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Title: Mach3 freezes afterloading g-code/toolpath graphics
Post by: jcash562 on February 26, 2020, 05:27:54 PM
hey guys, im using basic old school style lathe screensets in mach3, with cs/labs on a PC with windows 7 pro 64-bit.
About 70% of the time when i load G-code it freezes as soon as tool path graphics is finished loading, and its bar graph pop up window goes away. I get a "not responding" error from windows and Mach3 completely crashes, have to restart.
The 30% of the time it does load, system runs great though.
Any ideas or pointers?
Title: Re: Mach3 freezes afterloading g-code/toolpath graphics
Post by: TPS on February 27, 2020, 04:00:56 AM
witch Version of Mach3 are you using?
Title: Re: Mach3 freezes afterloading g-code/toolpath graphics
Post by: jcash562 on February 27, 2020, 04:09:44 PM
Version R3.043.066
Title: Re: Mach3 freezes afterloading g-code/toolpath graphics
Post by: TPS on February 28, 2020, 02:44:37 AM
try to use 043.62 or even 043.22 witch is recomended by CSLAB.

patched 043.62: https://www.machsupport.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Mach3Version3.043.exe

043.22: ftp://anonymous:guest@ftp.machsupport.com/Mach3/Mach3Version3.043.022.exe
Title: Re: Mach3 freezes afterloading g-code/toolpath graphics
Post by: jcash562 on February 28, 2020, 09:05:13 AM
thank you, ill give it a shot and kee pyou posted
Title: Re: Mach3 freezes afterloading g-code/toolpath graphics
Post by: jcash562 on February 28, 2020, 05:37:29 PM
Well, i gave it a go, but no such luck. Still freezes.
I did notice 1 additional thing though. It only does it if im on a screen that displays tool graphics (auto or manual)
If i do it from the opening screen works everytime without flaws.
Any other ideas? im using the basic 1024.lset screens
Title: Re: Mach3 freezes afterloading g-code/toolpath graphics
Post by: TPS on February 29, 2020, 02:58:59 AM
can you post your gcode for a test?
Title: Re: Mach3 freezes afterloading g-code/toolpath graphics
Post by: jcash562 on March 25, 2020, 09:17:53 AM
Here is the G-code, machine finally gave me an error msg "art code 709" no description. Rebooted system, no error codes but it would still freeze up when graphics are near loaded. As a wild idea i reloaded the 1024.lset file and it started loading without freezing, but then it did something else odd. on the line of code "X.585" it repeats it for a large amount of times. attached pics. any words of advise?
Title: Re: Mach3 freezes afterloading g-code/toolpath graphics
Post by: TPS on March 25, 2020, 09:47:06 AM
pls post the complete file.
Title: Re: Mach3 freezes afterloading g-code/toolpath graphics
Post by: jcash562 on March 27, 2020, 03:08:43 PM
Please see attached.
Title: Re: Mach3 freezes afterloading g-code/toolpath graphics
Post by: TPS on March 27, 2020, 03:40:04 PM
i have loaded/run your program without any Problem.
so maybe someone else can do the same test. pls.