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General Mach Discussion / Re: G81 Canned cycle problem

« on: April 25, 2014, 06:27:46 PM »

NOT a chance of getting it fixed.

(;-) TP

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General Mach Discussion / Re: M code script and Exact stop

« on: April 25, 2014, 06:25:58 PM »

IF you are Drilling using a canned cycle thenThe exact stop is from the Canned cycle. Art/Brian never fixed the problem of it leaving Mach3 in exact stop mode on exit. You need to apply a G64 after every canned cycle to make SURE it is reset to CV mode.

NOT every canned cycle does it, (;-) TP

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General Mach Discussion / Re: "run from here" problem

« on: April 25, 2014, 05:49:07 PM »

HUM I have never seen that here(;-) or even heard of that one. 

Here I am on .067  That is the release that Brian and Tom from Candcnc worked on to get some glitches fixed for plasma.

(;-) TP

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Comments about Mach4 in Demo

« on: April 24, 2014, 09:54:42 PM »

When will we get a LPT plugin to use ??

(;-) TP

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General Mach Discussion / Re: "run from here" problem

« on: April 24, 2014, 06:13:17 PM »

OK thinking out loud the problem with the G28.1 and RFH is it cycles the G28.1 EVERY time it sees it. This causes the Torch to RAISE up a bit. The more times it is run the higher that torch gets off the material. So when it is ready to cycle start the torch fires WELL off the material. OR it cycles UP far enough to trip the Z limit.

Now running the G28.1 from a macro then Mach3 does NOT see it when cycling thru the RFH thus does NOT raise the torch each time.

Running with Block delete you use the block delete to delete those lines of code in the G28.1 routine so it also does not raise the torch during the RFH.

You might could Recreate a RFH button that added the TOM code in after it cycles so it refinds the the material top(needs testing again)but I think I did that once and it did not cycle correctly with the RFH.

I do not have the old test notes anymore so off hand I do not know of a way from Gcode to do it.

Here is you chance to be famous and a MASTER  Mach3 WIZARD   

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General Mach Discussion / Re: "run from here" problem

« on: April 23, 2014, 11:32:57 PM »

No you are not (;-) It is easy enough using Set next line to a few lines before you stopped then get ready to refire the torch when it approaches the spot you stopped at. It works well here, have used it many times to restart mid program without a hitch.

(;-) TP

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General Mach Discussion / Re: "run from here" problem

« on: April 23, 2014, 08:47:47 PM »

(;-) I worked on that one for well over a year. Without success, well it could be done with a LOT of block deletes statements but that was a PAIN in itself.

But I will review it ONE more time

(;-) TP

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Forum suggestions and report forum problems. / Re: Plasma section in the Forum

« on: April 21, 2014, 07:44:09 PM »

A while Back I tryed to get that done but no luck.

You May want to go over to the CandCNC site. Tom has a Ethernet based system that has it OWN motion controller built in and does NOT rely on Mach3 for the precision  THC controls and it can be stepper OR servo based. It also has advanced Plasma machine controls built into mach3 as well.

A good source for info and TOm will answer most questions on his forum.

Just a suggestion, AND yes I use one of the earliier version of his systems.

(;-) TP

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General Mach Discussion / Re: "run from here" problem

« on: April 21, 2014, 07:27:01 PM »

Hood what you may not be aware of IN plasma when you are doing TOM routines  that may contain certain calls such as G28.1  the Run from here does not work correctly. Never has never will . You can get it to work IF the TOM routine is in MACRO form BUT that also may cause problems with macros that contain Gcode.

Seeing as the XML is from a plasma unit it may have problems with the TOM routine will trying to do a Run From Here .  It is best to use Set Next Line and restart the torch on the fly as you approach the restart position.

Just  a thought, (;-) TP

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Getting text to a macro

« on: April 20, 2014, 05:02:21 PM »

Hopefully you ment CAM. Just mod the post to include the description of the tool in brackets . AND the M00 to stop the program so that you can see it in the Mach3 message line

( tool description)
M00