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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Signal Number Definitions

« on: February 19, 2021, 12:42:02 AM »

it would be mc.OSIG_SPINDLE_FWD.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: service timer

« on: February 06, 2021, 01:14:09 PM »

http://www.machsupport.com/ftp/Mach4/DevlopmentVersions/

Get the latest one.  4609, I believe

Steve

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: X Box here we come!

« on: February 06, 2021, 03:36:56 AM »

I think he meant to say 4609.

Steve

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Status Messages, History

« on: February 06, 2021, 03:22:38 AM »

I know about Lawrence Welk.    "There are good days and there are bad days, and this is one of them."

You could also disable the home signal for the spindle after the spindle has been homed. 

Steve

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Galil / Re: Anyone have older revision firmware for DMC40x0 controllers?

« on: February 05, 2021, 01:41:14 AM »

Galil has 1.2f firmware on their site.  I just used it. 

Steve

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: M4 crash on launch

« on: February 03, 2021, 06:58:17 PM »

I would look first to the video driver.  If I were a betting man, I would wager that you have an Intel GPU on the CPU or "integrated graphics" that are notorious for shipping with a crap OpenGL implementation.  Updating the driver usually solves the issue.

Steve

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Predefined action does not perform the expected operation "Zero X"

« on: February 03, 2021, 06:50:55 PM »

mc.SV_PROBE_POS_X to mc.SV_PROBE_POS_C for user coordinates

and

mc.SV_PROBE_MACH_POS_X  to mc.SV_PROBE_MACH_POS_C for machine coordinates.

If the probe does not strike, the end points of the G31 move is stored.  This gives you the ability to determine if the probe struck or not with a little bit of math. 

All positions are captured, no matter which axis was moving during the G31. 

Steve

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Analog control

« on: February 03, 2021, 01:26:41 PM »

The Galil controllers offer analog control.  And we have a plugin for the DMC-41x3 and DMC-40x0 controllers.  The 41x3 controllers are not too bad expensive.  But it is going to be like $1500.00 for the controller.  And then you would still have old drives and motors. 

Personally, if it might cost me twice as much to put new digital servo drives and motors on there, I would consider doing it.  I use a Galil on my old Matsuura mill with the factory drives and motors.  Yeah, I got the machine running cheaper than buying new drives and motors.  But there will come a day (and I'm always thinking it might be today!) that those drives/motors will give up.  And then I will have to fix it with new stuff anyway. 

Steve

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: FTP Server Access

« on: February 02, 2021, 06:40:32 PM »

I made this soooooooo easy twenty five years ago (an exaggeration in jest).

Just use HTTP>

http://www.machsupport.com/ftp/

Steve

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach 4 back up / Modus operandi

« on: December 03, 2020, 02:54:05 AM »

Adam,

They are in the stored in the Machine.ini that will be in your packaged profile.  So for all thing stock Mach, a profile package is a GREAT backup.  Now I can't say for certain where all data is stored for plugins that we didn't write.  But I would think most will use the Machine.ini file as well. 

Steve