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Third party software and hardware support forums. => Newfangled Solutions Mach3 Wizards => Topic started by: Pegasus on July 09, 2006, 12:55:10 PM
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Brian,
I know your soliciting suggestions so let me throw this one out there:
On the existing wizards that use drilling (Rectangular Hole Pattern and Holes Around A Circle come to mind) how difficult would it be to specify Circular Pockets instead of a straight drilling operation?
This would allow the same wizards to be used with bits that are too small to drill the hole by themselves.
Thanks,
Pegasus
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I think this is doable but it is going to take some time ... I am working on LazyCam at this point but hope to have time in a few months or so...
Thank you
Brian
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dear members,
I'm a newby trying out the newfangled wizzards.
All the hole related wizzards doesnot work
on the circular hole pattern the error is error on line 33 type mismatch
on the linear hole pattern the error is error on line 29 type mismatch
on the drill hole position the error is error on line 42 type mismatch
All the other wizzards work!
Any idea what goes wrong??
It you be so kind to answer
Andre
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Can you tell me more about the error? They work OK for me.
What other setting are you using? number of holes, diameter, etc. Also which hole type- peck, drill, did you select?
Which button do you pres to see the error.
ron ginger
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Ron,
I have changed as little as possible
but for instance:
material selction steel hard max spindle rate 4000 max feed rate 100.0 units inch so default values
then continue
circular hole pattern
surface speed for special tool 1.0 ft/min tool 4 tooel dia 0.1250 HSS number of cutting tips 4
chip load per tooth 0.0009 inches spindle direction CW Flood Overrides 100% Feed 0% percent plung feed rate 50 spped 764 rpm feed rate 2.8
continue
Z center 5.0000 Y center +0.0000 5 holes Circle diameter +20.000 start angle +0.000 drill G81
rapid height +0.1250 Peck depth -0.2500 Hole depth -1.000
Preview
error showing
Mach3Scripts
error on line :33 -type mismatch
after OK
the erro script opens
after closing
Save changes to HiddenScript.m1s?
No
Then cancel exit and the main screeni sshowin the folowing code:
G0 G49 G40.1 G17 G80 G50 G90
G20 (inch)
M5 M9
M30
Thats all
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It works for me with those same values, but there are a couple strange things. You have feed set to 0%, that shuould generate an error when you try to calculate the feed and speed. It also seems strange that you have a Special Surface Feed of only 1 ft/min.
But none of these should cause you to see a VB error.
If you use the Post Code button does that work?
What version are you using? the Wizard should show its version on the first screen.
ron ginger
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Ron,
if I remove both the Z=0 and Q=0 sentences from the VB script it seems to work.
Can i safely remove them?
Kind regards,
Andre
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Which wizard are you running? The Newfangled Solutions wizards are supposed to be password protected so you cant see the VB code.
Can you cut the VB code and paste it here so I can see the code you are looking at- then I can be sure what wizard we are trying to fix.
ron ginger
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Ron,
I send you the wizzard which is a newfangled wizzard.
Are you able to react already?
kind regards,
Andre
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Sorry, but I have not received any more information on this problem. Can you post the section of the VB code you have trouble with to this forum.
ron ginger
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Here is the word file
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Ok, That is the code for the preview button of the hole circle wizard. It is the correct code.
I have run this wizard several times, with your numbers, and it has never given me an error.
Line 33 is checking the Q value, which will be the peck depth to be sure it is not zero. You said you entered -.250, which should pass the test. The number is taken form a DRO, which can only be a numeric value, and its comparing to a numeric constant, so I dont see how any type mismatch can occur.
I see no error and cannot understand why you see one.
Does the Post Code button work OK? Thats what matters, not the preview.
Im also confused that you can see this code. The wizards are protected by a password, if you select 'edit button script' from the menu you ought to be required to enter a password. How are you getting to this code? What mach version are you using?
Its not related to this problem, but I think you may be making an error on the tool selection screen. Before you press Continue you should press the button to calculate the chip load and the feed. Unless you press that button you will be using whatever value was last saved, not the one you are just entering. You also said Feed% was zero- that is not allowed, and if you had pressed the calculate feed button you should have seen an error message for that.
Sorry I cannot repeat this error, I have no way to tell whats happening to your system.
ron ginger
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I'm glad this thread came up. I am having the exact same problem with the Circle Hole Pattern Wizard. 2.4" dia pattern, 8 holes. X=0.000 Y=0.000 staring postion. Very basic. Works on the other hole wizards, but not the hole patern. I get a "compile error" and a "syntax error". Any helps would be great.
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Please tell me what version of the wizards you are running- the version number shows in the top right corner of the first screen.
I cannot repeat this problem on the latest version, or on my most recent update.
thanks
ron ginger
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Thanks for replying. I went ahead and loaded the lastest Mach3 2.0 in place of the 1.84 version.
This seemed to fix the hole pattern problem. There are a few other glitches in the Wizard that I've ran in this latest version, i.e. green preview screen, wouldn't approach correctly while trying to cut an outside circle. Would "spazz" out and lose steps, then continue on with the G-code. This happened after pressing the ESC botton to stop the previous program. Then the two issues mentioned above happened. These were minor, but worth mentioning, just in case anyone else has ran into these problems. WgE.