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Mach Discussion => Mach4 General Discussion => Topic started by: Overloaded on January 14, 2018, 08:52:44 AM
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Hi Folks,
I'm considering Mach4 Lathe for an upcoming project.
Downloaded the current 4.2.3481 hobby, demo.
The Mill will open and run but the Lathe will not. It attempts to start through loading the wizards, then a brief blink of a window and then it shuts down.
Anyone else using this version of Lathe ?
Thanks,
Russ
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Try creating a new profile using the lathe screen and see what happens. IIRC the same thing happened to me.
Mike
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OK, that worked.
Thanks Mike.
Russ
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Then I config for Lathe Mode.
Restart, then the same thing happens.
Loads through the canned cycles, blinks and shuts down.
Not starting off very well. :P
My laptop is a little weak, 1.4GHz processor 768MB Ram , but Mill seems to run OK.
Any other suggestions ?
Thanks.
:)
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The canned cycle stuff in lathe has a lot of images. I'm guessing the PC is not up to the task. Might want to try industrial. I don't think the default in it includes the canned cycle stuff.
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Hi Brett,
All of them loaded OK, can select the lathe screen and they are all there, can open them all.
The new lathe profile creation worked well ... until I selected LAthe mode in the config.
At restart, all loads up, then I think its a blink of a debug screen of sorts and immediate shutdown.
Then I cannot restart, message says "already running". Have to shut it dwn w/device mgr. then try again ..... same thing.
Guess I might have to wait for a better pc.
Thanks again,
Russ
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Might want to try industrial. I don't think the default in it includes the canned cycle stuff.
This is true.
All else looks good though.
Looks like what JD was running at the show.
Very nice !
Thanks.
:)