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Works in progress / Re: Throwing together a simple Router Screen

« on: July 07, 2008, 11:17:01 AM »

The X Offset DRO on the settings page was wrong. I fixed it in the zip file. You can change it in Screen4 by right clicking it and setting it to OEM code 47. Or just download it again and copy the .set file.

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G-Code, CAD, and CAM discussions / Re: reset home with G code

« on: July 07, 2008, 10:39:56 AM »

Just read the manual's section on G28, it should explain it for you.

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Works in progress / Re: Throwing together a simple Router Screen

« on: July 07, 2008, 08:56:05 AM »

Sorry, missed a /

Try again.

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Works in progress / Re: Throwing together a simple Router Screen

« on: July 07, 2008, 08:47:16 AM »

OK, here it is, ready for testing. Extract the bitmaps (.png's) to Mach3\bitmaps\DualZ. Extract DualZ.set to the Mach3 folder.

Couple of things.

The LED in the Start button doesn't always work correctly, especially after pausing and stopping.

The second spindle is actually set to spindle CCW, so you can't use both at the same time without changing the button functions.

You'll need to setup Mach3'3 outputs to match what I have here, or you'll need to change button functions.

Spindle 1 is Output #1, assigned to spindle CW
Spindle 2 is Output #2, assigned to spindle CCW
Coolant1 is Output #3, assigned to Mist.
Coolant2 is Output #4, assigned to Flood

For the hide menu to be persistent when closing and restarting, you'll need to turn it off in General Config first.

To change the Park position, edit the button script to your liking, it's just two lines of g-code, but you can add more if you want.

Home all button homes Z first, then X and Y together. Edit button script to change.

Swap axis swaps Z for C.

The Auto Zero buttons need to VB script code. They are not doing anything now.

I don't have any way to check the Home /Limits LED's, since I have no machine right now to test them with. Let me know if they work correctly.

Enjoy.

Edit. It won't let me attach it here for some reason, so here it is, http://tinyurl.com/6867lz

Edit. Fixed link

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G-Code, CAD, and CAM discussions / Re: reset home with G code

« on: July 06, 2008, 11:09:00 PM »

G28 will home the machine, and if you add coordinates to the G28, it'll rapid to those coordinates before homing.

G28 X1 Y1

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G-Code, CAD, and CAM discussions / Re: reset home with G code

« on: July 06, 2008, 10:24:41 PM »

G00 Z1 might be better.

However, if you want the machine to actually home to home switches, use G28.

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Works in progress / Re: Throwing together a simple Router Screen

« on: July 06, 2008, 12:29:27 PM »

I added some stuff to the Settings page. I think I need to add an MPG axis select button and LED's, but that should be it. I'll need to tuck them in there somewhere.

You can see the space I'm getting at the bottom with the menu off.

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Works in progress / Re: Throwing together a simple Router Screen

« on: July 06, 2008, 09:57:41 AM »

Tried inreasing the height of the background in screen4, and it doesn't change anything. Although if different screens have different size background images, the locations are all based on the largest ones. I have my images sized to 1024x768 (they're 1280x1024 .pngs) in Sceen4. I changed one to 1024x800, and the smaller ones had a larger gap at the bottom, but the 1024 x 800 still had the same gap at the bottom.

So unless this can be fixed, turning off the menu doesn't gain anything, other than maybe some security.

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Works in progress / Re: Throwing together a simple Router Screen

« on: July 06, 2008, 09:31:36 AM »

when you hide your menu buttons then goto
Under General, tick or untick the "Auto Screen Enlarge"


scott

You can't, it's hidden. It is checked, though. The only thing I can do, is turn on the menu, go to config, turn off auto enlarge. Restart Mach, go to config. Turn off menu, turn on auto enlarge. Restart. Menu is gone, but space on the bottom is there.

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Works in progress / Re: Throwing together a simple Router Screen

« on: July 06, 2008, 08:45:21 AM »

If I hide the menu bar using my buttons (or using general config), the screen moves up, but doesn't fill the bottom. Is there a fix for this, other than making the screen bigger? I wish I'd have known this, because I don't have the time to go back and move everything.

EDIT: I was thinking I needed to redo the whole thing in RealDraw Pro, but I think I can just in increase the size in Screen4. Since I'm using a single background image with invisible button images, I'll just need to move or stretch the button images a little.

On another note, in the next few days I'll relabel the buttons and create a more generic screen without the two Z axis, which would probably work better for 99% of the users out there. I'll release that one when it's ready.

Any feature requests should be made now, before I do it. I'll be changing about 5 buttons on the Run screen, and can add 1 or two (three?) more. And I can add some stuff to the settings screen if anyone needs anything else.