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Mach Discussion => Mach4 General Discussion => Topic started by: sellier on September 10, 2021, 02:59:07 AM
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Hello
I have an XHC control board 6 axes M4 and a VDF Xsy-AT1 and my problem is that I can not set Mach4 even after activating the function in the VDF (P10-2 and P11-2) to have the speed variation of my pin, I have triggered, but the speed remains at zero and no possible variation since Mach 4. Can you tell me how to set
Mach4 to have this variation Thank you
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Hi,
Mach4 is really two programs, Mach4Core.exe and Mach4GUI.exe.
The XHC controller does not support Mach4GUI.exe, it runs instead xwMach.exe which is a very stripped down, bare bones User Interface.
Many features of Mach are unavailable with that interface but are fully and readily available to Mach4GUI.exe. I believe the problem that you
cannot set 'Mach4' because that is non-changeable feature of wxMach.
If you want to get the most from Mach4 then you'll need a controller, or rather a controller plugin, that supports MachGUI.exe.
All the US an European made controllers do so, the one lone Chinese controller, XHC, does not.
Craig
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Hello
so this is specific to Mach4 ?
because I have the same version of card in Mach3 and it works very well !!!
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Hi,
yes, XHC have for some reason not bothered to complete their plugin and consequently can't use Mach4GUI. I have heard also the
XHC were offered assistance by NFS to do so....but still can't be bothered.
There have been a few posts in a couple of threads about these supposed 'Mach4 ready' XHC controllers, it seem everyone has in the end ditched them in
favor of a US or European made controller.
wxMach was a very early user interface to test the core, it was always intended that it was to be superseded with a genuine GUI.
Craig