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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: DRO Code differences

« on: April 29, 2014, 08:03:16 AM »

The good news is you can still use the G68 function. Making it jog at that angle is not a big issue but it will be some time before we can get to it. Now if you wanted you could make it jog at an angle. You have the power in the scripting to do it if you want to

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: DRO Code differences

« on: April 28, 2014, 09:43:52 PM »

You can do MDI moves in INC mode.. that is how it is done on the large CNC machines. I know it is a change and no one likes change . We may be able to change this over time but for now it is what it is. Later we will be turning on some of the out of band axis code and we could make a false axis that could be set to the G68 rotation. Then you could jog X Y and the angle axis .... That to me is a much better way! We have the tools in the core

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Comments about Mach4 in Demo

« on: April 28, 2014, 09:18:57 PM »

That is a good point ... I forgot to tell them that they can lower the refresh rate... Mach3 is set to 100ms as a bench mark (and you can't change it). In Mach4 the IO updates and so on are not effected my the screen refresh. So you could set the refresh on the screen to 250 ms if you want to see 1990 Cad Graphics LOL

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: DRO Code differences

« on: April 28, 2014, 09:11:10 PM »

No, If you have G68 the Jog should be by the axis NOT the coordinate system. The last thing we need is to press a jog key and have it go the other way..
MDI and Gcode commands will follow the G68 rotation. We could add a rotated DRO but that may be in a Dot Rev.. We are following how it works on the industrial machines

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Comments about Mach4 in Demo

« on: April 28, 2014, 09:02:34 PM »

Well... after the years of anticipated wait and Artsoft's much toted PR (and seems to be BS now) about the ALL NEW Mach 4 "Completely rewritten from the ground with less than 1% of Mach 3 code... what we have is a Mach 4 bug ridden flop! No plug ins, no parallel port option and the list of screwups is growing.  A piece of advice to Artsoft... don't quit your day job.

LOL You are a nice guy, Did you see that we are not willing to release? Steve didn't say anything about the P Port because I am working with Art.. The fact is that the P Port is mostly done. You can stop your feet, bite your nails and bitch all you like. The fact is this all takes time and because it is new it will have bugs. We did what we could to make it work as well as we could for the testers. I wish we where infallible but we can only test so much and program so many hours in a day. So be constructive and tell us what you would like to see worked on. That is what this phase is all about. If you want finished 100% software spend the money and get a Fanuc. They will take your money and they will give you one heck of a system.



 

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: DRO Code differences

« on: April 28, 2014, 08:51:36 PM »

DRO's don't change in Mach4...

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: DRO Code differences

« on: April 28, 2014, 08:50:24 PM »

Looks like it is working in my files

(2PanelNoOffset)
G68 r0
G00 G54
G90 G54
G61
S15000 M3
G4 P3
G0 X2 Y2 Z1
z.1
#10=1
M98 P1000 L20
G0 G90 Z1
G0 X6 Y2
z.1
G68 X6 Y2 R45
#10=1
M98 P1000 L20
X0.0 Y0.0
M5
G68 r0
M30

O1000
G91
G1 F10
Z-.1
X[#10]
Y[#10*-1]
X[#10*-1]
Y[#10]
#10=[#10+.1]
M99

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Comments about Mach4 in Demo

« on: April 28, 2014, 10:24:00 AM »

As soon as I have some free time I will try to make an on screen Keyboard plugin.. We should be able to connect it to the DRO's somehow LOL

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Comments about Mach4 in Demo

« on: April 28, 2014, 10:18:52 AM »

Hi Brian,

Are you taking notes of the comments and reports, or are they getting consistently missed...? What's the purpose of this thread then anyway? Would be nice of you (or Steve) could confirm that a comment posted has been noted.

Dan

We are reading this thread and talking about it. At the same time I am getting data from the Yahoo forum and direct mails. Many updates have been done but we are programing and working to quickly to note every comment.. but we are reading them all!

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Comments about Mach4 in Demo

« on: April 25, 2014, 04:56:39 PM »

Wonderful Tom, We would would love to get you started and we have examples and so on we can get to you..

Contact us and Todd will get you the paperwork for getting the API and Steve and I will be here to help you .

Thanks
Brian