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Mach Discussion => Mach4 General Discussion => Topic started by: mjohnson on May 13, 2016, 03:37:06 AM

Title: Mach4 Axis Calibration...
Post by: mjohnson on May 13, 2016, 03:37:06 AM

I saw some discussion about Mach4 not having the same calibration wizard to calibrate your axis steps that Mach3 has. Those discussions are a year old now, did that ever get implemented into Mach4?

Title: Re: Mach4 Axis Calibration...
Post by: royce on May 13, 2016, 07:13:01 AM

No, and from what I heard it won't be. Its more or so a mechanical equation with no calibrating needed, ez pz leon squeezy. Daz did put up a video on youtube of configuring motors in Mach4 .

Title: Re: Mach4 Axis Calibration...
Post by: mjohnson on May 13, 2016, 09:52:04 AM

Thanks Royce, a search in Youtube did not seem to return a Mach4 calibration video, do you happen to have a link to it? I found a link in a thread but it was broken.

Title: Re: Mach4 Axis Calibration...
Post by: royce on May 13, 2016, 09:57:03 AM

Here you go. https://youtu.be/HIE0k6mu2yc?t=9m45s He is using ESS but the axis setup configuration is modified in Mach 4, not the plugin.

Title: Re: Mach4 Axis Calibration...
Post by: bob_at_pmdx on May 13, 2016, 10:14:35 AM

In case people want other helpful videos, a reminder that this link is the one referenced in the "Mach4 Videos" sub-section of this forum under the title "ESS and Mach4 Setup" here:

https://www.machsupport.com/forum/index.php/topic,29878.0.html

Title: Re: Mach4 Axis Calibration...
Post by: brummettm58 on August 24, 2017, 07:49:58 PM

Did you get an update on the missing calibration issue?  Everything is old that I can find.

Title: Re: Mach4 Axis Calibration...
Post by: Mauri on August 24, 2017, 11:48:29 PM

Hi,
There is a Wizard in Mach4 "StepPerUnitCalculatorBasic".
Regards,
Mauri

Title: Re: Mach4 Axis Calibration...
Post by: gorf23 on August 30, 2017, 09:34:29 AM

  CountsPerUnit, rc = mc.mcProfileGetDouble(inst,"Motor0", "CountsPerUnit", 2000.0) 

this works for changing the CountsPerUnit but if you only want to read the CountsPerUnit to a variable
how would that be done?

Thanks gary

Title: Re: Mach4 Axis Calibration...
Post by: Mauri on September 06, 2017, 10:10:03 PM

gorf23,
This is my version of Ball Screw Calibration for Mach4.
Regards,
Mauri.

Title: Re: Mach4 Axis Calibration...
Post by: gorf23 on September 08, 2017, 05:57:05 PM

that looks good thanks

Do you have the code to write and read from and to the proper position of the ini file?

Thanks gary