Thanks for the note, I am happy to hear you find the Power Feed a useful wizard.

I think the screen is already to crowded, so I would hate add anymore DROs.

The problem with making it a Mach screen is that there are just to many screens that some guys find useful- where would we stop?

Save Wizard saves all the DRO and LED values in the user space, whether they have been defined on a screen or not. They are saved into a file with the same name as your wizard but with .def for type. Every time your wizard is started up it will read the .def file to take all initial values.

The system DROs are not saved in the wizard set.

Its not a problem for duplication of numbers between wizards, since we can only run one wizard at a time. But duplication between macros and macropumps can be an issue We have had a couple strange bugs reported by guys that have a macropump running and then startup the Newfangled Wizards.  It would have been nice if someone had set a standard back in the early days, like wizards start at 1000 and go up and macropumps start at 1255 and go down, but it has not happened, and its always a risk.

Global functions and buttons are not possible. I just had dinner with Brian tonight and bugged him again to do this, but its a big change in the way VB is integrated into Mach and its not likely to happen. He agrees it would have been a better way, but its to late to go back. One of the main features of Flash in my view is a more integrated programming environment.

The wizard builds one big program per session. Each run is a new session and starts with a blank file. Every operation you do adds to that file, which is loaded into Mach when you end the wizard run.

But it does not save code from one run to the next. It does however remember the settings you used the last time it ran so when you open each operation the values shown are the ones from the last time you ran that operation.

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ArtSoft USA is sponsoring a 3 day Mach workshop at the Cabin Fever Expo. This is a chance to get in depth technical information about Mach, meet Brian, Scott and other Mach users, and enjoy one of the best model engineering shows in the US.

The event is January 16, 17, 18, 2009 at York PA.  Everyone registered for the seminar is also registered for the expo. You can visit the several hundred exhibitors, or the nearly 200 vendors of tools, machinery, books, kits, plans, etc.

On Friday a major auction will be running with hundreds of items, including machines, tools, all kinds of shop equipment and  models. The seminar schedule has several breaks included so you can take advantage of both the expo and the seminar.

For details about Cabin Fever and the auction see http://cabinfeverexpo.com/

Seminars will start Friday at 9:00AM. the tentative agenda is as follows:

Friday
1) Mechanical Considerations. Stepper, servos, ballscrews, belts, pullies, etc
2) Electronics, BOBs, SS, Geckos, Power supplies, general wiring hints
3) Installing Mach and basic config, ports and pins, motor tuning, basic test and debug
4) General config, choosing the right answers.

Saturday
5) Basic Mach operation, loading programs, running, operator control, CV
6) Wizard Operation
7) Operator interfaces- Shuttle Pro, Xkeys, Ipac, PoKeys, MPGs, pendants, etc.
Customizing screens and macros.

Sunday
9) Other I/O options, modbus, PLCs, Brains, tool changers.
10) Plug-ins, using and writing.
11) Wrap up, feedback, next steps.

On Friday night there will be a social event at a nearby hotel, details to be arranged, but we are calling it 'pizza and beer time'

There will be a demo area for CNC machines, we will have at least a mini-mill with a tool changer, a lathe with a tool changer and a router. Other demos are welcome if any users want to bring along machines.

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Mark your calendar now and watch this topic for more details as they are developed.

Which version are you running? It should be 2.79

There was a bug in the tool comp code that shwed this effect- it was different between the POST and the PREVIEW buttons.

V2.79 is in another topic on this forum

G51 sets a scale factor, so G51 X 1.0066 ought to do what you want. Put that into the init string thats in the Config/general screen and it will execute every time mach starts up. Might be safer to first do G50 to reset all scales to zero, then the G51.

Where are you seeing any binary code? That should not happen using any of the right tools.

A wizard is simply a screen set, with buttons that do whatever is needed. The screen set is designed and edited with the Screen4 program. The button code is written and edited by opening the screen in Mach, then selecting the Operator menu then Edit Button Script.

What is your screen size? Do you have the check on Config/General set to auto enlarge screens?

The wizards have no control over the screen size, thats up to mach to re-size them when they open.

One supplier of kits for model machine tools is PM Research, http://www.pmresearchinc.com/store/home.php?cat=6

They offer many machines, and also several model steam engines. Many of them are aluminum castings, they also offer a couple steam engines in brass. They also have an extensive line of model parts, like pipe fittings, pressure gauges, etc. Nice people to do business, with, always exhibit at the major model engineering shows.

I will fix a 2.79T version as soon as I can. This version will run on Tormach but it will get an error when you try to open the tool table, and if you try to edit the process list.