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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: IMTS 2018

« on: May 24, 2018, 05:07:07 PM »

Yes, I would also like to meet you guys!

We stopped by the Newfangle/Element booth in 2016 to see who was there!

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Painfully slow path display on large programs.

« on: May 24, 2018, 05:05:36 PM »

Thanks for the input Steve,

Just curious, why is anything under 16 GB bad for windows 10? 

When it comes to regenerating my toolpath, I've gotten in this cycle start habit of Regen --> Cycle Start.  Just to be safe.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Painfully slow path display on large programs.

« on: May 24, 2018, 04:40:12 PM »

Even in Mach3 I had to hit the "regenerate toolpath" button if I updated my work offset.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Painfully slow path display on large programs.

« on: May 24, 2018, 10:07:16 AM »

I generally have pretty decent luck with computers I put 8 GB Ram in.  I was having issues with a lathe that kept crashing Mach4, switched out computers to a new processor and 8GB Ram and it seemed to fixed the problem. 
We are trying to find a reliable set up to use Mach4.  I will try 16 GB Ram in a mill we have that runs a little slow and see if that helps.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: IMTS 2018

« on: May 24, 2018, 08:13:11 AM »

I don't know of anyone who will be there utilizing Mach4 Industrial, but I did ask Mach Motion yesterday if they were attending IMTS; they said they are not planning on it but they have a couple of booths with their controls in them.  

You may be able to email them to pin point which booths will have their control, they may be using industrial.

Looking forward to IMTS this year myself!  

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Painfully slow path display on large programs.

« on: May 24, 2018, 08:06:25 AM »

Stuart,
You think 8 gigs of ram is to small for Windows 10? 

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Homing & Limit Switches

« on: May 23, 2018, 02:28:23 PM »

If you have 1 switch that is used for X Home, X++, and X-- it will do 2 things.  1, It will home when it is in the homing routine, and 2, it will trigger an over travel.  

Although WE know the machine was moving in a positive direction when the over travel has been triggered, the CONTROLLER only knows that an over travel has been triggered.

If you have the one switch plugged into each over travel (X++ and X--) in the config the machine will think it is on both switches.  

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: How to Pass Values to Subroutines in Mach4

« on: May 16, 2018, 12:25:08 PM »

You can comment with a semicolon  ";"  or put it in Parentheses ( ) 
The G Code programming manual is a good manual when pertaining to G Code. 
For writing Subroutine Macros, Steve pointed me to this book.   Fanuc CNC Custom Macros

https://www.amazon.com/Fanuc-Custom-Macros-Peter-Smid/dp/0831131578/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1526487924&sr=8-1&keywords=fanuc+cnc+custom+macros&dpID=51K7GW1TH3L&preST=_SY291_BO1,204,203,200_QL40_&dpSrc=srch

It was very helpful when writing code for our OD Grinders.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Multi head machine with 2 sets of gcode

« on: May 16, 2018, 10:12:31 AM »

Very Cool!

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Out-Of-Band Axes in Hobby vs Indusrial

« on: May 11, 2018, 05:44:53 PM »

Hey Craig,
I'm using 3787.  It is not in the API on this version either.  I found it by typing and seeing it pop up in Zero Brane.  I guess they haven't updated the API yet.