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General Mach Discussion / Re: Alternatives to Mach3

« on: May 05, 2022, 02:02:07 AM »

you may also have look at estlcam.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Bit depth zeroing tool help

« on: May 01, 2022, 04:48:17 AM »

grounding and shielding is allways very hard to advice from remote without knowing the complete installation.
but shielded motor wires and shielded wires for all limit switches/probes is allways a good start. seperated motor
cables and signal wires is also a help. the main machie body should also have a ground connection.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Bit depth zeroing tool help

« on: April 27, 2022, 02:00:57 PM »

looks like you have noise on the probe signal, because probe tripped after 3.85mm and
then probe signal was off again.

try to play with the debounce in Config-General Config or search what causes the noise.

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Mach Screens / Re: machscreen .. adding dro and script from button??

« on: April 24, 2022, 03:56:48 AM »

for toolchange normaly M6Start.M1S and depending on the way you do your toolchange M6End.M1S
are used.

do at the begin of M6Start a

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  Code ("G53 G1 X" &GetOEMDro(1200) &" Z" &GetOEMDro(1201) &" F123")

will allways bring the machine first to a tool change position.

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Mach Screens / Re: machscreen .. adding dro and script from button??

« on: April 23, 2022, 07:21:10 AM »

you can also use a G0

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Mach Screens / Re: machscreen .. adding dro and script from button??

« on: April 22, 2022, 01:17:42 PM »

for example your OEMDro's are:

wzwx = OEMDro(1200) and wzwz = OEMDro(1201)

the VBCode would be:

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  Code ("G1 X" &GetOEMDro(1200) &" Z" &GetOEMDro(1201) &" F123")

btw.

https://www.machsupport.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Mach3_V3.x_Macro_Prog_Ref.pdf

is allways good to have

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FAQs / Re: X axis drift

« on: April 19, 2022, 01:54:26 AM »

what is your setting Step's/per for this axis?

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Used CNC/unknown software

« on: April 11, 2022, 12:42:27 PM »

the picture of the breackout board looks like it is a selfmade paralell breakoutboard.
without having the chance to follow the circuits on the board visually it is very hard
from the distance to help here. the instruction sheet is only for basic Mach3 installation
without any information about used pin's.
so a chance would be to look for a PC with Win XP or Win7 32bit and a parallel port,
or any newer OS in combination with an UC100.
then install Mach3 in Demo mode (free) and try an error, starting with most common settings.
other possibility will only be to follow up the circuit's on the board manually. 
sorry that i am not able to provide more detailed information, never seen such a board.
maybe someone else will show up if he has an identical board.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Bit depth zeroing tool help

« on: April 11, 2022, 01:18:35 AM »

i have added some debug messages to the code.
pls run the script and post then the last 10 lines of the file. C:\Mach3\LastErrors.txt

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If GetOemLed (825)=0 Then 'Check to see if the probe is already grounded or faulty
Message("starting z-probe at z: " &GetDro(2))
Sleep(200)
DoOEMButton (1010) 'zero the Z axis so the probe move will start from here
Code "G90 G31 Z-50 F50" 'probing move, can set the feed rate here as well as how far to move
While IsMoving() 'wait while it happens
Wend
Sleep(200)
Message("z-Position after probe: " &GetDro(2))
Sleep(200)
Message("probe input after probe: " &GetOemLed(805))
Sleep(200)
If GetOemLed (825)=1 Then 'Check to see if the probe is hit
Call SetDro (2, 5) 'set the Z axis DRO to whatever is set as plate thickness
Sleep(200) 'pause for Dro update.
Code "G1 Z10 F500" 'put the Z retract height you want here
Code "(Z axis is now zeroed)" 'puts this message in the status bar
Else
MSGBox "probe not hit !"
Exit Sub
End If
Else
Code "(Z-Plate is grounded, check connection and try again)" 'this goes in the status bar if aplicable
Exit Sub
End If


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General Mach Discussion / Re: Bit depth zeroing tool help

« on: April 10, 2022, 04:29:00 AM »

if you run my script

-z-axis goes down
-hit the probe
-then message "probe not hit"

is this the sequence what is happening?

if you do this pls go to diagnostic page , message came up. without moving z-axis, and have a look for
diditize LED.