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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Probing, mcCntlGet/SetPoundVar

« on: October 26, 2016, 10:47:37 AM »

No problem, let me know how it goes.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Probing, mcCntlGet/SetPoundVar

« on: October 25, 2016, 03:12:15 PM »

I have a fix for you I think. These updates will be in the next release. You have three files in the zip you need to replace some existing files with. They are in the folders they need to be placed in respectively.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Probing, mcCntlGet/SetPoundVar

« on: October 24, 2016, 10:51:41 AM »

They #Vars were changed sometime back. The probing module has been updated but I'm not sure if you have the updated version. Not sure what builds it was included in if any. There was also an issue with the #Vars used to set distance modes. I know that is being looked at but not sure if it has been fixed yet or not. Will let you know when I find out.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Auto Touch Module

« on: October 18, 2016, 05:28:56 PM »

Is it blue when your probe is not touching? You can use that led to make sure your probe is working as expected. On when touching off when its not.

If it is blue when touching and black when not touching but your getting an unexpected touch there is about a 90% chance you have noise triggering the probe input when it should not be.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Auto Touch Module

« on: October 18, 2016, 08:32:52 AM »

Can you send a link with a short movie?

Keep an eye on this channel. I think some docs and a video will be coming in the very near future. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcZ847PqPXOUrksLYct-gaA
Until then, hoover over buttons, DROs, LEDs, etc in the dialog to see the tool tips when they pop up.

As Stuart said, make sure your selected probe input is working correctly.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Auto Touch Module

« on: October 17, 2016, 04:39:59 PM »

The touch button should bring up the TouchOff UI. Once you have UI up you need to make sure that if your probe goes active the blue LED lights up.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Multiple inputs in LUA script

« on: October 17, 2016, 08:16:47 AM »

Guys, here are some signals I added to the sig library and the function it runs if any of their states change. You might find it helpful. But remember, this is out of the screen load script and inst is defined at the beginning of it.

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-- CNC4PC Pendant --
--------------------------------------
-- These simply run the CNC4PCPendant function if their state changes.
[mc.ISIG_INPUT10] = function (state)
    CNC4PCPendant()
end,

