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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Spindle speed not correct

« on: February 09, 2021, 02:30:30 PM »

Well that is nonstandard Modbus... I am not impressed! I am looking into what we need to change to be able to talk to the drive. More later

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: code conversion Mach 3 to Mach 4

« on: February 09, 2021, 07:10:21 AM »

If you can send me a PM and I will have one of the guys contact you to check out your PC.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Spindle speed not correct

« on: February 09, 2021, 07:07:47 AM »

The manual for the drive is not great but I will crack it

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Spindle speed not correct

« on: February 09, 2021, 12:21:35 AM »

The VFD is in and we are starting to setup the test. I am using the opportunity to teach but will also give the settings here. I did get a cheaper 485 converter as an alternative so we can have a budget friendly option.

Trying not to forget anything here.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Laser Mode i.e. do not stop motion after a G01 G2 or G3 X_ Y_ S_

« on: February 09, 2021, 12:12:19 AM »

If anything it will at least be fun. We do have a Co2 laser we test on. What are you using for cam software?

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Laser Mode i.e. do not stop motion after a G01 G2 or G3 X_ Y_ S_

« on: February 08, 2021, 07:50:35 PM »

Had a chat with the other programmer and we have the analog out in sync with the GCode. It is not using the S command so that will be the change. The good news is all the parts are in place! Just need to put them together another way

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Laser Mode i.e. do not stop motion after a G01 G2 or G3 X_ Y_ S_

« on: February 08, 2021, 03:56:15 PM »

Making a new interpreter is cake. Granted it is a big cake... So don't expect anything over night but we will do this... This is way simpler than what I wanted to do !

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach 4 Unexpected behaviour/tool paths

« on: February 08, 2021, 03:45:30 PM »

Okay I get it, I just need you to test for me if you would please . if you can make it happen without making a part I can then get your profile from you and test it here. I want to fix this but I can 100% tell you that I am not having this on my system. There are many ways to make this happen and I just want to make sure we are looking for the correct one. We will get this.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Laser Mode i.e. do not stop motion after a G01 G2 or G3 X_ Y_ S_

« on: February 08, 2021, 03:19:31 PM »

it could be done but the issue is we would need to make another interpreter. The problem is that we have to deal with all the "stuff" a lathe, mill and router need when changing speeds. We even have code for a lathe to wait for the RPM to come up or down.

We are doing some lathe Dev work so that could be done. Is that the new hip way to do laser ?

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Font Engrave wizard X shift

« on: February 08, 2021, 03:16:19 PM »

My real issue is that in lua you can't pass pointers to objects, well sort of.. I had to take the posting class and after I did a require of the font take and jam the posting class into it's Metatable. I was trying to do it like I would in C because that is how I think... NOT SO! But we got it and at the end of the day it was simple once I got my stubborn head around it.

One good thing about making code is that you sure do feel good for about 20 min after it works ... Then you get the next problem and it starts all over again !