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4561

Mach3 under Vista / Re: Mach3 not controlling motors

« on: May 15, 2018, 02:04:22 PM »

Hi,
have you selected it as the motion plugin?

What about the Widows USB driver, have you installed that?

Craig

4562

Mach3 under Vista / Re: Mach3 not controlling motors

« on: May 15, 2018, 05:14:31 AM »

Hi,
that is the plugin, you don't want to open it but rather copy it and place a copy in Machs Plugins folder.
The other file is the Windows driver, not sure how you run that....

Craig

4563

Mach3 under Vista / Re: Mach3 not controlling motors

« on: May 15, 2018, 04:34:52 AM »

Hi,
I downloaded WinRAR as a trial:

https://www.win-rar.com/start.html?&L=0

Craig

4564

Mach3 under Vista / Re: Mach3 not controlling motors

« on: May 15, 2018, 04:32:27 AM »

Hi,
yes its a zip archive file. You'll need a program to unzip it, something like WinZip.

It will extract the two files, the driver and the plugin. THEN you can run the driver.

Craig

4565

Mach3 under Vista / Re: Mach3 not controlling motors

« on: May 15, 2018, 04:07:46 AM »

Hi.
I have not used a USS, I have an ESS. The ESS does not need a driver, the PC provides a driver for its Ethernet port but it does require a specialized driver for a USS.
Ergo the Windows USS driver. It needs to be downloaded, extracted and run/installed on your PC in order for the USS to communicate with the PC. You must go to
the Warp9 website and follow the instructions for installing the Windows USB driver.

In addition you need a plugin, its a program provided by Warp9 for their device, it is a go between the Mach3 application and the USS. It will need to be installed
in Mach3's plugin folder and then when Mach starts be selected as the active motion control plugin.

Start Mach go to Functions Cfgs\Reset Device Sel....  You will have to close Mach and then re-start. Mach should ask you which motion control plugin you wish to use,
select the one for the USS. You can dismiss the window and commonly you would check the box not to offer it again, once you've set the motion control plugin you don't
need to set it at each Mach start.

Craig

4566

Mach3 under Vista / Re: Mach3 not controlling motors

« on: May 15, 2018, 03:44:31 AM »

Hi,
well those files sound about right.

Have you installed the Windows driver per Warp9's instruction?
Have you selected the Mach3 USS plugin as your active  motion plugin?

Craig

4567

Mach3 under Vista / Re: Mach3 not controlling motors

« on: May 14, 2018, 09:51:52 PM »

Hi,
is your Windows OS 32 bit or 64 bit?

What is the version number of the SmoothStepper plugin? Should be in the plugins folder.

Craig

4568

Third party software and hardware support forums. / Re: A way to control the direction on VFD

« on: May 14, 2018, 12:35:58 AM »

Hi,
yes tapping, but VFD driven spindles have such poor torque at low speed that it doubtful it will work
unless its a really big spindle. Additionally you'll need some sort of encoder to synchronise with the
other axes, and position control with asynchronous spindles is fraught at best.

Craig

4569

Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Assistance Configuring an Ethernet SmoothStepper in Mach4

« on: May 13, 2018, 06:32:53 PM »

Hi,
I have this pretty much permanently on the desktop when coding:

https://www.lua.org/manual/5.2/

Beware that some features of 5.3 don't work...and its not plainly evident why not.
Funnily enough its not Lua per se which is difficult its using the API and understanding the structure of Mach
with all its different scripts...screen load...screen unload...PLC....PMC and on and on.

Craig

4570

Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Assistance Configuring an Ethernet SmoothStepper in Mach4

« on: May 12, 2018, 09:10:19 PM »

Hi Osker,
kool, you like a challenge.....well I've got JUST THE THING:

http://www.machsupport.com/forum/index.php/topic,37266.0.html

smurph describes it like poking a 'knitting needle in one ear and out the other'. Having tried to do it anyway I can certainly agree with his description!.
It seems only fair to spread the pain/misery around...LOL

Craig