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General Mach Discussion / Re: mach3 jog not working, timer not couting...
« on: November 09, 2011, 12:25:45 PM »
You probably have this working now, but I had a similar problem with my Mach 3 program.  Everything would work, except the timer would randomly stop or reset.

I found that the problem was with the Network Adapter.  All of my problems went away if I DISABLED the network adapter using the XP Device Manager.   So, I only activate the network adapter when I need to update my system ... otherwise it stays deactivated.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Elapsed Time output stopping during run
« on: June 04, 2011, 10:26:02 AM »
Not sure if you ever found a solution to your problem, but I had a similar issue.  What I found resolved the problem was to disable my network card.  My CNC machine is connected to my home network, so if necessary, I can update the operating system.  When the network card was active, the elapsed timer would stop at random times.  When it was disabled, it works fine.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Saving the Tool Table Changes
« on: June 26, 2009, 03:16:26 PM »
Thanks.

I will drop it in my routine.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Saving the Tool Table Changes
« on: June 26, 2009, 02:56:54 PM »
You are probably right.  My background is in Systems Analysis so I have written a lot of software (albiet quite a few years ago) and this is an easy thing to do.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Saving the Tool Table Changes
« on: June 26, 2009, 02:43:32 PM »
OK ... it is just really weird that it stores it in the tool table - but really isn't saving it.  I am guessing that its one of those little nagging software bugs in the program.  I have seen some other kind of flakey things happen from time to time.  You know where you go into the program, change a setting, are pretty sure that you saved everything, but when you go back, nothing has changed.

I am hoping that the rewrite that Brian is doing on Mach 3, Version 4 will take care of some of these type of little problems.  I know that he is doing a lot of work on offsets - primarily with regards to screen display

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach3 4.0 Rev Update
« on: June 26, 2009, 10:11:19 AM »
Thanks for the update Brian.  Sounds good.  My background is in Systems Analysis (Graphics applications in C and Assembly ... and accounting applications in COBOL), and although I have not written much software in the last 10 or 15 years, I have a feel for what is involved in getting a program of this magnitude designed and running - let alone "bug free".

By the way, although I am not entirely sure what you would require of me, I would be willing to be a tester of the new release.

Joe

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Saving the Tool Table Changes
« on: June 26, 2009, 08:19:42 AM »
Vmax549,

I do not think there is anything wrong with the code segment, but here it is.  I set my router bits up with collars, so, once they are set, they do not change.  I can remove them from the router, put them back in, and as long as they collar contacts the collet, all is good.  So, you will see in my code segment that I initialize the machine before calibrating the height of the bit.  In other words, it is intended to be run as a separate program, not as a subroutine within the program.

I did some additional testing on the when it saves.  This is what I found.

Run the snippet ... Exit the program ... tool offsets are not saved
Run the snippet ... Run Config/Save Settings ... Exit the program ... tool offsets are not save
Run the snippet ... Go into the Tool Table ... Select APPLY ... Exit the program ... TOOL OFFSETS ARE SAVED

Apparently, although the tool table is updated within Mach by the snippet, they will not be written to disk unless I hit APPLY within the tool table.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Saving the Tool Table Changes
« on: June 25, 2009, 03:54:28 PM »
It does not ask about saving the tool table.  It does ask about saving fixtures when closing.

Optional Offset Save, Persistent Offsets, and Persistent DROs are all checked.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Saving the Tool Table Changes
« on: June 25, 2009, 03:32:06 PM »
The machine is running a job at the moment, so I dont want to mess with the computer.  But I assume that it is not read only because if I manually change an offset, hit "apply" - then "ok" - then "save settings" - then exit and reopen the program, the change is still there.


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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach3 4.0 Rev Update
« on: June 25, 2009, 03:11:31 PM »
Brian,

Any update on Version 4.0?  I for one am looking forward to this.  Many of my programs use offsets, and the screen display on the current version is frustrating to follow.

Keep up the good work.


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