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General Mach Discussion / Slaving more than 2 steepers

« on: October 30, 2009, 04:10:15 AM »

Is their anyway of slaving 16 stepper motors(yes 16 its not a typo). I am in the early stages of designing something similar to a multi rip saw for putting V grooves in internal doors.

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Mach SDK plugin questions and answers. / Re: New Plugin Available - XBox360 Controller

« on: April 27, 2008, 09:13:15 AM »

Good news. I am back up and running after following your advice. Thanks Lee.

I did notice that if I have duplicate commands on different sticks and conflict the the command, I end up with the same error.

I have noticed though when jogging with one axis the jog speed is 1/2 of max s ther a way of altering this. I do have my jog speed set at 100%?

Many thanks Liam

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Mach SDK plugin questions and answers. / Re: New Plugin Available - XBox360 Controller

« on: April 24, 2008, 03:50:53 PM »

Thanks for your time Lee. I will give that a go.

I bought a chatpad frm ebay. Luckly I bought it cheap as Microsoft hasn't released a driver even though it advertised as being Xbox and PC compatable.

Liam

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Mach SDK plugin questions and answers. / Re: New Plugin Available - XBox360 Controller

« on: April 20, 2008, 08:31:45 PM »

Lee have managed to replicate the problem when transferring my XML file from the machines computer to the home PC.

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Forum suggestions and report forum problems. / Re: Slaved Motors different speeds Homimg/Verifiying ONLY

« on: April 20, 2008, 08:29:23 PM »

Problem fixed. Handn't saved the A axis setting to match X.DOHHH

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Forum suggestions and report forum problems. / Slaved Motors different speeds Homimg/Verifiying ONLY

« on: April 20, 2008, 03:23:17 PM »

I have been using my machine with slaved X axis for 2 years with no problem.

I am now running Mach3 3.041. My machine works fine and doesnt lose steps at any speed range. Untill I home or verify then one motor is definately faster than the other. Any ideas would be appreciated?

Regards

Liam

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Mach SDK plugin questions and answers. / Re: New Plugin Available - XBox360 Controller

« on: April 20, 2008, 12:30:33 PM »

To get the controller working I was using MACH3 V2.63 with Xbox360_32Eng.exe and Nov2007 DirectX SDK files installed. All worked OK.

The next day it still worked just I reconfigured the buttons to suit and everything worked fine.

On the third day I recieved the error message on startup. My only file change was to delete the plugin file after the error. Mach then started up as normal. Since then I upgraded to 3.041 added the plugin ande recieved the same error on startup.

Lee I appreciate the time your taking on this.

I have a Xbox messenger on order . So will let you know the results(testing it on the home PC)

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Mach SDK plugin questions and answers. / Re: New Plugin Available - XBox360 Controller

« on: April 19, 2008, 12:05:35 PM »

Hi Lee

I was using R2.63. I have upgraded to 3.041 as suggested but problem still persists.

Liam

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Mach SDK plugin questions and answers. / Re: New Plugin Available - XBox360 Controller

« on: April 18, 2008, 03:33:54 PM »

Hi Lee look forward to the future updates.

Unfortunately I ran into a problem today. When starting up Mach3 I get an ""Error Code Art 904. Attempt Recovery".

Unfortunately the program dosn't recover unless I remove the Xbox plugin and reopen Mach3. I have had this plugin working on this computer and have not changed any settings since. Any ideas on how to fix it would be appreciated?

Regards Liam

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Mach SDK plugin questions and answers. / Re: New Plugin Available - XBox360 Controller

« on: April 16, 2008, 03:22:32 PM »

Hi BigZ,

If you are refering to the addin keypad that Microsoft offers for the Controller, the answer is, it should work but I am not sure.  As I understand it, the keypad is really just a USB keyboard that uses the XBox360 controller as a pathway for communication.  If you hook up the keypad to the controller and it starts working like a keyboard, then it should work.  Try it and let me know.  If it gives you any error messages, let me know what they are. I might have to add the productId of the keypad, but I don't think so.

Lee

Lee thank you for such a great plugin and the foolproof instructions( only recieved my XBox controller yesterday).

I am only thinking of buying the messenger pad as I would like to add my camera edge finder offset and zero plate to my controller. I do have some spare buttons left but couldn't work out if I could configure it for hotkeys.

Any plans to get all the buttons working? Just a suggestion would it be possible to expand the joystick menus to include all the functions listed in the button menu?

Great work Lee

Liam