how to load liscense

[j king]

Well the long journey is longer..lol..
 
 I have been working on this project for 3 years..I changed jobs 3 years ago and it requires 100% travel so I have limited time to mess with my mill.
  I bought a BP boss and replaced everything..New steppers, drives, added ac drive,wiring and even paint. : ) I have zero cnc experience.
  I just wanted to learn cnc and think its cool. I have been manual machining for 23 years.I have a nicely equipped shop
  Well, this past winter when I was home and had free time to dig into this and found out my hard drive died..Dooh! I didnt back up anything or record all my mach settings..Double Dooh!  

  Fast forward to present..New computer..Got my the settings for motors and pins set..Ready to mess around now. I sent for my wizard license again..I forgot I need to get my Mach 3 license sent also so need to do that.Now to my question...I put the license emailed  to me and put it on a memory stick and then transferred it to my cnc puter.I just put it into the mach folder..I doesnt seem like it works. I am sure I need to do more or will it not work until I get the full mach license installed?  Thanks  Jim

[Hood]

I have just tried it and it would seem that you need a registered version of Mach. Contact license@machsupport.com and give them your details and they should be able to look back and send you a new licence.


Hood

[rrc1962]

If it's seeing the license file, under Help->About you will see your name...or the name it was licensed under.  If you're not seeing that, you could have a corrupt license file.

[AndrewM]

Make sure the License file is named correctly. Should be Mach1Lic.dat if it has anything after the .dat just rename it to the appropriate file name and it will work.

[Hood]

He doesnt have the Mach Licence yet, its the NFS one he has.
Hood

[AndrewM]

My mistake, I misread your post. Thought you said you already got both licenses and the Mach3 License wouldn't work.

[j king]

 I believe I bought the license from Keling when I bought the steppers and drives. Not sure if I have a proof of purchase..I did find the receipt for the wizards and received it again.

  I sent a note to  license@machsupport.com . Hope they can help.

  On the positive side I got the estop remote button working this time around ! I may even try to get the spindle to be controlled by mach also...I dont know what to do with it then but its fun to put in a wizard and watch the mill do its thing..Better than T.V.!  lol

                     thanks    Jim

[Hood]

Scott should be able to trace things if you know the name or number the licence was under.
Hood

[j king]

Well I have the mach license installed but the addons license wont install or work.  I tried several times..When I open mach 3 and click "help" it shows my name in the top box so I guess it is fully licensed. I cant get the wizards to work..If I try to enter a number the box it will change but as soon as I move to another box it changes back to the original set number. Any ideas???  Thanks   Jim

[Hood]

Are you pressing enter on your keyboard after you type the numbers in the DRO's?
Hood