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General Mach Discussion / Re: Jog keys

« on: October 08, 2014, 01:00:29 AM »

8cD  Thanks! 

mine are now set to pgup and pgdwn, and the CNC's happily cutting air on a test run.

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General Mach Discussion / Jog keys

« on: October 08, 2014, 12:27:00 AM »

OK, yet another noobie question.  Where's the Z jog key?  I have arrow keys, with ctrl or shift, for XY, but where's Z?

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General Mach Discussion / Re: I'm an imbecile

« on: October 07, 2014, 06:20:33 PM »

Thanks! 

3 <-- Annie's butt, which Hood has saved!    8cD

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General Mach Discussion / Re: I'm an imbecile

« on: October 07, 2014, 04:39:36 PM »

Oh, for completeness - the only change in this time that I know of is this morning I couldn't get it out of 'estop activated', and finally found the switch for it and set it active low (there is no estop on the machine, instead there's a power kill that just drops voltage to everything), and am now wondering if I reset all the settings when I did that.
The other thing I did was buy a license, and install the license file. 8c/

And FWIW it's parallel port 1, I can see the driver board and see where wires go, it's a simple 3 axis servo setup.

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General Mach Discussion / I'm an imbecile

« on: October 07, 2014, 04:37:35 PM »

   Oh good grief.....
     I bought a CNC router a few months ago, didn't have time to do much with it until now, but did fiddle with it enough to know it was all set up and configured.

Then ignored it for a while, come back, and the axes aren't moving...  I suspect I've somehow trashed the xml file, and no, of course I don't have a backup.

Since this is a home made machine I've got no documentation.  So...
How do I go about either recovering the xml file (vague wish) or figuring out manually how to configure the thing?