MACH 3 Mill display performance quirks

[mxtras]

Hey guys -

I have been running my mill with MACH 3 mill manually and in MDI for several weeks (the operation of the control is awesome, BTW). Just last night I wanted to generate and run a relatively small, simple, 2D program. So I began to play with the DXF to G-code coverter thingy and I am a bit flustered.



The display area on the DXF load screen doesn't show anything most of the time. This troubled me for a while before I realized that it just doesn't work right - the data is there, it just doesn't show up. That's fine - I can live with that. It killed about 1.5 hours for me, but no big deal.

1) Is this blank display normal? Is this display a little quirky or is it me?

2) Is there any way to alter the headers and footers the processor places in the TAP file?

3) Can line numbers be added automatically?

4) What's the low-down on how to establish cutting order? Is this only done by using different layers? Do you have to manually edit the code to get this thing to cut what you want, how you want and when you want?

Comments, criticism, hate, love, suggestions - all are welcome. And thanks in advance.



Scott

[ger21]

Start using LazyCAM, included with the latest releases. The old .dxf importer is being phased out.

As for your questions, from what I've seen, the display is usually blank, at least whenever I've tried it.

2. Not sure
3. Don't think so
4. yes, layers

LazyCAM has a lot more control over most of things you mentioned, I believe.

[mxtras]

I will give it a shot. I haven't looked at LazyCam since the day it was announced 'ready' for download - it did not work too well. I will have another look.

Thanks for the answers, Gerry.

Scott