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General Mach Discussion / Re: MACH VERSION R3.042.020 - MACH3TURN

« on: December 01, 2008, 09:48:54 PM »

Can you zoom in?  I think you hold down the left mouse button to zoom and hold down the right mouse button to pan.  My display will look like yours when I have a tool change and the carrage has to move all the way to the right to make the change.  I can zoom and pan and I am using the same version you have.

Vince

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Macro

« on: November 29, 2008, 08:07:04 PM »

Oops.  I changed it to G00 and it works in simulation.  Now I will have to go load it into the machine.

Thanks

Vince

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Macro

« on: November 29, 2008, 06:27:30 PM »

I typed in:

  Code ("G53 GOO Z-0.200")
  Code ("G4 P3")   
  tool = GetSelectedTool()
  SetCurrentTool( tool )

And received the error: Unkown word where unary operation could be

I guess I will have to have one of these code experts tell me where I went wrong.

Vince

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Macro

« on: November 29, 2008, 12:13:28 PM »

Thanks, I will give that a try.

Vince

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General Mach Discussion / Macro

« on: November 29, 2008, 11:05:36 AM »

I need to have the M6 command in MachTurn modified.  I need it to do a G53 G00 Z-0.200, then G4 P3 as part of the tool change.  In the list of Macros i Mach I see M6Start, M6Startnew  and M6End.  Any suggestion on which macro MachTurn uses for the tool change and what the code needs to look like to add my commands?

Thanks.

Vince

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General Mach Discussion / Re: What´s the biggest machine using Mach3?

« on: November 29, 2008, 11:00:10 AM »

My Yamazen mill weighs 4,500 pounds and my Hardinge CHNC weighs 5,000 pounds (but half of that is the stand.)

Vince

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LazyTurn / Re: LazyTurn

« on: November 27, 2008, 10:26:49 AM »

When I click the create toolpath button I then get a message saying "mouse click detected do you want to quit the operation, yes/no (buttons)"

I am having the same problem and I know I am only clicking once.

Vince

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LazyTurn / Re: LazyTurn

« on: November 26, 2008, 07:25:13 PM »

I have been playing with LazyTurn for some time and still don't have much of a clue what I am doing.  It only started to work on my computer with the latest download.  When I try to load the file pulley.dxf, it seems to work except that it is reversed and at one end it looks like the tool move out from the part instead of in like the dxf.

Is there any kind of instructions manual somewhere I can download?

Vince

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Newfangled Solutions Mach3 Wizards / Re: V 2.77 ready for test

« on: February 15, 2008, 03:08:09 PM »

N4NV, that is the auto calculator function. Try going up to the OPERATOR control at the top of the screen and IF the auto calculator is checked uncheck it.
WHat version of MACH are you using?
 (;-) TP

That was the problem.  I have never turned that function on or off.  It must have been turned on when I installed version 3.03 of Mach.  The only thing in the operators menu I have used was the brain functions.

Vince

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Newfangled Solutions Mach3 Wizards / Re: V 2.77 ready for test

« on: February 15, 2008, 08:54:27 AM »

The pop up window will stay on top of any document I have open on my screen until I close the pop up as you can see on this screen shot.

Vince