NOVAMILL ATC Circa 2002 Customer recently downloaded VR CNC Miling V. 2.31. Software and manufacturing runs fine. One small problem is 1) run a part it works perfect. 2) run the 3-D simulation it runs perfect. 3) try to have the 3-D simulation run at the same time the part is running get an error me...

You may want to schedule a service call with an educational reseller if you feel too difficult to accomplish on your own. Go to this website to view/download an exploded view of the mill. http://www.sherline.com/CNCmillEX.pdf The Brass Insert Nut is slipping in the carriage that is causing the probl...

Customer asks:

How do you replace the Brass Insert Nut that is slipping in the carriage of my micromill?

9pin to 9pin Here is the wiring on the 9to9 pin female test cable: 1-empty 1-empty 6-white 6-green 2-blue 2-brown 7-black 7-purple 3-brown 3-blue 8-purple 8-black 4-green 4-white 9-empty 9-empty 5-yellow 5-yellow Shield to metal case Shield to metal case The leads on pins 2 & 3 crossover 4 & 6 cross...

Please advise on a test cable for testing machines directly from the control card to the computer. Thank you.

please provide school information and serial numbers to our Denford usa office --- sales@denford.com

Customer checked fuses and determined that Fuse F2 was blown. He replaced and machine is up and running.

Customer writes in...
Wires to E-Stop switch were disconnected by student. I reconnected the 2 orange wires to the E-Stop Switch but now machine will not power--- HELP!

Customer getting message External Exception E06D7363 when using VRMilling and when NOT connected to machine. This rules out a problem with the USB connection. Check that computer does not have DEEP FREEZE installed. If so, uninstall DEEP FREEZE. This should solve your problems. Below is some informa...

Please identify your control card from this PDF link http://www.denfordata.com/projectimages/machine_upgrade_identification_guide.pdf It appears from the exterior of the machine you may have a standard micromill using DOS based control software. We no longer sell or support the DOS based control sof...

Customer writes in .... Hello, Since my machine doesnt have a serial number that i can see i included two photos. Can you tell me if this machine will run on your windows software? I notice the screen on the Denford rs232 communicator goes pink when i shut off the machine so i believe it has communi...

I need help in getting a post file that will run on our Light Machines educational mill. the Larken Camtool post does not work...although the G-code looks vary similar...the light machines will not read how the tooling information is written. I have attached a sample engraving file of a snowflake fr...

If the cutting tool is flexing on the Roughing pass, you may need use a larger diameter tool. You will need 4 separate .fnc files for each car, Roughing RHS, Finish RHS, Roughing LHS & Finish LHS. You will need to have 2 Work Offsets created, Roughing & Finishing, X & Y would be the same but the Z w...

Customer writes back .....
Thanks a lot again for your help. I found that I need to watch a little better when transferring files to the Quick CAM. I have ran 3 cars this morning. Everything is up and running fine right now. (knock on wood)

Asked customer to send in his stl and fnc and we found that customer was skipping a step in the QC3D tutorial, the step where you “Set Cut Depth”, the “Z Cut Depth” needs to be set to “Centre”. Customer was setting to “Bottom” and that is why he was experiencing the Z plunging into the balsa block. ...

Customer writes in…. After designing several cars in ProDekstop and going through QC3D, sometimes the Z goes too deep into the block when manufacturing on the Compact 1000. I reset the offsets, but it seems like the offsets are not being saved in the software. I uninstalled and reinstalled VR CNC Mi...

Customer writes back...... I figured workbench out. The workbench software assigns the 'node' number to the controller. The turn was set to node 1. I reset it to node 2 then easy upgrader and turning software worked just fine. I'm back in business. FYI...we have had a number of power surges recently...

We can run your part virtually in our control software, VR CNC Milling v. 5** , not sure of the compatibility of our control software running your particular machine.

Customer writes - I am interested in software ( to generate G code) to run a Romaxx CNC router. (romaxx.com) I teach in a middle school, so the program would have to be simple enough for the students to use. Currently I am using PC Draft as my CAD program. I am sending you an attachment with a sampl...

Your billet resolution may be set too low. you can set the billet grid size by clicking on the 3D window (this enabled the 3D setup menu at the top). Then select the menu "3D setup" > "Options. Then change the 3D grid size (mm) to say 0.2. This will give better results, but may be slower to rotate t...