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Mach Discussion => General Mach Discussion => Topic started by: Keith on April 08, 2006, 04:15:53 PM

Title: Mach3 buttons
Post by: Keith on April 08, 2006, 04:15:53 PM

Is 'Feed Hold' in Mach3 the same as 'pause'(in Mach2)?
And 'Reverse Run' is this like doing a 'climbing mill' cut of what you were otherwise 'cutting normally' using the g-code that is loaded in the 'program run' page?-Keith

Title: Re: Mach3 buttons
Post by: Brian Barker on April 08, 2006, 05:52:14 PM

Pause = FeedHold
and Reverse is used to run the program in reverse... when you are running a Gcode program press feedhold and rather than pressing cycle start press the revers run button. the machine will go back over where it had come from.

Title: Re: Mach3 buttons
Post by: Keith on April 08, 2006, 07:00:02 PM

Thanks Brian,so I guess without some messing around with the code,I can't use the reverse run to do like a 'finish pass' in the opposite direction the major cut takes place(since ,for instance,the last few lines include a rapid plane above the piece and that's where the last x and y would be cutting).-Keith

Title: Re: Mach3 buttons
Post by: Brian Barker on April 08, 2006, 07:31:06 PM

It was put in for the plasma people... But you may find some cool thinks to use it for :)