Hello all I gotta say I love the MACH3 software, I have been using it for 10 months now and functionally it is great. There has been some strange issue since day one that I cannot solve, and the crap software that MAX sends out doesn't cause these problems, so somehow there is a conflict with MACH3 in m,y setup. Speaking to MAXNC will get you no where.
When I power up the machine daily, using MACH3, I have to reboot the machine at least 5 times to get it to finally run. The first thing I do when powering up is test some x or y jog, and and if it works I then try to ref home. In most cases, once I ref home, it stops working right after the ref, occassionally it pops the breaker. then I restart the machine again a few times till x or y will move, then ref home again, until finally it will run. This goes on daily for 10 months now! I have been through the optimized text twice in detail. I am using the max driver that says ART version on it. There are times during cutting when I finish a code the thing will not do another part, just hangs up and needs to be rebooted, but once it is cutting, it usually finishes that part. I would rather deal with this headache than use their horrendous "dos like" software. I have been through the motor tuning a thousand times trying every variation. I have the minimmum inputs and outputs turned on, Below is my setup as is, if anyone here has been fortunate to get this combo of great softwre and soso machine to work, I would appreciate any help.
Maxnc clmode Ena
25000
MOTOR OUTS
X ENA 6 7 DIRLOW x STEP x STEPPORT 1 DIRPORT 1
Y ENA 4 5 DIRLOW x STEP x STEPPORT 1 DIRPORT 1
Z ENA 8 9 DIRLOW x STEP x STEPPORT 1 DIRPORT 1
SPIN 1 0 dIRLOW x sTEP Ena STEP 1 dIR 0 'spindle is now off due to blown pwm, motor is switched manually
INPUTS
x HOME Ena port 1 pin12 actlow X Emu X
y HOME Ena port 1 pin12 actlow X Emu X
z HOME Ena port 1 pin12 actlow X Emu X
input#1 Ena Port 1 Pin 10 X X
Estop Ena port 0 pin 0 X X
OUTPUTS
Output#1 Port 1 Pin 1 Actlow Ena 'disabled now
Output#16 Port 1 Pin 16 Actlow X
Output#17 Port 1 Pin 17 Actlow Ena
ENCODER/MPG
ALL 0, X
sPINDLE
disable spin rel Ena
Flood mist Ena
Use Spind Motor out Ena
PWM Ena
pwm base freq 40
min 25%
spin speed av ena p0.25 1 0.3