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General Mach Discussion / Re: reference all home - probblem adding to stock button code

« on: August 09, 2015, 06:48:45 PM »

While I'm at it, what do these do?  They have no apparent effect, although I expect they are there for a reason and doing something

DoOEMButton(133)
DoOEMButton(134)
DoOEMButton(135)

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General Mach Discussion / Re: reference all home - probblem adding to stock button code

« on: August 09, 2015, 06:47:49 PM »

Thanks Gerry.  I'll correct it.  Much appreciated.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: reference all home - probblem adding to stock button code

« on: August 09, 2015, 03:48:02 PM »

I figured it out.  This seems to work:

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DoButton( 24 )
DoButton( 23 )
DoButton( 22 )
DoButton( 25 )

While (IsMoving())
Wend

code "g53 x1 y14.7"

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General Mach Discussion / reference all home - probblem adding to stock button code

« on: August 08, 2015, 09:26:03 PM »

 I'm a Mach3 beginner.  I have a small CNC router I built a year or so ago.  My machine is a fixed gantry and my home switches are located in such a way that my table homes to the rear of the machine (min Y) when I execute reference all home.  After that, I almost always move the table back to the front of the machine (max Y) to deal with work pieces.  That works fine but I wanted to automate that move back to the front after I reference home.

I went to Operator, Edit Button Script and changed the "reference all home" code as follows:

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DoButton( 24 )
DoButton( 23 )
DoButton( 22 )
DoButton( 25 )

DoOEMButton(133)
DoOEMButton(134)
DoOEMButton(135)

Code"G0 Y14.7"

It sort of works.  But it executes the move to 14.7 first, then does the reference all home.  Is there a way I can get that command to happen after the reference all home?

Thanks,
Scott

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Home to machine zero?

« on: December 03, 2013, 05:58:14 PM »

Hood, thanks I'll see if i can play with one of them.

Gerry: I saw yours right after I asked. Love the homing routines. I watched some of the video. I need to master that, would be perfect for the way I envision our workflow. Thanks.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Home to machine zero?

« on: December 03, 2013, 12:13:29 PM »

Hood:  I'm using CamBam.  For what we will be doing it I like it so far.  I'll look at it's postprocessor settings for Mach 3, thanks.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Home to machine zero?

« on: December 03, 2013, 12:11:44 PM »

ger21, you are correct of course.  I wasn't at the Mach 3 PC when I wrote it. I meant the default goto zero button then. 

I am using the default screen set for now.  Although I saw one I might change to at calypsoventures once I get things going.

I'm a mentor for a high school robotics team.  We are working with a small CNC router for now.  Not to get OT from original question, but as long as I have some experts here... Do you know of a custom screen set I might look at that would be less "robust" and more dummied down for the kids to use?

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Home to machine zero?

« on: December 03, 2013, 11:25:21 AM »

Perfect, Thanks guys.  Much appreciated.  I figured out where to enter it on the MDI screen.  Went back and forth from machine home to user home, just what I wanted.

Is their a tutorial anywhere on adding a button?  (and creating)?

Maybe, more ideally, I can get my Cam software to add the command for return to machine home as the last command.

Thanks again, Scott

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Home to machine zero?

« on: December 03, 2013, 08:49:13 AM »

To demonstrate that I'm REALLY new at it.  Can you tell me how to enter a direct command?

Also, if that's the command for machine zero, what is the corresponding command to move to user/workspace zero?

How hard is it to make a button to execute such a command?

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General Mach Discussion / Home to machine zero?

« on: December 02, 2013, 11:20:32 PM »

Noob, hopefully easy question.

ogt my CNC router setup and working via Mach 3.  No limit switches on router (yet, plan to add asap).  For now, I turned off the home inputs in port config for XYZ.  Now, from reseaching here, I can move the spindle to what I want to call machine home and set refernce all and machine coordinates go to zero.  All good so far.  Now I jog to the zero coordinate of my workpiece, run my program.  After that I click goto home and I get a move to the workpiece zero. 

Are there 2 commands for moving to "user zero" and "machine zero"? 

What I'm after is before I turn the machine off, I'd like to move it to the machine zero so it's in the default position when I turn it back on.  Without having to jog manually.

Thanks,
Scott