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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: X Box here we come!

« on: December 23, 2020, 02:11:29 PM »

Ahh.... I was thinking about using it to help hit the part into the vice... your idea is better...

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: X Box here we come!

« on: December 23, 2020, 10:46:08 AM »

I have been using the right and left throttles for the Z up and down. But that is me and I am not normal.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: X Box here we come!

« on: December 23, 2020, 10:22:20 AM »

I could make it so you hold down a button and it will do INC moves with the joystick ... for example hold down the right joystick and move side to side will cause INC moves in any jog that is being done. That would not change the mapping of the entire controller.

Clear as mud or am I rambling geek speak again??

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: X Box here we come!

« on: December 23, 2020, 09:28:50 AM »

The real issue I have with this is that I have no way to display what "mode" the buttons are in. For example you think it is in mouse mode you pick it up and move the joystick and jam the tool into the side of the part because it was in analog mode. I really don't want the user to have to add anything to the screen to make this work. So a radio button is sort of out for me . See my issue? Or maybe I am over thinking this and simply need to code it.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 2 Point Outside Centering Problem.

« on: December 23, 2020, 06:38:23 AM »

We have tested this tons of times and I had them make a video about it. The probe is a little to complex for people to use. So we came up with the touch module that is in the router screen as a more simple way to do probing.  We have a new guy starting next year and I can make it his first job to simplify / streamline the probe functions.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: macro for Reference All Axes

« on: December 23, 2020, 06:31:14 AM »

Steve and I made the surface map so you put them in and out on easy run Also I have not done it myself but Mach Motion has done kinematics in the filters (that is what we call the plugins that modify the path).

I get your issue. Let me see if I can find a way to kill the open file. The issue is I don think we have the Handle to it anymore. We may be able to save it to a register so we can find it if there is a glitch.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: X Box here we come!

« on: December 23, 2020, 06:23:00 AM »

I never added a way to do incremental jogging. I don’t really know how that should be done to tell you the truth. That is why I added the massive amount of exponential to the jog values.

I think your asking to have two mappings. One while in mouse mode and the other then it is in mach4 ? That could be done but the setup becomes a little complex. I really like the tap a key and set it and I don’t want to get away from that.

I am willing to make some changes, you have any good ideas how that could be done and make it easy to setup and not complex to operate?

The MPG stuff is leftover from the shuttle pro, may need to be taken out

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: A-Axis from 359 to 360 /(0)

« on: December 22, 2020, 03:56:10 PM »

It needed to know I was looking

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: macro for Reference All Axes

« on: December 22, 2020, 03:38:17 PM »

I don't have an idea at the moment but I will think on this. I have not looked at the probe to file code in a LONG LONG time

A thought is if you can vacuum the part down and it is the same all the time could you use the surface map plugin? This would do what your other software is doing.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 Blinking Lines in Tool Path window

« on: December 22, 2020, 02:39:58 PM »

Update and tell me if it works !

I think they fixed it! Woot Woot!