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by Marius Gouws
Tue, Sep 09 2008, 3:16AM
Forum: Thermwood 3-Axis Machinery
Topic: Boring hinge holes on outside sourced doors
Replies: 9
Views: 7197

Re: Boring hinge holes on outside sourced doors

Morning Neville I agree, drilling the holes on a hinge drill machine is far quicker. But if you only have one machine and a client of yours using a different hinge than your machine is set-up, then you want maybe to drill the client doors on the cnc machine rather to go and setup the hinge drill and...
by Marius Gouws
Mon, Jul 28 2008, 7:30AM
Forum: Thermwood 3-Axis Machinery
Topic: "X Axis Out of Bounds"
Replies: 7
Views: 7395

Re: "X Axis Out of Bounds"

Good morning I hope I can help you with some useful information. Your code read something like this: SET ZSHIFT=18.0000+WASTEBOARD [ADJFIXOFF, 1, -2440.0001] [ADJFIXOFF, 2, -2050.0001] G52L3 If you stand behind you table facing the gantry then your Home of the machine is on you left hand side and yo...
by Marius Gouws
Mon, Jul 28 2008, 5:49AM
Forum: Thermwood 3-Axis Machinery
Topic: Pull Hole Hardware Association
Replies: 6
Views: 4821

Re: Pull Hole Hardware Association

Good morning A while ago we did a job and all the doors where PVC pressed doors so we did not make them ourselves, but the hole house had finger pulls, and that we had to cut-out. What I did , I go to E-cabinets made a part that looks and is just as big as the finger pull with the cut-out. Go to con...
by Marius Gouws
Tue, Jul 15 2008, 4:06AM
Forum: Thermwood 3-Axis Machinery
Topic: Where are my reindeer?!?
Replies: 4
Views: 4273

Re: Where are my reindeer?!?

Good morning
I like the letter block program and want to use, But our machine is in metric, now what? Must i just insert a G70 somewhere?
What about the wasteboard thickness?
Will the program run with our machine? (Winxp, C40)
thanks
by Marius Gouws
Tue, Jul 15 2008, 1:06AM
Forum: Thermwood 3-Axis Machinery
Topic: PROFILE MODELER
Replies: 12
Views: 8789

Re: PROFILE MODELER

SOUTH AFRICA 30 NEW ZEALAND 28 GO BOKKE! Does anybody here use Bobcad v21 or v22 with success with a Thermwood machine? Will it be a better substitute to PM? I have Bobcad v21 but never took the time to learn it. They are selling V22(it includes Bobart X) pro now for $500, but I want to know for su...
by Marius Gouws
Fri, Jul 11 2008, 1:35AM
Forum: Thermwood 3-Axis Machinery
Topic: PROFILE MODELER
Replies: 12
Views: 8789

PROFILE MODELER

Good morning from a chilly South Africa I have created a part with Ecabinets, write .twd file and load it in PM. I verify all regions with success, then write the code, all well. But if you take a look at the code it read something like this ".....region 2 bottom........G00 X789 Y18...G00 Z10 G...
by Marius Gouws
Thu, Jun 26 2008, 1:23AM
Forum: Thermwood 3-Axis Machinery
Topic: CN - Added sheet - label orientation problem
Replies: 8
Views: 6769

Re: CN - Added sheet - label orientation problem

The same thing happen to me over and over untill I have figure it out. If I load a full sheet I put my labels on the top left hand corner, then everything works right(the edging and the flip-ops). But if I add a sheet or sheets, and stick the label on the top left corner then it show the edging on t...
by Marius Gouws
Wed, Mar 05 2008, 4:10AM
Forum: Thermwood 3-Axis Machinery
Topic: Table (axis 1) stutter
Replies: 8
Views: 8082

Re: Table (axis 1) stutter

Morning Jason Tried to send you an e-mail but it came back undelivered. Our machine number is : C40-482. I hope this is the number you are looking for. Another things is that our control version (THM version) is 6.0.8.2. How to we upgrade to version 6.1.0.3 or higher, the reason for this is that I w...
by Marius Gouws
Mon, Mar 03 2008, 10:03AM
Forum: Thermwood 3-Axis Machinery
Topic: Table (axis 1) stutter
Replies: 8
Views: 8082

Re: Table (axis 1) stutter

Jason, Good afternoon I have taken photos of what out machine do, or so to speak does wrong. You can see it with the naked eye, like in the photos, when it cut dados horizontal across the table and it is then when the table has to move over that little bit, then it seems to be spring loaded it jumps...
by Marius Gouws
Wed, Feb 20 2008, 9:16AM
Forum: Thermwood 3-Axis Machinery
Topic: Table (axis 1) stutter
Replies: 8
Views: 8082

Re: Table (axis 1) stutter

hello Daniel
We all here use eCabinets to create the TWD files. You talk about "lash" and that I must look to see how much. How do i do that? (for example on table axis, to see how lash it have) Our machine will be 2 years old in August.
Thankx for the reply
by Marius Gouws
Wed, Feb 20 2008, 8:27AM
Forum: Thermwood 3-Axis Machinery
Topic: Table (axis 1) stutter
Replies: 8
Views: 8082

Table (axis 1) stutter

Good afternoon I have a problem with our machine and that is when it accelerate and de-accelerate the table stutter. When we cut something with a small arc it looks like i have cut it with a jigsaw (freehand). Now I have stumble apon something in the manual. If you do a Ctrl + T then I get the follo...
by Marius Gouws
Thu, Aug 16 2007, 11:52AM
Forum: Thermwood 3-Axis Machinery
Topic: USB problem
Replies: 1
Views: 2846

USB problem

The motherboard inside our machine had died 2 days ago, so they send us a new one from Johannesburg and i replace it with the new now (identical). I fire up the control and everything works perfect, except the two usb ports on the side does not work. In device manager under usb controller i get the ...
by Marius Gouws
Thu, Apr 12 2007, 2:03AM
Forum: Thermwood 3-Axis Machinery
Topic: AFL search code
Replies: 2
Views: 3078

AFL search code

Good morning Damm website, this is the second time I write this message, keeps on logging me out, and when I hit submit takes me to loggin screen. Want to know if you can code in AFL to open a .txt or .cnc file and search for a target string like \"Locate MDF\" and have the program return ...
by Marius Gouws
Tue, Mar 06 2007, 11:56PM
Forum: Thermwood 3-Axis Machinery
Topic: DXF
Replies: 12
Views: 9496

DXF

Good morning What i basiclly trying to do is cut out some letters and numbers on the CNC machine for our company name for outside. Now if you use the text \"editor\" and design the letters in AutoCad it simply does not work at all (even after i set up all the right layer name and thickness...
by Marius Gouws
Tue, Mar 06 2007, 9:10AM
Forum: Thermwood 3-Axis Machinery
Topic: DXF
Replies: 12
Views: 9496

DXF

Good afternoon
I did a drawing with Autocad R14 that I want to cut out, but Control Nesting does not want to see the outlines that I have made with Sphere's and Splines, is that normal or is it just me?

Thanks