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Mach4 General Discussion / Build 4809 to 5153 Hobby, now with industrial look?

« on: July 01, 2023, 10:48:23 AM »

Hi

upgraded from 4809 to 5153, and now I have industrial/darker gray look? How to switch to that original light gray screen look?

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Mach4 General Discussion / Read older screen.set file

« on: October 01, 2022, 07:15:47 AM »

Hi

I have copy of older mach version, and over there in screen.set is my pendant code. So notepad cant show readable code. With what I can view the old pendant code, to copy it, and put in the new mach version?

Thanks

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Mach4 General Discussion / Touch interface problem

« on: March 22, 2022, 11:14:15 AM »

Hi

I am having some troubles with touch interface. It works maybe 50% of time. Smaller the probe feed rate, more problems. Two faults mainly. One is where coordinates move but axis wont. Second is after I start, it moves, stalls, disables.

What could be the problem?

Mach4, Smoothstepper ESS. No problems with cutting.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Slave Y axis getting behind in time.

« on: March 22, 2022, 11:05:14 AM »

Hi

I found that my Y slave axis is getting out of square with time. At 10 days its getting 1.5mm to Y++ side, 0.1..mm per day. I measured that after I turn on the machine and ref. all axes.

What could be the problem?

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Mach4 General Discussion / Zero X and Y buttons inactive

« on: February 12, 2022, 03:20:20 PM »

Hi

I have limits and home on each axes and Reference All Axes works. Also Zero Z works, but I can't press Zero X and Zero Y, they are inactive? What can be the problem?

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Mach4 General Discussion / First probe and tool height choices

« on: February 10, 2022, 09:26:22 AM »

Hi!

I'm noob, I have not made any probe or tool height's yet. I want to find my workpiece coordinates and workpiece top height. So what I must do? On Mach4 there are these choices:

On Tool Information there is Touch button, from there I can choose:
Find workpiece Corners. Plug in my probe, insert probe tip diameter. Press desired function button(Left corner)
Find Z(material top). Plug in my tool height sensor, insert Touch Plate height. Press desired function button(Find Z)

On Probing tab:
Corners, Measure corners
Single Surface, Measure Z... So this is for only for probe, not for tool height sensor?

On Offsets tab:
Coordinates, say G54
Edge Finding. Insert Edge Finder Diameter(probe tip?), Set X, set Y
Z Offset and Tool Offset, both have insert Gauge Block Height? What to choose?


What is the right and precise way to measure Touch Plate height?
Do I need fill the Tool Offsets?
Tool changing. Can I jog machine to some place where I want to change the tool, place where I measure tool height, and what to press after that to go back to position?

Setup:
Homebuilt CNC, Mach4, ESS, with limits and home, one probe/tool height signal input, 2.2kw spindle, ER20 collet.

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G-Code, CAD, and CAM discussions / Post processor for Solidworks CAM to Mach4

« on: February 10, 2022, 07:36:15 AM »

Hi!

I found that I need Fanuc 21i post processor. I am using Solidworks CAM and Mach4, and on there is only FANUC10M,11M,16M and FANUCOM. Where do I find the right file to use?


Thanks

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Mach4 General Discussion / 5 axis Pedant for Mach4 with Smootstepper ESS

« on: March 16, 2020, 01:30:16 PM »

Hi,

What 5 axis Pedants work with Mach4 and ESS?