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Mach Discussion => General Mach Discussion => Topic started by: juandres666 on February 19, 2012, 01:42:51 AM
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I need to program a pic 18f4550 to control a stepper motors, How can I control from MACH3?
Help me please. It is for the college thesis for my little brother!
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If wanting to use Mach with anything other than the parallel port you wil need to write a plugin.
Hood
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Thank you for your reply! :)
How can I do it???
If you say me that so modbus serial/ethernet dont work with motors? My brother say me that we can control with serial port and a little commands.
Help me please.
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I need to program a pic 18f4550 to control a stepper motors, How can I control from MACH3?
Help me please. It is for the college thesis for my little brother!
Why do you want to control the steppers with a Pic AND Mach - that will be like an orchestra with two conductors ?
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You would need to write a plugin, modbus/serial is no use for controlling axis as it does not have the precise timing required. There is a plugin SDK on the downloads page I think.
Hood
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Why do you want to control the steppers with a Pic AND Mach - that will be like an orchestra with two conductors ?
Why do you say that??? The PIC is the interface between MACH3 and motors because the computer does not have a parallel port (touch smart). I want to use USB. ETHERNET is better.
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You would need to write a plugin, modbus/serial is no use for controlling axis as it does not have the precise timing required. There is a plugin SDK on the downloads page I think.
Hood
Thank you for your reply :)
Would you help me with the plugin develop? How can I design that?
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I am afraid I do not know anything about writing plugins.
Hood