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Third party software and hardware support forums. / Re: Mach motion customer service

« on: January 21, 2023, 11:53:59 PM »

Mountainman,

I am very sorry about the trouble you are having getting your system up and going.  I work for MachMotion and I will personally take a look at your tickets and see if there is any way I can help.  I will reach out to on Monday.

Andy

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: MACH 4 START UP SCREEN -- PROBLEM

« on: September 16, 2021, 09:24:46 AM »

Check your fixture table, you might need to delete it and allow mach to rebuild it on next startup.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Lathe Z Axis stuck at zero after upgrade.

« on: May 04, 2020, 04:16:08 PM »

Mach added a new feature that is "Safe Z" sorta like the one in mach3.  You need to delete the 1801 paramter out of your parameters.ini file that is in your profile folder.

Description of the feature:

"Added a new feature to the Mill interpreter to make a z Value less them Parameter PV_ZAXIS_GCODE_MIN_VAL (1801) that it will change the Z to the value in the parameter. If the parameter is not in the parameter.ini it will do nothing..."

This change also affects Turn.


Delete the following lines:
[1801]
Desc=OEM parameter 1801
Type=2
Value=0

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Mach4 Lathe Issues

« on: August 28, 2019, 05:07:07 PM »

In your tool table there is drop down column name is "Direction" you need to set all the tools you are using to Primary.  Some reason it defaults to the wrong selection when they are blank.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: IMTS 2018

« on: September 04, 2018, 06:41:23 PM »

Any update on IMTS since it is in a week??
Newfangled Solutions going to have a booth, hopefully? 
We will be there Wednesday and Thursday.

MachMotion will not have a booth there, but a few of us will be attending Monday - Wednesday.  There will be a few of our customers running our controls on different machines with Mach4 Industrial.  I'm not sure what the booth numbers are, but if you are interested let me know and I can find out.

If anyone would like to meet up please send me a email: andrew@machmotion.com

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: is a subprogram or Macro faster in the file itself or read from disk?

« on: August 17, 2018, 10:16:17 AM »

Check and make sure that pound var 3003 = 0.  G68 should not pause at all if 3003 is zero.  It should be processed at look ahead time.  I am nearly 100% sure that there will be no difference between a local sub and a external sub, from my testing mach loads all the subs when it loads the file.

It might be possible that your look ahead line count is too low.  Normally we run at about 25.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: OPERATOR PASSWORD REQUIRED

« on: August 02, 2017, 11:52:59 AM »

Close down Mach, goto the profile -> (Your profile name) and then open machine.ini.  Search this file for "Passwd".

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: MPG with Feed Hold SAFETY ISSUE

« on: June 14, 2017, 04:41:31 PM »

Craig,

I run mach4 all the time and I am surprised to hear about this issue.  I am curious if there could be cross talk going on that is sending a mcCntlCycleStart() command.  Could you open -> Diagnostics -> Logging and start the file running and then turn on Logging, then press FeedHold and then bump the MPG.  After you have a log of this issue please save it and upload it to this post so we can see what is happening.

Thanks,
Andrew
MachMotion

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: EtherCat Pulgin...co-operative venture?

« on: June 09, 2017, 10:07:28 AM »

Craig,

Vital Systems is also offering a EtherCat option on some of their motion controllers.

Andrew

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: G91 is not recognized in M4 Turn 4.2.0.3196

« on: November 11, 2016, 11:21:30 PM »

Andrew:

Thanks for this info.

So then, why does the status line in Mach4 Turn show G90?

I think that is a display issue...