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Help needed converting Novamill to Mach
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Re: Help needed converting Novamill to Mach
HI,THANKS FOR HELP ,I AGREE AND YOU ARE 100% CORRECT .angel-tech wrote:Mach3 is a pretty good replacement controller for the old Denford dos based controllers, and it's very cheap to change over to mach3.
It gives you a windows based interface like VR milling but no more usefull than the Denford software.
If you have a working Denford system then it would be sensible to stay with this, as it's already setup for the machine.
Mach3 takes a fair bit of time and skill to get setup correctly on your machine, and there are some "in the know" tricks to get Mach3 functional.
Re: Help needed converting Novamill to Mach
hi ,thanks to all of you try to help
you are 100% right the only small things is diffrent beetween mach3 and vr 2.3
today I find out by changing small things like G00,G0 G1, G3 NOW PROGRAM WORK WITH VR2.3 NOVA MILLWHICH BEFORE DID NOT , I DID NOT KNOW THAT
BEFORE I TRY BUT NOTING I DID NOT KNOW WHY WORKING WITH MACH BUT NOT WORKING WITH MY MACHINE NOW BY CHANGING SMALL G COD HAHA ALL MY PROGRAM WORK WITH NOVA AS WELL.
SO YOU ARE RIGHT I DO NOT NEED MACH3 AT LIST FOR NOW.
THANKS
SAM :
you are 100% right the only small things is diffrent beetween mach3 and vr 2.3
today I find out by changing small things like G00,G0 G1, G3 NOW PROGRAM WORK WITH VR2.3 NOVA MILLWHICH BEFORE DID NOT , I DID NOT KNOW THAT
BEFORE I TRY BUT NOTING I DID NOT KNOW WHY WORKING WITH MACH BUT NOT WORKING WITH MY MACHINE NOW BY CHANGING SMALL G COD HAHA ALL MY PROGRAM WORK WITH NOVA AS WELL.
SO YOU ARE RIGHT I DO NOT NEED MACH3 AT LIST FOR NOW.
THANKS
SAM :
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- Hardware/Software: My Novamill, bought in Nov 11 without electronics, is now up and running under Mach3 with a home-build control box. I'm very pleased with the machine, only project so far is correcting a cheap small machine vice originally bought for a vertical slide to use on the machine - not a right-angle in it when bought!