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Mach Discussion => Mach4 General Discussion => Topic started by: Fwibb on April 28, 2023, 12:01:16 PM
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I set my cycling to be as follows:
https://i.imgur.com/zm9LurF.png
I never use the 1" travel, so I turned it off.
However, when I push the increment button in the jog section of Mach4, I still get it to cycle 1,0.1,0.01,0.001,0.0001. I will have two complete cycles of what I put in to the options in the image above, and then I have a full cycle of the default values, then back to my cycle. No idea where to change this.
Thanks!
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I'd try entering something other than zero in all fields, repeat as necessary to fill all the fields with something. Not sure if that'll work or not.
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Hi,
I filled all increment slots.
I used to have 1mm and 0.5mm as the largest increments but both caused 'after-run' where the machine would carry on even once I had stopped spinning the MPG.
This was because the increments were 'stacking up' faster than the machine could consume them. Reducing the maximum increment to 0.1mm solved it, now I can spin the
MPG as fast as I like WITHOUT suffering any, or at least any major, after-run.
This left the quandry, what do I do with those other increments? As you can see I filled them with the same numbers, just repeats. It works.
I notice that most people,and for many years that included me, would have increments spaced by a factor of ten eg 1, 0.1,0.01,0.001,0.0001.
I found those steps to coarse. If I was touching off, 0.1mm was a bit coarse and I could not define an edge with the level of accuracy that I would like, however
if I went to 0.01mm touching off seemed to take an age. A five fold increase in resolution, or even a doubling in resolution is more practical in my opinion.
Craig