Help needed converting Novamill to Mach

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Re: Help needed converting Novamill to Mach

Post by Denford Admin » Fri 20 Jan , 2012 10:27 am

The update to 2.31 is free
If you wanted to update to VR5 milling and a new USB Controller then it's around the £1000 mark

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Re: Help needed converting Novamill to Mach

Post by poryan » Fri 20 Jan , 2012 10:51 am

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.
HI,THANKS FOR HELP ,I AGREE AND YOU ARE 100% CORRECT .

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Re: Help needed converting Novamill to Mach

Post by poryan » Sat 21 Jan , 2012 15:09 pm

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 :

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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!

Re: Help needed converting Novamill to Mach

Post by JohnHaine » Mon 06 Feb , 2012 20:45 pm

Phew!!

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