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Mach Discussion => General Mach Discussion => Topic started by: ynneb on October 18, 2005, 11:32:51 PM

Title: Welcome to the official Mach 2/3/4 support forum.
Post by: ynneb on October 18, 2005, 11:32:51 PM: This forum is dedicated to Mach 2/3/4 support.

The new url is now www.machsupport.com/forum

I have backed up the database from the beta forum but have descided that It might be an idea to start off fresh again.

I will over time merge some of the topics that had special interest in the previous forum.

This will hopefully be the last time you will need to relog in. I am sorry for this hassle.

There is currently only one section in this forum. Other sections will be added over time and upon general consensus
Title: Re: Welcome to the official Mach 2/3/4 support forum.
Post by: Bengt on October 20, 2005, 01:51:50 AM: Hi Mach users,

Looking forward to see what we together can do in here.

Take care out there

Bengt
Title: Re: Welcome to the official Mach 2/3/4 support forum.
Post by: Brian Barker on October 22, 2005, 12:04:36 PM: SWEET, I hope this is going to put everything in one place! ;D

Well back to work :-[
Brian
Title: Re: Welcome to the official Mach 2/3/4 support forum.
Post by: turmite on October 23, 2005, 10:25:30 PM: Brian......get back to work! ;D Just in case you have not received the thanks you deserve.....thanks! I have not started to use Mach3 yet but I have been watching the wizards develop and am anticipating when Mach4 will be ready. That is when I plan my change over....unless of course I change sooner! ;D

Mike

ps My user handle on the other forum and the yahoo was/is guzakaka but decided to change.
Title: Re: Welcome to the official Mach 2/3/4 support forum.
Post by: santiniuk on October 24, 2005, 03:17:48 AM: Excellent news !

Well done on persevering with the forum. Hopefully now it's under the offical site things should take off.

Cheers.
Title: Re: Welcome to the official Mach 2/3/4 support forum.
Post by: Bloy2005 on October 26, 2005, 03:27:01 AM: Hi there!

I'm finally in......not sure what I did...but after a couple days trying....

Just thought I'd try out the "attachment" feature.....

My almost complete router...... Almost.... almost complete...
Title: Re: Welcome to the official Mach 2/3/4 support forum.
Post by: Leeway on October 26, 2005, 10:28:33 AM: Thanks Benny and all that helped with this. Thanks also for testing the attach feature. Looks like it works VERY well. Thats sharp. I look forward to this new site and the look of Art's web site is great. Lots of new stuff there. Art, you da man. Yeah, you too Benny. ;)
Title: Re: Welcome to the official Mach 2/3/4 support forum.
Post by: R Rogers on October 26, 2005, 08:05:50 PM: Benny, Art

Thanks for getting this new forum up and running. Will be much better than the old yahoo setup.

[The little JET mill I'm just finishing up for a customer][My shop needs cleaning, baaaadly!]

Ron
Title: Re: Welcome to the official Mach 2/3/4 support forum.
Post by: R Rogers on October 26, 2005, 08:08:03 PM: Another pic of it

Thanks, Ron
Title: Re: Welcome to the official Mach 2/3/4 support forum.
Post by: ynneb on October 27, 2005, 03:25:14 AM: Hey guys, why dont you put these pictures and more into the photo gallery?
My two pictures are kinda lonley.

Ron, your mill reminds me of an industrial food mixer :)
Title: Re: Welcome to the official Mach 2/3/4 support forum.
Post by: Leeway on October 27, 2005, 09:20:49 AM: Where's the Gallery, Benny?
Title: Re: Welcome to the official Mach 2/3/4 support forum.
Post by: ynneb on October 27, 2005, 06:46:52 PM: Quote from: Leeway on October 27, 2005, 09:20:49 AM
Where's the Gallery, Benny?
http://machsupport.com/Coppermine/index.php
You can find a link to it in the floating menu also.

I have fixed up the regeter link in it. Sadly I dont know how to intergrate it into this forum so you will need to regester for it if up want to upload images.
Title: Re: Welcome to the official Mach 2/3/4 support forum.
Post by: Cuongle on December 16, 2010, 03:51:51 PM: Quote from: ynneb on October 18, 2005, 11:32:51 PM
This forum is dedicated to Mach 2/3/4 support.

The new url is now www.machsupport.com/forum

I have backed up the database from the beta forum but have descided that It might be an idea to start off fresh again.

I will over time merge some of the topics that had special interest in the previous forum.

This will hopefully be the last time you will need to relog in. I am sorry for this hassle.

There is currently only one section in this forum. Other sections will be added over time and upon general consensus
Title: Re: Welcome to the official Mach 2/3/4 support forum.
Post by: Cuongle on December 16, 2010, 03:53:01 PM: I am a new user of Mach 3. Could Mach 3 control Servo Motor ?
Title: Re: Welcome to the official Mach 2/3/4 support forum.
Post by: Hood on December 16, 2010, 04:22:39 PM: Yes, if your drives accept Step/Dir then you can use the parallel port but speed may be limited due to the ports max frequency, it will depend on your encoder count. If you need more speed than the PP can give then you can use one of the external motion controllers such as the SmoothStepper.
If your drives are analogue only then you can still use Mach but you would need something like the DSPMC, Galil or Kflop/Kanalog .

