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stops on this line
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If I draw a simple plate with holes mach 3 works fine , but, a DXF file downloaded from here, when I process it and open it in Mach3 and cycle start it run to the start of the cut and stops, the Z numbers are still actively running.
Any help would be great.
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looks like a mill post processor.... z action but no m3....

how are you starting your torch?

thc?

what cam software are you using
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robertspark wrote: Sat Sep 28, 2019 11:53 am looks like a mill post processor.... z action but no m3....

how are you starting your torch?

thc?

what cam software are you using
What I’m trying to do is create cut files on my brothers laptop at my house because everything on it is licensed, when I load them in Mach3 it pops up and says controller not hooked up that’s because the plasma table Is at his house about 15 miles away from my house, when the box popped up, I kinda of took it that it wasn’t going to run the program, but, I saw on I think it was midi screen that I could run a simulation mode, but, because the reset bottom won’t reset, then I can’t run it in simulation mode.
Thanks for the reply
Ps what program can I use to test the tap file
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Thanks guys
The files I created on the CNC laptop, worked on the machine.
We are using a pen in place of the torch. And it is drawing the Tap files perfectly, which tells me we still Do not have the plunge hight, rapid, metal thickness etc,. set up right so far.
Thanks again for your help
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Update
My brother put the torch back In and cut this.
Thanks for theDXF file
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Probably not applicable but my TM driver software does similar. When I first open it I can select either "Connect" or "Don't Connect". Don't connect allows me to simulate cut here at home even without a machine, hopefully you got that part straightened out too.

Nice move on your brothers part, appears to have cut well. Most welcome for the file. :Like
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Plasron,

within about 5 seconds of looking at that gcode I could see what was happening.

The gcode did not actually stop and was still running but I calculated that one gcode command will take over 7 minutes to complete. Thus you think the gcode stopped. Yep just tested it in my cnc controller and that's exactly what happened.
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