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General Mach Discussion / Problems communicating with CNC
« on: July 19, 2014, 07:18:22 PM »
First things first I am a newb but not clueless and have tried a number of things to solve my issues but now I come to you for help.
So I bought a homebuilt CNC from a yard sale and everything seemed to work well. I declined to purchase the computer they had hooked up to it because I already have several "beater" systems at home. I get it home and find I have to use a parallel port, no biggie I go to newegg and purchase one. Few days later it comes in I install it and hook everything up. Now I can't get mach3 to communicate with the motors or the computer to communicate with the breakout board. To be honest I'm not sure which.
Did some reading and figured out I need to assign the port and pins inside mach3 and I do so, after I search and search for info on my breakout board which had no markings of any kind. I eventually find what I think it is, photo attached, and assign pins as directed by it's documentation, no dice. I triple check my newly installed pci parallel card to confirm the port and it seems to check out. I checked the bios and could not find any options there. So now I am clueless and coming to you guys.
I will note I did watch the machine run at the yard sale so Im fairly confident that nothing is broken but who knows.
Windows 7 64bit
mach3, was given to me on a flash drive. I am not confident it was not a pirated copy so after I hit post here I am going to uninstall and reinstall the demo version from this site and give it one more go. I fully intend to purchase the full version once I get up and running.
Ask any questions you need
Photo I took of the actual Breakout board
Documention I found for the breakout board after exhaustive googling.
Parallel Info my Device Manager
Basic settings
Port and pins settings
Thank you in advance for any assistance.
So I bought a homebuilt CNC from a yard sale and everything seemed to work well. I declined to purchase the computer they had hooked up to it because I already have several "beater" systems at home. I get it home and find I have to use a parallel port, no biggie I go to newegg and purchase one. Few days later it comes in I install it and hook everything up. Now I can't get mach3 to communicate with the motors or the computer to communicate with the breakout board. To be honest I'm not sure which.
Did some reading and figured out I need to assign the port and pins inside mach3 and I do so, after I search and search for info on my breakout board which had no markings of any kind. I eventually find what I think it is, photo attached, and assign pins as directed by it's documentation, no dice. I triple check my newly installed pci parallel card to confirm the port and it seems to check out. I checked the bios and could not find any options there. So now I am clueless and coming to you guys.
I will note I did watch the machine run at the yard sale so Im fairly confident that nothing is broken but who knows.
Windows 7 64bit
mach3, was given to me on a flash drive. I am not confident it was not a pirated copy so after I hit post here I am going to uninstall and reinstall the demo version from this site and give it one more go. I fully intend to purchase the full version once I get up and running.
Ask any questions you need
Photo I took of the actual Breakout board
Documention I found for the breakout board after exhaustive googling.
Parallel Info my Device Manager
Basic settings
Port and pins settings
Thank you in advance for any assistance.