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Mach Discussion => General Mach Discussion => Topic started by: chrisjh on October 17, 2009, 07:52:35 PM
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Hi,
I cannot get the G83 Peck Drilling routine to work. I have read "Topic: couple of things I have noticed with mach /g83 problem " and it appears that some can get it to work albeit with reported bugs relating to minimum peck distances.
I have tried in vain with the codes attached.
In desperation I hand coded the Centre Spot Drill Template_B which uses simple G01 and G00 movements. This works fine.
Where have I gone wrong with the G83 routines?
I am using the latest lockdown release of Mach3 Version R3.041 and SmoothStepper Plugin.
Regards
Chrisjh
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What is wrong when you try the G83?
Also the min peck bug as you call it is not a bug, it is just that the increments in the macro were such that if someone used abnormally small pecks over a long distance then the macro would run out of repeatss before the depth requested was reached. It is an easy fix to adjust the macro.
Hood
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Hi Hood,
The machine starts the spindle, moves to the start position, does not drill at all, then withdraws and stops.
I have also tried single step mode to see if I can see what happens block by block.
It behaves like Mach3 is not seeing the G83 Line of code at all.
Regards
Chrisjh
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can you attach your xml, also make sure you have the m1083 macro.
Hood
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Thanks Hood for taking the time to help sort this out. Very much appreciated!!
xml file as requested:
Regards
Chrisjh
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I solved the problem :D
For some unknown reason when I set up my profile for the laptop in my shed, the "macro" folder was missing a lot of files.
When I compared the contents of the "MachTurn" macro folder with my "chrisjh_turn_shed" folder there were a lot of files missing.
I copied the contents of MachTurn macro folder into "chrisjh_turn_shed" folder and fixed the problem. One of the many missing files was M1083.m1s which is why the peck drill routine did not work.
I don't understand how this happened as I started off with "MachTurn" profile and saved it as the new profile.
I tested to see if G83.1 mode works as described in the manual. It behaves the same as G83. I presume that this is because there in no M1083.1.m1s macro.
Chrisjh