[mc.ISIG_INPUT11] = function (state)
    CNC4PCPendant()
end,

[mc.ISIG_INPUT12] = function (state)
    CNC4PCPendant()
end,

[mc.ISIG_INPUT13] = function (state)
    CNC4PCPendant()
end,

[mc.ISIG_INPUT14] = function (state)
    CNC4PCPendant()
end,

[mc.ISIG_INPUT15] = function (state)
    CNC4PCPendant()
end,

[mc.ISIG_INPUT16] = function (state)
    CNC4PCPendant()
end,

[mc.ISIG_INPUT17] = function (state)
    CNC4PCPendant()
end,

[mc.ISIG_INPUT18] = function (state)
    CNC4PCPendant()
end,

[mc.ISIG_INPUT19] = function (state)
    CNC4PCPendant()
end

}

---------------------------------------------------------------
-- CNC4PC Pendant function.
---------------------------------------------------------------
function CNC4PCPendant()
local hSig, rc = mc.mcSignalGetHandle(inst, mc.ISIG_INPUT10)    -- Is mapped to Port 2 Pin 4 *X Selection
local XSelection, rc = mc.mcSignalGetState(hSig)
local hSig, rc = mc.mcSignalGetHandle(inst, mc.ISIG_INPUT11)    -- Is mapped to Port 2 Pin 5 *Y Selection
local YSelection, rc = mc.mcSignalGetState(hSig)
local hSig, rc = mc.mcSignalGetHandle(inst, mc.ISIG_INPUT12)    -- Is mapped to Port 2 Pin 6 *Z Selection
local ZSelection, rc = mc.mcSignalGetState(hSig)
local hSig, rc = mc.mcSignalGetHandle(inst, mc.ISIG_INPUT13)    -- Is mapped to Port 2 Pin 7 *A Selection
local ASelection, rc = mc.mcSignalGetState(hSig)
local hSig, rc = mc.mcSignalGetHandle(inst, mc.ISIG_INPUT14)    -- Is mapped to Port 2 Pin 8 *.001 Selection
local Step001, rc = mc.mcSignalGetState(hSig)
local hSig, rc = mc.mcSignalGetHandle(inst, mc.ISIG_INPUT15)    -- Is mapped to Port 2 Pin 9 *.010 Selection
local Step010, rc = mc.mcSignalGetState(hSig)
local hSig, rc = mc.mcSignalGetHandle(inst, mc.ISIG_INPUT16)    -- Is mapped to Port 2 Pin 10 *.100 Selection
local Step100, rc = mc.mcSignalGetState(hSig)
local hSig, rc = mc.mcSignalGetHandle(inst, mc.ISIG_INPUT17)    -- Is mapped to Port 2 Pin 15 *Estop
local PenStop, rc = mc.mcSignalGetState(hSig)
local hSig, rc = mc.mcSignalGetHandle(inst, mc.ISIG_INPUT18)    -- Is mapped to Port 2 Pin 12 *B Selection
local BSelection, rc = mc.mcSignalGetState(hSig)
local hSig, rc = mc.mcSignalGetHandle(inst, mc.ISIG_INPUT19)    -- Is mapped to Port 2 Pin 13 *C Selection
local CSelection, rc = mc.mcSignalGetState(hSig)
local PenJogOn, rc = mc.mcSignalGetHandle(inst, mc.OSIG_OUTPUT10)-- Is mapped to Port 2 Pin 1 *Jog on LED

if XSelection == 1 then
mc.mcMpgSetAxis(inst, 0, 0) --X Axis
mc.mcCntlSetLastError(inst, "X Selected")
mc.mcSignalSetState(PenJogOn, 1)
elseif YSelection == 1 then
mc.mcMpgSetAxis(inst, 0, 1) --Y Axis
mc.mcCntlSetLastError(inst, "Y Selected")
mc.mcSignalSetState(PenJogOn, 1)
elseif ZSelection == 1 then
mc.mcMpgSetAxis(inst, 0, 2) --Z Axis
mc.mcCntlSetLastError(inst, "Z Selected")
mc.mcSignalSetState(PenJogOn, 1)
elseif ASelection == 1 then
mc.mcMpgSetAxis(inst, 0, 3) --A Axis
mc.mcCntlSetLastError(inst, "A Selected")
mc.mcSignalSetState(PenJogOn, 1)
elseif BSelection == 1 then
mc.mcMpgSetAxis(inst, 0, 4) --B Axis
mc.mcCntlSetLastError(inst, "B Selected")
mc.mcSignalSetState(PenJogOn, 1)
elseif CSelection == 1 then
mc.mcMpgSetAxis(inst, 0, 5) --C Axis
mc.mcCntlSetLastError(inst, "C Selected")
mc.mcSignalSetState(PenJogOn, 1)
else
mc.mcMpgSetAxis(inst, 0, -1) --No Axis
mc.mcCntlSetLastError(inst, "No Axis Selected")
mc.mcSignalSetState(PenJogOn, 0)
end

if Step001 == 1 then
mc.mcMpgSetInc(inst, 0, .001)
elseif Step010 == 1 then
mc.mcMpgSetInc(inst, 0, .010)
elseif Step100 == 1 then
mc.mcMpgSetInc(inst, 0, .100)
end

if PenStop == 1 then
mc.mcCntlEStop(inst)
end
end


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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach 4 setting x reference

« on: October 14, 2016, 08:50:14 AM »

The video at this link should help. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDuZWZHVU0s

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Multiple inputs in LUA script

« on: October 12, 2016, 05:15:41 PM »

Do you have your inputs mapped to the modbus registers? Just because they are getting to modbus registers does not insure they are being seen as inputs in Mach. If you open diagnostics, logging pin and play it....... do you see the signals change states as you change them? Do that, save the log file and post it here. If your using the wx4 or wx6 screen set you can also watch their states change on the diagnostics page.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Multiple inputs in LUA script

« on: October 12, 2016, 02:56:39 PM »

See if this sorts it.