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Mach Discussion => General Mach Discussion => Topic started by: bdavison on March 01, 2018, 02:54:46 PM

Title: G4 Dwell time only reading whole numbers
Post by: bdavison on March 01, 2018, 02:54:46 PM

Whether I have .1 seconds or .9 seconds as my dwelll my machine is pausing for the same amount of time. This is also true for when I have 1 second or 1.9 seconds for my dwell. It seems to be only reading whole numbers. Also, I tried switching to milliseconds in general config but even with milliseconds selected it is still reading the values for the dwell as seconds. Can anybody help me? Is there some setting I have to change somewhere?
Thank you,
Beau

Title: Re: G4 Dwell time only reading whole numbers
Post by: Tweakie.CNC on March 02, 2018, 02:06:18 AM

After you have selected G04 Dwell in mS close Mach3 then restart.

Tweakie.

Title: Re: G4 Dwell time only reading whole numbers
Post by: bdavison on March 13, 2019, 10:57:44 AM

Tried it couldn't get it to take milliseconds. What we ended up doing is using and inverse feed rate value to tell it to move a certain increment over a certain time, then it was able to take decimals.
For example
G0 Z2
G1 Z2.001 F240

60/240 = .25 seconds, so it would take .25 seconds to move .001 (2-2.001)