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Mach4 General Discussion / Thanks

« on: March 14, 2019, 09:49:48 AM »

Just wanted to put a general thank you to everyone who has helped me recently.
I know I missed some specific thanks.
I am also sure I will be posting more questions in the near future while I try to get my head wrapped around the Lua.

Thanks again,
Bill

392

Mach4 General Discussion / protected dro's

« on: March 13, 2019, 03:46:55 PM »

How can I change the properties of the following dro's so I can write to them from a macro?
X Machine Position
X Fixture Offset
X Offset

Thanks,

Bill

393

Mach4 General Discussion / Re: DRO Properties

« on: March 13, 2019, 03:35:12 PM »

Brett,

Thanks.

Bill

394

Mach4 General Discussion / Re: 2 simple lines

« on: March 13, 2019, 11:54:39 AM »

Chad,

We used the GcodeExecute

Bill

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Mach4 General Discussion / DRO Properties

« on: March 13, 2019, 11:22:51 AM »

Under DRO Properties and Editor there are 4 choices;
In Place
Keypad
Keypad Extended
Read Only

What exactly do each of those do?

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: 2 simple lines

« on: March 13, 2019, 09:43:44 AM »

We did end up using G28.1 to do the homing.
Thanks for the tip.

Bill

397

Mach4 General Discussion / Re: 2 simple lines

« on: March 11, 2019, 03:39:37 PM »

Ignore the last 2 lines.
They are not in the one I am using.

398

Mach4 General Discussion / 2 simple lines

« on: March 11, 2019, 02:24:02 PM »

Why will the attached work as a button but not as a mcode?

399

Mach4 General Discussion / Re: pay for help

« on: March 07, 2019, 09:03:52 AM »

Chad,

What I was thinking to do was do move then use and m code to check where the encoder says the position is, writing over the position dro and doing the move again. None of the errors in positioning should be very great on 1 small move but the accumulated error over the full length could be great.

Bill

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: pay for help

« on: March 07, 2019, 08:17:13 AM »

Thanks all for the responses.
Chad, you are correct in the order.
It does different things as the metal moves through the machine.
All of it is stuff that Mach can do except for some selecting of what to run and where to start which is all stuff out current custom software does.
We have modified out current software to output a gcode to be able to use Mach instead of out current controller board.
Here is a sample;

M54
G1 F 200.0 X22.81
M54
;Arc End Notch
G1 F 200.0 X22.93
M54
G1 F 200.0 X23.48
M54
G1 F 200.0 X24.00
M54
G1 F 200.0 X24.03
M54
G1 F 200.0 X24.58
M54
;Arc End Notch
G1 F 200.0 X24.76
M54

;Start Bending

G1 F200.0 X25.24
M57
G1 F3000.0 Y2.44
G1 F3000.0 Y-20

G1 F 200.0 X25.31
M54
G1 F200.0 X25.34
G1 F3000.0 Y24.49
G1 F3000.0 Y-10

G1 F200.0 X25.44
G1 F3000.0 Y28.67
G1 F3000.0 Y-10

G1 F 200.0 X25.50
M56
G1 F200.0 X25.54
G1 F3000.0 Y28.67
G1 F3000.0 Y-10

Actually very simple stuff.
My biggest problem is getting an encoder input for the material positioning.
We have an encoder with a wheel that rolls on the material.
Then if the feed roller slips we actually get the positioning from the encoder.
I think I might be getting a very very small handle on how to do the macros.

Craig.
Yes it is probably a little ambitious as far as time goes but I am just repeating what my boss wanted.
We have an opportunity to make a final purchase of out current controller board but want to know we are going to be able to work using Mach.
I wish you lived closer because we would absolutely pay for the development help.

Bill