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General Mach Discussion / Re: USB Breakout board for Mach3

« on: September 06, 2013, 11:27:36 AM »

It is called "Mach3 Digitizing Plugin" and the installation file name is  Probing.m3p

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General Mach Discussion / Re: USB Breakout board for Mach3

« on: September 06, 2013, 10:55:19 AM »

I'd like to test the digitizing process with the Mach3 plugin that used to be available for download from the Artsoft website.
It appears it has been removed. Can someone send a link for that file please?
It would be interesting to see if the same problem occurs through the plugin as well.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: USB Breakout board for Mach3

« on: September 06, 2013, 03:33:00 AM »

Thanks Tweakie.

Is there a known issue with the card's support for G31 specifically?
If so, then I know I should stop looking for a solution until it's fixed on the plugin level but I'm bringing this up here just in case it's an isolated issue others do not have and in that case it might be a config problem on my end or a faulty card.

Just to give more info on the issue, the txt file is opened and locked by the program and released when it's done but stays empty. It's either no data is sent to Mach3 or something else.
Not sure which part of the data transfer is done by the card and which by Mach3.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: USB Breakout board for Mach3

« on: September 06, 2013, 02:49:13 AM »

The Mach3 USB Motion Card works fine for me except one big issue when used my probe to digitize a point cloud with Mach3.
I use the Mach3 Digitize Wizard and have the probe connected to input 15 and configured properly
(Probe-Enabled , Port# 1, pin # 15, Active Low - enabled)
The digitizing code runs perfectly and the probe generates a stop (for G31 command) but the data is not being written to the designated txt file I specify in the beginning of the code (M40 command).

I tried to run the probe with the center finding routine (blue screen) and it worked OK.
I also ran the digitizing wizard from another computer with different OS and had the same issue with the empty file.

Scott from Mach support believes the issue is with the card or card's driver plugIn FOR mACH3 (UsbMove.dll ver2.0.1.9 by Xulifeng).

Probe digitizing is crucial for my operation and I was hoping for your advice.
Any ideas?