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Screen designer tips and tutorials / Re: Very Cool LED/Button Combo

« on: March 04, 2009, 01:35:25 PM »

I used a ton of those on this screen. Well over 100 png's. There are no standard LED's in the set, everything is two state .png's
I added a "glow" effect so they look like they light up when on.
http://www.machsupport.com/forum/index.php/topic,10009.msg66106.html#msg66106

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Third party software and hardware support forums. / Re: problems getting started

« on: March 01, 2009, 05:01:12 PM »

Did you set up and assign all the parallel port pins? The DRO's won't do anything until all the axis are setup in ports and pins

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Motor/screw configuration?

« on: March 01, 2009, 01:37:58 PM »

5 start screws should be 4000 steps/inch.
Z axis should be 5080 steps/inch.

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G-Code, CAD, and CAM discussions / Re: This program will not run on Mach3

« on: February 28, 2009, 11:30:54 AM »

You need to attach the g-code, not the .dxf

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Works in progress / Re: One More All-In-One Milling Screen

« on: February 27, 2009, 10:17:22 PM »

Somethings not right there.

Where is your .set file? In the Mach3 folder?
Where are your bitmaps? In Mach3\bitmaps\screenset\  ?
Where is Screen4.exe? In the Mach3 folder?

I've never seen any of your problems.

I've even ran Screen4 and Mach3 at the same time. Screen4 will now when you edit scripts in Mach3 and prompt you to reload the screen with the updated scripts.

The way I see it, the scripts are saved by Mach3 when you save in the script editor window. They are part of the .set file.

The .set file is read when you start Mach3, and when you use View>Load Screen.

the .set file should be in the main Mach3 folder.

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Works in progress / Re: Scream4 Crashing!!

« on: February 27, 2009, 10:02:50 PM »

Can also shift-click them to select them.

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Works in progress / Re: One More All-In-One Milling Screen

« on: February 27, 2009, 09:10:21 PM »

Not what you want to hear, but I've used it for probably 50-70 hours in the last year and have never had it crash. good luck

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Works in progress / Re: One More All-In-One Milling Screen

« on: February 27, 2009, 07:00:40 PM »

I just use Operator>Edit button script, and do a File>Save in the script editor.

I think doing a View>Save Current Layout will save the whole screenset.

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Works in progress / Re: One More All-In-One Milling Screen

« on: February 27, 2009, 06:58:06 PM »

There are two LEDs that, supposedly, indicated G90 or G91 in effect.  But, in reality, only one of them actually works - the other is ALWAYS zero. 

Are you using 48 and 49? They work fine for me.

I must be pretty lucky, or your unlucky, because I haven't seen too many problems at all.

If you 'd like, I'll check it out and see if I can see what's wrong for ya.

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Works in progress / Re: One More All-In-One Milling Screen

« on: February 27, 2009, 05:52:31 PM »

Double check the codes, and check how your output pins are assigned. My "buttons" are the LEDS, with transparent buttons on top of them. They both work fine for me.

If you copy and paste buttons, you have to be careful. When making changes in the button dialog, I've noticed that if you change too many things at once, that all the changes don't take place. So I make my location changes and click OK, then go back and make the OEM Code changes.

It's possible that the OEM codes stayed the same when you thought you changed them.