Hello Chad, and Everyone.
I'm a new Mach3 user, and I must thank a few of you who have already helped me do some screen editing and to get through the very basics of assigning macro code to buttons. I had no idea Mach3 was so customizable.
About me? An Electrical Engineer who's become a machinist. I make custom scientific and medical devices. My shop consists of 6 lathes, one of which is a lathe/mill. I have Mach3 on only one of them, a Schaublin 70. Two others are CNC, a Citizen B12, and a EMCO Super 11. The Citizen has a FANUC controller, and the EMCO I outfitted with an old Centroid CNC controller. I also have a little SIEG lathe to which I'll definitely add Mach 3 someday.
For some reason, I didn't get the native screen designer installed (the one referenced in "Customizing Mach 2". There seems to be some little snags in documentation, for example the PDF I jut referenced, "Customizing Mach 2" I assume is current for Mach 3 and just hadn't had the title updated yet. In any case, instead of the native scren designer, I'm using MachScreen by Klaus Dietrich,
http://www.kd-dietz.com/klausphp/index_eng.html and it's working quite well.
I read someplace VB in MAch3 is in transition from CB (Cypress Basic) to something else. Any comments on the general direction of that move and the thinking behind it? Then there is this 'mach brain'....the topics alone are a hoot. "Brain this", and "Brain that". Gotta appreciate the brain humor, but what is the idea behind of having different brains? They seem like logic which is specific to a particular hardware environment? Something between the hardware and VB script? Sort of a gray-matter firmware? Broad overviews of some of these big projects would be nice to put all this into context.
Well gang, I'm off to make another button do something. I hope I can contribute to this group someday, the kernel ArtSoft brings to the DIY (Do It Yourself) world is incredibly powerful, and it's fun and fantastic to have tools like this to play with.
JB_52