I have a small Machine (600mm X 300mm) on which I use an XBox controller as my pendant. I also have a laser crosshair (vitually identical to the Tweakie setup) which I use to position the X and Y axes for the progarm start point.
Trouble is, I have the pendant configured to prevent diagonal moves - this because I find it a lot easier to keep to straight X or Y moves to get me close to the required start point. I can then 'jog' at slow speed to get me right over the start point i require - again using the pendant.
However, when I use the 'Tweakie' macro to move the cutting head to the required start point, Mach3 seems to have great difficulty in deciding which X or Y move to make to get me there. The motors make a lot of weird noises but do eventually get me to the right point. It seems like it struggles to do it smoothly as one continuous move.
I would prefer to do the moves singly (rather than a diagonal) as I dont want to change the configuration on the pendant for the reasons already stated above.
I admit to being absolutely useless with VB in Mach3 - its like it's written in Chinese to me, just can't get my haed around it at all, I find the whole VB thing a bit of a black art!
However, I can (just about) get the result I am looking for via the MDI Line instructions - providing I concentrate.
My thoughts are that I would like to string together two lines that I use via the MDI to make the moves required but with some sort of 'WAIT' instruction between the lines so that they dont both happen concurrently - and attempt this diagonal movement again.
Can someone possibly point me in the right direction with this?
Many thnks if you can....