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General Mach Discussion / Re: Tips for Homing/Alignment Recovery after Mach3 Errors

« on: April 22, 2014, 03:40:02 AM »

Thanks for the replies everyone. I haven't been able to repeat the error in the last couple of days but when it arises again I will be posting it and searching for simliar threads. FYI I'm running Windows 7 32-bit.

I think the main solution to this problem is for me to actually install some homing switches onto my machine, since mine has none. I have no idea where to start though. I've seen short tutorial videos, but I think I need something more in depth to grasp the project ahead. Any thoughts?

Matt

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General Mach Discussion / Tips for Homing/Alignment Recovery after Mach3 Errors

« on: April 18, 2014, 04:39:11 PM »

Hi all,

This question can go in two directions and feel free to take whichever caters to your know-how. I recently have had some issues with Mach3 giving me an error with a popup window, asking me if I should try to recover, all of which times have failed to recover, and the software had to be force-closed by windows. There have been a few moments where I get a "blue screen of death" after that, and windows actually needs to reboot. I'd like to find the source of this error that is occurring, and I think it may have to do with my pendant, but I can't verify that. I am a beginner at using Mach3, is it normally a very finnicky program?

In any case, I'd like to know what people's strategies have been when their software has failed and they have lost the position of their work. What do you do when that happens? Do you always start over? Is there a way to save the setting to reload that positioning? Do these questions point to a different problem?

My current set-up:
Mach3 (Latest version)
Romaxx WD-1 w Dewalt 611
iMach M2 USB Pendant from VistaCNC

Curious to know what the community thinktank has on this, Thanks!!