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General Mach Discussion / Re: G43 BREAKING TOOLS

« on: January 27, 2008, 04:57:26 PM »

Please post your macro as an attachment (in a zip file) and I will see if I can find an error.. Or if you like you can mail it to me off list..
Thanks
Brian

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General Mach Discussion / Re: G43 BREAKING TOOLS

« on: January 24, 2008, 12:33:08 PM »

You can use the old macro but you need to have a look at your safe Z settings...

Config / SafeZ

Thanks
Brian

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General Mach Discussion / Re: problem with the modality Sherline

« on: January 24, 2008, 11:19:14 AM »

Hello, Please have a look at the Sherline XML's on the FTP sever
ftp://ftp.machsupport.com/XMLs

You will find an XML for the sherline and it should fix your trouble.
thanks
Brian

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General Mach Discussion / Re: G43 BREAKING TOOLS

« on: January 23, 2008, 08:35:21 AM »

I think we will find that the problem is the toolchange  macro and not mach3...

Thanks hood for the test (Nice to see you made it to work today   )

Thanks
Brian

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General Mach Discussion / Re: G43 BREAKING TOOLS

« on: January 22, 2008, 11:24:27 PM »

Try this

M6end
REM The default script here moves the tool back to m6start if any movement has occured during the tool change..

x = GetToolChangeStart( 0 )
y = GetToolChangeStart( 1 )
z = GetToolChangeStart( 2 )
a = GetToolChangeStart( 3 )
b = GetToolChangeStart( 4 )
c = GetToolChangeStart( 5 )
'SafeZ = GetSafeZ()
'if  SafeZ  > z then StraightTraverse x, y,SafeZ, a, b, c
'StraightFeed  x, y,  z  , a, b, c
Code("G0X" & x & "Y" & y" & "A" & a )

I don't like the Safe Z and you have it set to a bad number... I would take it out of the tool change and if you would please turn it off .
thanks
Brian

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General Mach Discussion / Re: G43 BREAKING TOOLS

« on: January 22, 2008, 01:27:34 PM »

They will be in the Mach3\Macros\ <your profile> folder...

Thanks
Brian

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General Mach Discussion / Re: G43 BREAKING TOOLS

« on: January 22, 2008, 10:29:04 AM »

Erich,
I have run your program 10 times and I have not seen the problem... Could you check to see what you have in your M6start and M6end macros?

Hood could you please test this on your mill and tell me if you have the same problem?

Thanks
Brian

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General Mach Discussion / Re: G43 BREAKING TOOLS

« on: January 21, 2008, 11:31:29 PM »

Tested here with everthing on one line and it works as it should... Have you checked to see that you do not have any code in your toolchange macro?

Post some code and that my help to find the problem.
thanks
Brian

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General Mach Discussion / Re: G43 BREAKING TOOLS

« on: January 21, 2008, 04:59:20 PM »

Hello Erich,
The Offsets should not move the machine but with all the offsets in Mach3 it is very complex to tell if there are going to be any interactions...

I think the problem is that you are doing an "M6 t#" on the same line as a "G43 H#" You need to have the height offset on the line after the Toolchange code. That should work as you like (I was doing that last night ) I agree that it should not move and I have added it to my list of things to look at.
thanks
Brian

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General Mach Discussion / Re: G43 BREAKING TOOLS

« on: January 21, 2008, 02:50:58 PM »

Hello,
As you may know this is not a simple program and we do the best that we can to make it as safe as possible. But at times tings can get through the cracks... So if you can please post a small bit of code that your Cam system is making and lets see if we can fix the problem. The Standard way to do a toolchange is to have it on two lines...
For example:

M6t5
g43H5

I will see if I can get it to work with your nonstandard code... but there could be technical issues but we will do the best that we can.
thanks
Brian