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General Mach Discussion / Re: Please Help!!

« on: August 09, 2014, 08:49:20 PM »

Any pics of the cut? Are you just looking for better cut quality?
What kind of machine?

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 Printer Port Discussions

« on: August 09, 2014, 01:38:47 PM »

For anyone testing and finding their motor mappings and settings gone... Ive noticed if you reboot
all your settings come back..

Art

Not here they didn't. Enabling them gave me a crash.
When I went to run the DarwinTest, I noticed that the entire Darwin2014-1-11 folder that I had extracted into mach4Hobby was gone.
Extracted a new copy, ran DarwinTest, and got:
Another instance of Darwin is already running, followed by a crash of DarwinTest, while Mach4gui continued to chug along in the background, impervious to everything but a hard reboot.

Is there any chance that Darwin is messing with my DVD drive? It was working fine the other day, but when I just went to use it, it's not there. Device manager says Windows can't find it.
Removing it and rebooting, had Windows find and install it, and then proceed to tell me that it can't find it.
Time to finally move away from XP. Just need to save another $1500 for my next 7 year PC.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: How do you alter the number of decimal places the DROs show?

« on: August 09, 2014, 01:04:57 PM »

Any .set file screenset

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 Printer Port Discussions

« on: August 09, 2014, 01:04:09 PM »

No luck with Darwin 1.11 - the stuttering while jogging or rapids in Mach4 are still there.  Homing while referencing axis moves smoothly, but that's all Darwin there.  No crashes for me.

-Freeman

Do you have anything else running? I saw similar behavior with Firefox running.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: How do you alter the number of decimal places the DROs show?

« on: August 09, 2014, 12:21:17 PM »

http://www.machsupport.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Screen4.zip

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 Printer Port Discussions

« on: August 09, 2014, 12:07:01 PM »

Just started Mach4 again, and motors are not enabled again.
It hasn't crashed, but I'm afraid to enable them, because I don't want to reboot right now.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 Printer Port Discussions

« on: August 09, 2014, 11:25:39 AM »

I also fixed my previous issue with the machine.ini file by editing out the extra SpindMax entry. I guess it got messed up during one of the crashes?

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 Printer Port Discussions

« on: August 09, 2014, 11:24:41 AM »

Scratch my previous issue. Looks like Firefox was interfering with Darwin big time. Closed Firefox after posting, and motion became very smooth, and the Buffer error was gone. Perhaps having 25 tabs open in Firefox has it's disadvantages, especially in XP.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 Printer Port Discussions

« on: August 09, 2014, 11:12:37 AM »

Then loaded g-code, and when I clicked Run, I got a:

Darwin Buffer Error - Motion out of bounds.

This happens in the same place every time, after the initial Z move.

After re-enabling, Cycle Start jumps ahead about 20 lines and runs through the rest of the g-code.

I don't have a machine hooked up, but motion is very erratic. On a long rapid move, the feedrate is jumping all over the place, and it's visible on the toolpath display. Happens on G1 moves as well. With a feedrate of 75ipm, I'm seeing feedrates down to 1, jumping around everywhere in between 1 and 75.

Tried jogging from Mach4, and I'm seeing the same erratic feedrates. CPU usage is in the 5-8% range.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 Printer Port Discussions

« on: August 09, 2014, 11:03:00 AM »

Hi Art
just lost all the motor enable settings in mach after a mach restart
Bob

Same here, but they stuck the second time.

Then loaded g-code, and when I clicked Run, I got a:

Darwin Buffer Error - Motion out of bounds.