:41 PM
Subject: Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: cnc/copy mill teach


>
> Art or others.
> I was the original poster with the question on use of cnc to rapidly
> pickup coordinates on an existing parts..In my case and easy to imagine
> for sake of the question--- I have gun parts in front of me -
> hammer,trigger, lever etc..I can sit down and measure everything and type
> all the G-codes for making reasonable duplicates of those parts , I been
> doing that for years..Now I got this ole mill upgraded, running off a
> personal computer running Mach2..I'd like to learn to do the work more
> easily..I didnt find the Brian Barker tracing tecnique but Art said it
> was in Mach3 and I am using Mach2....I been looking at -in Mach2- Adler's
> '2D with Linking'...Anybody here use that Wizard? Can it be used with jog
> to move around the 2 dimensions of a part and pick up coordinates? I cant
> get jog to work with it.
> Steven
>
> Actually, In Mach3 you move the tool to a spot on the part, then hit
> the
> type of move to get there, Line or arc, then move to another spot and
> repeat
> the process. If you need an arc, you simply move to a spot along the arc,
> then to the end indicating this as you go. The Gcode file is made from
> the
> moves you make to get there. This is not really digitizing, but kinda
> like
> CIM, where you define the part as you go and the end result is a GCode
> file,
> not a point file. For getting a 2d part into GCode, its much easier to do
> it
> with this tracing technique. Brian Barker wrote the script code and its
> very
> easy to do in the tracing wizard..
>
> Sorry if Im misunderstanding, I thought the requirement here was more
> one
> of creating a GCode file rather than a series of points on the profile.
>
> Thanks,
> Art
> www.artofcnc.ca
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