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Mach4 General Discussion / Hello everyone, glad to get started and talking to folks on this forum...
« on: May 12, 2013, 11:02:24 PM »
Hi, My name is Gary. I purchased a CNC running Mach3 software last fall and I'm just now starting to get acclimated to it. The computer locked up almost immediately, so I put in a new one and loaded the software and all of the settings that were in the notes for the setup. I'm a novice, but very smart when it comes to figuring things out. I have to admit this thing has me stumped.
Of course, I've done the guy thing and only referred to the manual when I got stuck on something. Seems self explanatory except when I go to use it. I'll open the Mach 3 Mill program, hit tab to bring up the toggle controller and I click on the +X and it will move away from "0", then it will just stop and I'll no longer have any control. One time I removed the checkmark from work offline and pressed the -X and it moved the length of the table and then stopped again with me not having any control.
Looking at the software so far. You can click the offline button, but the minute you go online the "Reset" E stop activates, so it's a vicious cycle, click "offline" press Reset and all is fine, no error messages or anything, but if you pull down the menu and uncheck the work offline, the Reset message comes up and the only way I've found to shut if off is to once again go off line.
What am I missing here? Also, if a load G Code, the software appears to be counting on the X, y and z axis, but the machine is not moving at all and of course it's on the offline creating the bad cycle again.
Would love to hear from some of you on this issue and also the best way to learn the operation of the CNC without reading the entire manual, which does not seem to have any troubleshooting information that I can find.
Thanks in advance for your help...have a great day! Gary<a href="http://" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="bbc_link bbc_flash_disabled new_win">http://</a>
Of course, I've done the guy thing and only referred to the manual when I got stuck on something. Seems self explanatory except when I go to use it. I'll open the Mach 3 Mill program, hit tab to bring up the toggle controller and I click on the +X and it will move away from "0", then it will just stop and I'll no longer have any control. One time I removed the checkmark from work offline and pressed the -X and it moved the length of the table and then stopped again with me not having any control.
Looking at the software so far. You can click the offline button, but the minute you go online the "Reset" E stop activates, so it's a vicious cycle, click "offline" press Reset and all is fine, no error messages or anything, but if you pull down the menu and uncheck the work offline, the Reset message comes up and the only way I've found to shut if off is to once again go off line.
What am I missing here? Also, if a load G Code, the software appears to be counting on the X, y and z axis, but the machine is not moving at all and of course it's on the offline creating the bad cycle again.
Would love to hear from some of you on this issue and also the best way to learn the operation of the CNC without reading the entire manual, which does not seem to have any troubleshooting information that I can find.
Thanks in advance for your help...have a great day! Gary