Hood
Title: Re: Welcome to the official Mach 2/3/4 support forum.
Post by: Cuongle on December 16, 2010, 06:07:17 PM: Thanks. I used the Galil control board. How can I interface between Galil board and software with Mach3 ? Does it have the instructions of interface in manual ?l
Title: Re: Welcome to the official Mach 2/3/4 support forum.
Post by: Hood on December 16, 2010, 06:36:47 PM: Not all Galil boards can be used but there is a section of this forum dedicated to Galil which will tell you models that its possible to use, just post a question there if you cant find it telling them the model you have and asking if it will work. There should be links to manuals there as well.
Hood
Title: Re: Welcome to the official Mach 2/3/4 support forum.
Post by: Cuongle on December 16, 2010, 07:13:42 PM: Hello Hood, If not all Galil board will work then never mind. Could you give me a specific board and instructions how to interface with the one you recommend, I will try. Thanks. Another question is Instead of using the Fanuc control. Can Mach3 use with some motor drives to make an existing CNC machine to works ?

I later will post the Galil boards I still have in my company to see I can savage these boards.

Best Regards
Title: Re: Welcome to the official Mach 2/3/4 support forum.
Post by: Hood on December 16, 2010, 07:20:39 PM: You will see which models of Galil work here http://www.machsupport.com/forum/index.php/topic,11151.0.html
I have never used the Galil so you are best asking aboutthem in that section of the forum.

Not sure what you are meaning regarding the Fanuc.

Hood
Title: Re: Welcome to the official Mach 2/3/4 support forum.
Post by: Cuongle on December 16, 2010, 07:32:44 PM: Dear Hood, I do not think Galil is working more than 2 axis so forget about Galil card. Do you have any other card can work beautiful with March 3 to control Servo motors
Title: Re: Welcome to the official Mach 2/3/4 support forum.
Post by: Hood on December 17, 2010, 03:00:21 AM: Galils work with up to six axis as far as I know, it all depends on the model you have.

Other options for analogue drives are DSPMC and KFlop with the Kanalog card.

But as has already been said if your drives accept Step/Dir input, sometimes called pulse/dir or pulse/sign then you can use the parallel port or SmoothStepper or Kflop. If your drives can accept CW/CCW signals then I think you can also use the SmoothStepper.

Hood
Title: home referencing.
Post by: Howie on June 01, 2011, 07:37:20 PM: When I reference my machine settings to "0" I have each axis set to back off the switch by .500 inch on each axis. The axis will only back off about .1 inch - just barley clearings the limit switch. I have tried different settings for the back 0ff distance that is -- ,75" -1" ect. Nothing changes. I have the switches wired to share both limit and homing on the negative end. I have calibrated the mill so the measured distance is the same as the DROs - so I don't think that is the problem. Any help would be appreciated.
Title: Re: Welcome to the official Mach 2/3/4 support forum.
Post by: Hood on June 03, 2011, 05:52:17 PM: you can not back off the switches as such. The Home Off value is where you enter a distance that your home switches are away from Machine Zero. For example if your home switch on Y was at the fully positive direction then you would enter a Home Off value equal to the distance of your axis travel.

The way Mach homes is it will move to the switch and then reverse until the switch closes and that is set as home. If you have issues with the switch not quite closing and triggering false limits then you could try a bit of Debounce Interval (General Config page) but it is likely that your switches are not positive action and are bouncing.

You can of course alter the Ref All button to do an additional move after the home sequence if you are really wanting that.
Hood
Title: Re: Welcome to the official Mach 2/3/4 support forum.
Post by: Howie on June 05, 2011, 08:53:57 AM: Hood--Thanks for your prompt reply.. It seems that you are about the only one answering these questions.. Your efforts ARE APPREATED. Guess I misinterpreted the "home off" column in the "Home/limits" page . Thanks again.

Howie -- email lhowlong30@gmail.com
Title: Re: Welcome to the official Mach 2/3/4 support forum.
Post by: SHOPBOY on September 22, 2011, 11:45:54 AM: I am receiving a VB failure prompt on Mach3 when I am trying to mill a pocket cut –what am I doing wrong? I also notice that when I post from LazyCam in my info it is showing that it is being posted but it does show me on the screen that it has been posted to Mach3
Title: Re: Welcome to the official Mach 2/3/4 support forum.
Post by: Hood on September 22, 2011, 02:22:26 PM: Likely one of your macros is corrupt, maybe the M3 or M4 or spindle speed?
Hood
Title: Re: Welcome to the official Mach 2/3/4 support forum.
Post by: SHOPBOY on September 22, 2011, 04:21:43 PM: Whee would like look for this??? i only get this error when I try to do pocketing, if I am doing a contour it works fine.
Title: Re: Welcome to the official Mach 2/3/4 support forum.
Post by: Hood on September 22, 2011, 04:25:13 PM: Is there any more information in the error message?
Can you attach the code that gives you the issue and also your xml

Hood
Title: Re: Welcome to the official Mach 2/3/4 support forum.
Post by: SHOPBOY on September 23, 2011, 02:43:16 PM: I am receiving a VB failure prompt on Mach3 when I am trying to mill a pocket cut what am I doing wrong? I also notice that when I post from LazyCam in my info it is showing that it is being posted but it does show me on the screen that it has been posted to Mach3-- You replied that I might have a bad marco--how do Ii find this out and how do I fix it?
Title: Re: Welcome to the official Mach 2/3/4 support forum.
Post by: Hood on September 23, 2011, 02:46:13 PM: I cant really say unless you can say more specifically what the error message says, if it mentions a macro then maybe we can find the problem.
Hood