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Mach4 General Discussion / SUPPORT

« on: July 22, 2020, 12:24:09 PM »

 ROB G. YOU ARE THE MAN..!...I owe Rob G. a huge debt of gratitude for making my hair pulling problem a thing of the past . Thank you so much for your time and effort to make the time to fix this . I wish I could buy you a beer or two Thank you sir. My lathes tool turret now works bi directional .Untill Rob worked on it ,I could only index in one direction Thank you sir.

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Show"N"Tell ( Your Machines) / Re: unknown motion controller

« on: June 05, 2020, 03:11:24 PM »

Looks like a Maxnc CL I used one for many years. Mach3 used to have a setting in it for the Maxnc not the encoder version.

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Mach4 General Discussion / MACH4

« on: June 05, 2020, 09:15:56 AM »

Just downloaded the newest version from the FTP site and was wondering who Todd is ?

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: MDI NOT WORKING

« on: May 31, 2020, 09:47:14 AM »

I found out that if I right click in the box and click on open IME ...I can enter  stuff . And for the cursor to re-appear right click and hit close IME .Yes what a pain. What really gets me is every time I have a problem and put in a ticket they say my install is corrupt .I down load the Latest version and still have problems .My computer is win 10....I have a Pokeys motion controller 57e connected to a cnc4pc M16 .So I have to run a cnc4pc  installer and a Pokeys plugin . If Mach is getting corrupted its the other software causing the problem not the computer .My computer is not connected to internet .wifi is turned off and the only thing isntalled is Mach .A very lean setup.

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Mach4 General Discussion / MDI NOT WORKING

« on: May 30, 2020, 04:17:09 PM »

I installed the latest version of Mach4 from the FTP site and I can enter anything into the MDI box .Anyone using the newest development version from the ftp site ?

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: MACH4 LATHE

« on: May 13, 2020, 12:24:32 PM »

Yes I can do that tonight .

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: MACH4 LATHE

« on: May 13, 2020, 09:00:39 AM »

The Macro was written by Trevor that works for Mach .I have spent the last 9 months trying to get it to work through M.D.I. I ran into a road block and decided to go with it the way it was .Trying to make it run bye directional was too much an issue .So the first time I tried to run a program  with tool changes , 5 tools .It would change to tool 1 do its machining then get to tool t0202 and sit there .Left there for an hour the cycle timer keep running and no tool change. I started to edit the program that was posted with a generic Fanuc post . When I deleted the M5 it got past the t0202 until t0303 then it hung up on that line again. Once I removed all the m5 it went all the way through. I will take the g28 out .But thats not going to fix why I cant run the program a 2nd time .It rewinds to the top ?

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: MACH4 LATHE

« on: May 13, 2020, 07:24:25 AM »

The first problem I had was at the end of every operation there was an M5 .Spindle stop . When it got to line with the next tool change  the machine would sit there .The cycle timer kept counting . I deleted the M5 and the machine changed tools and it ran through the program .It got to the end M30 and it re-wound to the top line .If I try to re-run it machine is frozen .Cycle start wont work M.D.I.  wont work .I have to re-start Mach ? So I'm very confused as to why ? And the tool changer not working because of the M5  ? It would change to tool 1 but when it got to t0202 it froze up .

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Mach4 General Discussion / MACH4 LATHE

« on: May 12, 2020, 05:41:19 PM »

I run a program when it gets to the end M30 % It rewinds to the top of program .If I hit cycle start it wont run Mach is frozen .I have to shut Mach down and re-start the software to run the program again . Has anyone experienced this before and what did you do to fix it ? Thank you.

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Mach4 General Discussion / m6 macro

« on: May 11, 2020, 12:36:59 PM »

I need help with a Macro . Is there any users of Mach4 lathe that are good at making a Macro work ?