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Mach Discussion => Mach4 General Discussion => Topic started by: robertspark on October 10, 2015, 04:48:59 AM

Title: ShuttleXpress Plugin
Post by: robertspark on October 10, 2015, 04:48:59 AM

Hello,

May I ask, any chance of a Shuttle Xpress plugin (or is the "pro" plugin version able to be used with the shuttle Xpress?)

Rob

Title: Re: ShuttleXpress Plugin
Post by: Pedio on October 12, 2015, 08:53:21 AM

Not sure if it will work. It is easy enough to test - even in Demo mode. Plug it in and activate the plug in. The center knobs are already programmed. See if they make it move. You will likely need all / most of the available buttons for axis control. The Shuttle Pro has just enough buttons to make it a pretty good pendant.

Title: Re: ShuttleXpress Plugin
Post by: Pedio on October 12, 2015, 08:53:39 AM

Also, let us know if it works with your test.

Title: Re: ShuttleXpress Plugin
Post by: robertspark on October 12, 2015, 09:07:42 AM

Yeah, I plugged it in (without windows drivers loaded... Same as mach3, where it does work (I am running a dual setup)), enabled the plugin (via plugins),

And pressed all 5 buttons, and the inner and outer scroll wheel and it did nothing (no pop-up or acknowledgement it even exists)

Restart Mach 3 and it functions perfectly.

Windows XP machine

Rob

Title: Re: ShuttleXpress Plugin
Post by: Pedio on October 12, 2015, 01:46:04 PM

I have the the driver loaded and my ShuttlePro works.

Title: Re: ShuttleXpress Plugin
Post by: robertspark on October 12, 2015, 01:47:22 PM

I am using the shuttle xpress not the pro

Title: Re: ShuttleXpress Plugin
Post by: Pedio on October 13, 2015, 09:00:33 AM

Did you try loading the driver for the shuttle express? If that does not work try loading the driver for the shuttlePro. The shuttlepro is working on my machine, but I have the driver for the shuttlepro loaded.

In fact, I had done some testing prior to loading a working shuttlepro plugin for Mach4. When I loaded the plugin I still had some of the keystroke commands in the Shuttlepro. The machine would execute both commands at the same time when the button/wheel was selected. That made life very interesting!!!! For instance the X and Y axis would move at the same time.

Title: Re: ShuttleXpress Plugin
Post by: robertspark on October 13, 2015, 09:54:16 AM

Thanks I'll give it a go