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General Mach Discussion / Re: What does "Allow Wave Files" do?

« on: July 04, 2010, 10:00:18 AM »

HIYA AL, Just retested here V.040 and it works fine.   Gerry As I understand it the named macros is for VB in Ver4 not Gcode

****Gcode File:

(TestSub.tap)
F20
G00 X0 Y0 Z0 F20
M98 (SpeakHello.txt)
G01 X5.000 Y5.000 (DOES NOT Skip this line)
G01 X0.000 Y0.000
M98 P10
G01 X3.000 Y3.000 (Reads this line)
G01 X0 Y0
M30

O10
M777
M99
%


********Named Sub goes into sub directory:

(Testspeak.txt)
M777
M99
%


********Macro goes into macro\profile directory:

'Macro M777
Speak "Now you have done it"
end

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General Mach Discussion / Re: What does "Allow Wave Files" do?

« on: July 04, 2010, 09:29:00 AM »

There was an udate version that cured the skipped line on sub return

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General Mach Discussion / Re: How start to run an Embroidery Mach profile

« on: July 03, 2010, 11:00:29 PM »

OK what is the Mcode(M786) for that will slow down the code. I don't remember the Mcode in  Khalid's gcode file.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Combine G73 and G83 Peck Drill Cycle!!

« on: July 03, 2010, 05:41:44 PM »

BOB is correct, working with stainless can be painfully slow as you cannot dwell AND speeds are critical. We found cobalt to be the best compromise of cost and durability working with oddsurface shapes such as tubes.

It far outlasted HSS and cost much less than GOOD carbide. 

BUT if it were a high production and cost sensitive CARBIDE all the way and run as fast as possble

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Is anyone else using E1P1 / E1P0 to switch output #1 ?

« on: July 03, 2010, 05:35:39 PM »

OK I found it in my OLD notes. It was the trick Art added in for Plasma OEMs

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Is anyone else using E1P1 / E1P0 to switch output #1 ?

« on: July 03, 2010, 05:07:13 PM »

Ian the M3 and other Mcodes  run in the VB side. IF you call any macro it could be VB releated

That should have read Gcode/VB interactions(;-)  At a certain Ver time line large delays started to appear in Gcode/VB.  Pre V.019 things ran very well and predictable. After that things took a lot of revamping to even run much less be reliable.

BUT that is just my findings.


(;-) OK I must have been absent one day at school WHAT is  E1P0/1?

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General Mach Discussion / Re: How start to run an Embroidery Mach profile

« on: July 03, 2010, 04:52:52 PM »

RENE it may run as slow as several secs per stitch.

I have said all along that it probably will not work.

There is no way to do what you want from Mach as it is .

Maybe from a plug in where you have direct access to the engine and fast I/O

You best bet is going to be to set up the spindle with a large FAST servo and let Gcode run the show. There IS a reason why embroidery machines run proprietary hardware/software.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: What does "Allow Wave Files" do?

« on: July 03, 2010, 12:40:07 PM »

Actually IF you really wanted to do it (;-)

M98 (Namedfile)



AND make "SUB"   call the Macro you want.

************************
(sub)
NamedFile.txt
M777
M99

**********************
'M777
Speak" WELL, now you have done it"
end

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Is anyone else using E1P1 / E1P0 to switch output #1 ?

« on: July 03, 2010, 12:18:11 PM »

Just for what it is worth this has been an ongoing problem and gets worse with later vers of MACH. I think there was a change in how Mach/VB relates to each other and it has made things worse for VB/Gcode interactions.

I can remember back when you NEVER needed a wait state and got repeatable results . NOW that same code will NOT work at all. It stumbles all over itself and skips code to boot.  Same code same computer new VER.

Just for what it is worth, (;-)

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Combine G73 and G83 Peck Drill Cycle!!

« on: July 03, 2010, 10:58:31 AM »

OOPS that should have been

G73 X0.000 Y0.000 Z-0.1 R0.100 F10
Z-1.000 R-0.900
Z.1R 0.100
G80

OR
G73 X0.000 Y0.000 Z-0.1 R0.100 F10
Z-1.000 R-0.900
G80
G0Z.1


ALSO you may want to try a cobalt bit instead of HSS.