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General Mach Discussion / Re: Frustrated Newbie,

« on: April 16, 2020, 08:10:01 PM »

That one is a pain,  it has to have the 12/24 volt power to enable the outputs and also the enable pin on pin 14 for the drives, you may or may not need it depending how you have the drivers wired.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Frustrated Newbie,

« on: April 16, 2020, 07:56:41 PM »

In most cases its the breakout board that has to be enabled for outputs, pin 14 is common but it could be any of them. It could also be that the board needs a second 12/24v power supply.

A picture of the board and setup my help us.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Trying Mach 4 for the first time, Gcode won't load, fine in Mach 3

« on: April 16, 2020, 07:50:02 PM »

Mach4 has a default tool/offset limit of 16 if you go in to Config you can set it higher OR make your tool numbers 4 and 5 and thin it will load.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Serious problems with G76 cycle in Mach4 Lathe and CSMIO IP S

« on: April 16, 2020, 07:22:49 PM »

Where are you getting the index pulse from?

If from a sensor is it mounted to read from the main spindle?

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Return to current fixture after running gcode run

« on: April 16, 2020, 05:50:16 PM »

#4014 holds the current fixture offset

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Serious problems with G76 cycle in Mach4 Lathe and CSMIO IP S

« on: April 16, 2020, 05:48:39 PM »

Are you running on Servo or Stepper motors?

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Return to current fixture after running gcode run

« on: April 16, 2020, 05:32:20 PM »

Fixture offsets # numbers

#2501 = G54 X or #5221
#2601 = G54 Y or #5222
#2701 = G54 Z or #5223

#2502 = G55 X or #5241
#2602 = G55 Y or #5242
#2702 = G55 Z or #5243

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: mc.mcToolGetSelected(inst) issue In lathe mode

« on: April 15, 2020, 07:11:47 PM »

Call a tool in Lathe is T0202 , tool 2 offset 2

Call a tool in Mill T2 M6

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G-Code, CAD, and CAM discussions / Re: Plunge cut with end mill

« on: April 13, 2020, 12:23:40 PM »

Working from the large diameter and ramping in you can use none end cutting tool as the ramp angle is shallow that is why the gcode is written that way.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: zero axis within program

« on: April 12, 2020, 08:55:44 PM »

Depending on where you put it in the code if you have to stop the program and restart you could end up in the wrong place.

Its normally used in rotary axis work to zero out the indexer to stop unwinding.