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Mach SDK plugin questions and answers. / I have a USB controller plugin I'm developing and it works pretty well except.

« on: July 10, 2010, 11:39:05 AM »

When I get an M3, Mach3 stops processing my g-code.  If I take out the M3 everything seems to work.

I noticed I get a couple of notify messages, notably 3 and 5, and I do nothing when I receive them.

I assume I must give some kind of response to "engine" to tell it to start reading the g-code again, but I don't know what to do.

Any help?

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Mach SDK plugin questions and answers. / Re: I'm having a movement plugin problem.

« on: December 17, 2008, 12:57:51 AM »

I would if there was a "join" in the Wiki main page.  I've even done a text search for "join" on the page in case my eyes were fooling me.

I do have a "create an account or login" link that is very hard to see by the way.  However I cannot log in with my forum ID (I get an error about the user not existing).  The error that is returned offers me to use the form to create a new account.  There is no form.

I don't think joining the Wiki is very intuitive.

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Mach SDK plugin questions and answers. / Re: I'm having a movement plugin problem.

« on: December 15, 2008, 01:08:04 PM »

OK, I may be stupid, but I can't find the form to create an account to edit the WIKI.

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Mach SDK plugin questions and answers. / Re: I'm having a movement plugin problem.

« on: December 15, 2008, 07:45:23 AM »

No, I'm using the ex, ey, ez,...sa, sa, sz variables.  I think I may have found what I needed in another post.  I needed to set the ExternalType an ExTime values.  It seems to be working now, however if anyone wants to post any other variables I migh have missed, please feel free.  Hunting for these by trial and error is a pain.

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Mach SDK plugin questions and answers. / I'm having a movement plugin problem.

« on: December 15, 2008, 06:21:25 AM »

I'm pulling off the MainPlanner->Movements[Engine->trajIndex] GMoves structure and I have 65 entries of zeroes in the c,e,and s variables.  Time shows 63.  I get this nonsense after typing a G00 X5 Gcode command.  I did figure out that I needed to set MainPlanner->ExternalPulseRates to fixup an earlier problem I had with the motor tuning screen.  Obviously I have to set some other variables to get the GMoves structure to fill, but I don't know what these are.  Any help out there?

Thanks

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NC Pod / Re: NcPod plug in 3.0 source code

« on: November 29, 2008, 04:15:07 PM »

I'd like to add my voice to this request.  I just bought the NCPod only because the source is available in the SDK.  I'm trying to learn how to develop a plugin to drive some motors for my own CNC like devices.  I want to build custom machines that are specific to certain machining tasks and I want to use Mach3 to drive these devices.  I just want something that works in the SDK that allows me to step through the plugin code and learn.  I bet there are others that would buy the NCPod just to help them learn how to write plugins if the latest plugin source code was available.  Is there any chance that the current NCPod plugin source code can be released?

Thanks