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General Mach Discussion / Re: Hall of shame

« on: September 24, 2017, 02:23:40 AM »

Thank you, Tweakie.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Hall of shame

« on: September 23, 2017, 06:54:11 AM »

When you open Mach3 go into Help / About Mach3... if it says Licensed to: Demo Version then everything is OK. If it has a name and that name is not your name then you have installed a Pirate license.

If you have installed a Pirate license then the file   Mach1Lic.dat   must then be deleted from you Mach3 folder before you continue to use the Mach3 software.

Tweakie.

Hi Tweakie,

I bought my mach3 from Rockcliff Machines several years ago.  Saw this thread when I was searching for info on setting up my rotary table.

I went to about and saw that the license is registered "Rockcliff Machine Inc. Serial:8121000".  I believe Rockcliff Machine is a authorized dealer of sort.  But how do I change the license to have my name showing instead?

Wong

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Program stopped when encountering '#' statement

« on: December 02, 2016, 06:41:12 AM »

I procastined for a long few years before finally doing it. But I know nuts about pcb. My friend supplied me with the board design and schematic. I just run pcb-gcode to get the NC files, solder on whatever he tells me to, and mount it in the case. Lol...

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Program stopped when encountering '#' statement

« on: December 02, 2016, 03:01:42 AM »

Hi Craig and Mike,

I went ahead and set a deeper cut for the tracers to get the board done so that I can carry on my project. I'll get back to sorting out the issue once I solder the components on and hook it up with the main board.

It turned out rather nice:



After cleaning up:



Once I did the tests, I'll report back.

Thank you for you kind assistance.

Kyle

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Program stopped when encountering '#' statement

« on: November 30, 2016, 10:07:37 PM »

Hello Craig,

I did the test. The variables got updated alright. One thing I note after loading the codes into Mach3 was, the statement "#500=[#500/2]" didn't appear on the screen. Meaning, Mach3 only shows up to "P4 G20" in the box showing the gcode. When I click "Edit", that statement is in the nc file. Strange...

I still went ahead to run the program and saw that it works fine.

I don't know what else to try now...

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Program stopped when encountering '#' statement

« on: November 29, 2016, 11:30:46 PM »

Wow! Appreciate what you did, Craig!

I'll update once I get back to my machine.

Thanks man!

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Program stopped when encountering '#' statement

« on: November 29, 2016, 09:56:57 PM »

Thank you so much, Craig!!!

I'll try this out when I get home tonight.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Program stopped when encountering '#' statement

« on: November 29, 2016, 07:28:58 PM »

Hello Craig,

I'll try to do the test on G31 with MDI.  The Probe LED did light up when the vbit came in contact with the copper board and the melachine stopped, Z got zero'd, and retracted to the set Z2. This went on 3 times and on the 3rd, it stayed at Z0. The next statement is #501=#2002 followed by G0 Z2. I swapped these around (after G31, retract to Z2, then the #501=#2002), the machine retracted to Z2 after the 3rd time probing at X0Y0 and stopped.  So it appears to me that the #501=#2002 is line giving me the problem, though it's a valid statement.

Couldn't figure out what's wrong with this.  I do have the intention to purchase the AE if I can sort this out.

Could it be a setting I messed up in Mach3 that is causing this? The wiring of my probe? Probing still work when i do other job.

Thanks Craig.

Kyle

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Program stopped when encountering '#' statement

« on: November 29, 2016, 03:37:35 AM »

Hello Craig,

Thank you for your respond and inputs. Appreciate it.

I'm pretty sold on the software but I just need it to work. The probing routine doesn't seem to be working with my setup. I've been searching online for an answer.  So far I see one possibility from a post on James' forum, which a friend forwarded me: changing the port which I wired the probe to Port 2 of the USB Smoothstepper. Currently it's on port 1.  I don't know how that will have but I'll try that to see if the issue can be resolved.

Do let me know if you think of anything.

Thank you once again.
Wong

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General Mach Discussion / Program stopped when encountering '#' statement

« on: November 27, 2016, 08:11:12 PM »

Hi folks,

I'm Kyle from Singapore. Just started milling PCBs on my A2ZCNC/Sherline mill designed by a friend of mine. I was introduced to this software, Autoleveller (www.autoleveller.co.uk), which takes in an NC file and generate a new file with probing and height adjustments.

My first test with the test version of the autoleveller didn't go well. The software is simple to use. The codes generated looks good. But Mach3 refused to carry on after probing the 3rd time, when it encountered the assignment of the z tip position to the variable #500 (#500=#2002). The program should work as my friend whom has the almost the same setup as mine successfully ran the program.

I'm using Mach3 (Version R3.043.062) with a USB SmoothStepper and Gecko G540. Eagle was used with PCB GCODE to generate the NC file. The screenset used (if it matters) is the BigTex Machblue screen (the older version).

The segment of the code from the beginning to where it stopped:

(begin initial probe and set Z to 0)
G0 X0 Y0 Z0
G31 Z-10 F100
G92 Z0
G0 Z2
G31 Z-1 F50
G92 Z0
G0 Z2
G0 X0 Y0
G31 Z-1 F100
#500=#2002
G0 Z2

The message at Mach3 status bar: "begin initial probe and set Z to 0".

The machine did the 3 probes and stopped at z=0 after the 3rd.  The G0 Z2 right after the '#' statement didn't get executed.  I couldn't figure out what went wrong.  Could it be my settings in Mach3?  Prior to using this, I was probing and milling without any issue.

Anyone here can help?

Thank you.
Kyle