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Mach Discussion => General Mach Discussion => Topic started by: buzz9075 on October 16, 2014, 08:02:27 AM

Title: M3 not working
Post by: buzz9075 on October 16, 2014, 08:02:27 AM

I need to copy an configuration xml file to a new name for example 540b.xml to Buzz4x8.xml.  Only when i do this everything seems to work but the M3 function (I suspect more but this is all I see for now).  I copied the macro\540b to macro\buzz4x8 but it does not seem to get it working either.  Any idea what I need to do to get the new xml working?

Title: Re: M3 not working
Post by: Vogavt on October 16, 2014, 07:57:03 PM

There's an xml file viewer on the net that allows you to to compare xml's.  
Do a Google search, download it and compare the files you've listed or read this (http://www.machsupport.com/forum/index.php/topic,9561.0.html) thread for starters.

Then report back if necessary.

Look at post #36 too in the above thread and get Klaus' program.

Cheers,
Vogavt

Title: Re: M3 not working
Post by: buzz9075 on October 16, 2014, 09:51:30 PM

They are identical files, I copied one file to the other file... was I supposed to be looking for something in the file.

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Post by: Vogavt on October 17, 2014, 04:49:11 AM

Sorry I wasn't clear. I've made copies before as well that didn't work. Strange as it is. My thoughts were to compare the two and see what was different from the working file to the nonworking one.

Title: Re: M3 not working
Post by: dude1 on October 17, 2014, 04:55:39 AM

use notepad ++ it useful for reading meany different types of files its a good tool to have

Title: Re: M3 not working
Post by: buzz9075 on October 17, 2014, 05:05:30 PM

When I copy the files I do a fc (file compare against the two files) and it returns they are the same.   IMO it has something to do with renaming the file to Buzz4x8.xml.

Title: Re: M3 not working
Post by: dude1 on October 17, 2014, 05:34:51 PM

have you tried copying M3 from 540.b profile to your new profile

Title: Re: M3 not working
Post by: buzz9075 on October 18, 2014, 12:39:11 PM

When u say copy m3 540b to my new profile what is my new profile? Where do I find if. This sounds like what I am looking for as my problem

Title: Re: M3 not working
Post by: Hood on October 18, 2014, 02:28:49 PM

There is a macro folder for each profile you have. If you create a new profile then when you first open it Mach will create a macro folder for it with default macros.
You will find it in C:\Mach3\Macros\  and it will have the name of your profile.

Hood

Title: Re: M3 not working
Post by: buzz9075 on October 18, 2014, 02:36:02 PM

Thanks that is what I thought so I manually created a directory call macros\buzz4x8 and copied all of the contents for 540b into it.  I thought this would make things right.  Am I doing it right?

Title: Re: M3 not working
Post by: buzz9075 on October 18, 2014, 02:38:28 PM

Ah I think I am understand mach3 will create the folder based on what it is thinking and I need to determine which one it is using it may not be what I was expecting it to be of buzz8x4

Title: Re: M3 not working
Post by: Hood on October 18, 2014, 02:39:10 PM

If you start Mach with a new profile it will automatically create the macro folder, if however you have previously created that folder then Mach will see it is present and will not create a new one :)
Hood

Title: Re: M3 not working
Post by: Hood on October 18, 2014, 02:40:27 PM

The macro folder will be named exactly after your profiles name, so if you had a 12345.xml then when you started it Mach would create a macro folder called 12345

Hood

Title: Re: M3 not working
Post by: buzz9075 on October 18, 2014, 02:44:14 PM

Thanks I will review what I have done again as I have done what we have discuss. Thanks for confirming