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Mach Discussion => General Mach Discussion => Topic started by: DICKEYBIRD on July 17, 2013, 03:00:35 PM

Title: How to install a wizard?
Post by: DICKEYBIRD on July 17, 2013, 03:00:35 PM

This week's Mach turn bucket list is down to one thing.  Got threading going fairly well and parting-off working great thanks to Hood's tutelage about G94/G95.  #3 on the list is peck drilling.

I ran across this post http://www.machsupport.com/forum/index.php/topic,16533.0.html and the wizard contained therein looks like it will work for me.  I downloaded & unzipped the files but danged if I know how to install them.  Anyone have any advice on how to make it work?

Title: Re: How to install a wizard?
Post by: Hood on July 17, 2013, 04:38:01 PM

place them in the Turn Addons folder.
Hood

Title: Re: How to install a wizard?
Post by: DICKEYBIRD on July 17, 2013, 05:36:03 PM

Thanks!  Must've done something wrong though, I get "error ->.set file missing"

Title: Re: How to install a wizard?
Post by: budman68 on July 17, 2013, 06:04:20 PM

Did you possibly forget to unzip it first?

Dave

Title: Re: How to install a wizard?
Post by: DICKEYBIRD on July 17, 2013, 06:32:49 PM

Quote from: budman68 on July 17, 2013, 06:04:20 PM

Did you possibly forget to unzip it first?

I've been known to be in hurry at times but I've never forgotten to unzip first.:D

The files don't have a .zip extension on them so I think they were successfully extracted.  I'm going to wait 'til I get home from work & try it again on the PC that's actually connected to the lathe.  I have the same version of mach installed here at work with the .xml from the shop PC so it should work but who knows, something may be corrupted.

Title: Re: How to install a wizard?
Post by: budman68 on July 17, 2013, 07:47:09 PM

 :D

When I downloaded the add on, it was definitely a zip file so please check that as it may be the issue.

Dave

Title: Re: How to install a wizard?
Post by: DICKEYBIRD on July 17, 2013, 09:01:29 PM

Thanks Dave, the downloaded files were definitely zipped & I had extracted them OK.  The problem was there were too many folders.  Once I figured out which folder was needed, I deleted what wasn't needed & dragged the correct one over to AddOns.  Then it worked fine.

Thanks again!

Title: Re: How to install a wizard?
Post by: budman68 on July 18, 2013, 04:57:11 AM

Not sure what you mean about too many folders. Yesterday when you had this issue, I downloaded it myself, extracted it, and put it in the add-ons folder, and it worked perfectly.

Wonder what you're getting with too many folders?

Dave

Title: Re: How to install a wizard?
Post by: DICKEYBIRD on July 18, 2013, 09:43:16 AM

Probably something I was doing wrong but if I remember right it created a folder named Drill Wizard 1.3 with a subfolder Turn Add Ons and inside that was the folder I needed Drilling(Lathe)  The first couple of tries I drug the whole Drill Wizard 1.3 folder into the TurnAddons folder in Mach & I got the error.

No biggie, it's working now, thanks! ;D

Title: Re: How to install a wizard?
Post by: budman68 on July 18, 2013, 09:51:38 AM

 :)