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HiCON Motion Controller / Re: Adding a touch plate

« on: January 31, 2021, 04:17:52 PM »

More detail of what you are trying to achieve will help

There are probe routines and touch plate routines if you search for them.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Using multiple drill Z offsets in one drill chuck

« on: January 30, 2021, 12:46:22 PM »

If you are on a lathe with Mach3 lathe screen then you call tools with T0101 or T0102 or T0103 where the first 2 numbers are the tool number and the second pair are the offset number to use with that tool.

T0101 tool 1 offset 1

T0102 tool 1 offset 2

T0102 tool 1 offset 3

T1012 tool 10 offset 12
Etc.

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G-Code, CAD, and CAM discussions / Re: Please help! i'm new to this

« on: January 21, 2021, 09:01:39 PM »

G28.1 is a homing command and should not be a problem if you have home switches set up on your machine.

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SmoothStepper USB / Re: Adding a second BOB

« on: January 19, 2021, 08:08:16 PM »

The setting is the same only the port number becomes 2

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Mach4 Videos / Re: New to Mach 4 and have question

« on: January 19, 2021, 08:06:27 PM »

As long as you have set the centre line of the cutter to the edge of the work in X & Y then they will not change from tool to tool only the Z changes

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 G83 Peck looks like i may be loosing steps Problem

« on: January 13, 2021, 02:13:46 PM »

You may need to tune the acceleration on the Z axis to allow it to ramp up the speed, try halving it and see if that helps, you may be asking it to take the weight of the head too fast.
 

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Changing from plasma to mill profile

« on: January 12, 2021, 09:11:31 PM »

You also need to load the standard mill screen set 1024.set from the view menu.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 G83 Peck looks like i may be loosing steps Problem

« on: January 12, 2021, 09:02:38 PM »

Servo or stepper system?

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G-Code, CAD, and CAM discussions / Re: G83 Peck drill does not drill to specified depth. Subsequent holes even less

« on: January 12, 2021, 09:00:48 PM »

Slow the feed rate and see if you are loosing steps.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Lathe Threading (metric) with Mach4 and Pokeys57

« on: January 12, 2021, 01:20:34 PM »

Change your code to read :-

N92 G97 S250 M3
N95 G00 X6. Z10.  (Rapid move to Clearance Height)
N100 G76 P020060 Q0.1 R0.04 K1
N105 G76 X4.5 Z-10.0 R0.0 P0.25 Q0.1 F2.0
N110 G80