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Third party software and hardware support forums. => Newfangled Solutions Mach3 Wizards => Topic started by: MachineMan66 on January 04, 2016, 08:47:53 PM
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I bought the license last year, now today it won't let me write over 20k lines in the digitize wizard. Are licenses timed? Do I have to purchase yearly?
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The digitize wizard is not part of the newfangled suite. I really dont know anything about the digitize wizard.
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I bought the license last year, now today it won't let me write over 20k lines in the digitize wizard. Are licenses timed? Do I have to purchase yearly?
Which license did you buy ??
Tweakie.
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They Mach3 software license. It said it would open it to unlimited coding. When I first got it, I could run the digitizer at .025 steps, some 70k lines of code. Now the smallest I can do is .05 steps. The digitizer wizard comes installed in Mach3. If I would of known I would have to buy another license for another app I wouldn't of made the purchase. I can't keep buying licenses I'm not going to use.
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The Mach3 license is good for 10,000,000 lines of code. The Digitize wizard does NOT have a code limit nor does it require another license. oBviously you have done something wrong in programing the wizard IF you are expecting more lines of code. Post the parameters that you used and I will try it here to see if it limits it here.
Chances are good that whatever you programed into the wizard does not require as many lines of code as you think.
IF you appose to buying licenses you may want to take up programing , but that is not free either.
(;-) TP
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X = 5.5 in. Y = 2.75 in. Z height .9 in. Z 0, X step .05 Y step .05 step speed 25 in min. It equals around 18k lines. When I start it. It allows me to save to a file name, if I change the step spacing to .04 is jumps to 28k lines and will not allow me to save to a file name, just starts the machine.
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i have tested it here and do not find anything wrong with it. You open the Wizard then fill in the values then create the code and return to mACH3 . THE CODE IS THERE ready to run all 16,000+ lines. I then reopen the wizard put in the changed values and create the code and return to Mach3 and the new code is there ready to run. All 28,000+ lines.
I then did it again and created the code and it was in Mach3 as well all 3,000,008 lines.
(;-) TP
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So is there a setting somewhere that controls file size?
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The file size is controlled by teh size of teh object being scanned and teh resolution of teh scan. The smaller teh stepover the larger the file and the larger the object the larger the file.
(;-) TP
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So I dont get, why is it not letting me save the file if it is over 20k lines, when I hit the start, it just starts the machine. If its under 20k lines, it opens the save as window and asks for a file name. There has to be something wrong in software.
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I think it is unlikely to be the software (but anything is possible).
Can you think of anything you have done to your PC between the time it was working Ok and now ??
Is your PC memory up to par ?? Have you tested it for errors ??
Tweakie.
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The wizard will NOT give you ANY option for you to save the file. To save the file you must do that from Mach3 . With the file loaded you use edit Gcode and then Save as.
(;-) TP
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So I dont get, why is it not letting me save the file if it is over 20k lines, when I hit the start, it just starts the machine. If its under 20k lines, it opens the save as window and asks for a file name. There has to be something wrong in software.
When you exit the wizard, notice that sometimes the file that is automatically loaded into Mach3 may not be rewound to the beginning.
Click Rewind.
Then when you hit Cycle Start, it will prompt you for where to save the file.
Works here,
Russ
:)
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It needs to see the M40 at the start.
Otherwise, the file will just run from where it's at.
The smaller files load and rewind, but the larger ones, for some odd reason, do not completely rewind after the toolpath generation.
R3-043-062
Russ
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That odd here the large files always start at the top IF you give it enough time to completely load and make it thru post test of the code. I just did another 3,000,000 + line file to test. That file took a while to create and a while to load and be ready to run but it started at the top. There IS a pause when it has loaded but still working on the posttest of teh Gcode and may look like it is done but it was not.
Try it again to see IF you wait it will eventually rewind to start.
(;-) TP
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could be memory related ? like Tweakie mentioned earlier ?
mine always completes loading, but never starts bigger files at the top.
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Thought it might be related to the toolpath display.
Turned it off and get the exact same results with the same file.
157570 lines load completely, then it begins on line 4002.
Rewind before Cycle Start and all is good.
Weird.
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Ran another test today, the rewind works, I hit start and it gave me the save as box with 56k lines. But I think as someone said ram might be part of the problem. Im running a P4, w/ 4g ram. Might be time to get something with more performance. Thanks guys for the help.