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Brains Development / Re: Brain that activate laser when spindle goes negative Z?

« on: December 27, 2014, 11:35:00 AM »

Ok, now I made a Brain that switch the laser on and off depending if the Z axis is positive or negative. It's a simple and fast solution. Now I need to figure out a way of turning the laser off in both positive AND negative Z value until I hit start i Mach3. Is there a command for start and stop?

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Brains Development / Re: Manually add a Brains folder?

« on: December 27, 2014, 10:58:23 AM »

Yes Gerry, you are right. For some reason I got two Mach3 folders, and when I searched for "ModIOMPG.brn" I couldn't find it anywere. Thanks for pointing that out.

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Brains Development / Re: Manually add a Brains folder?

« on: December 27, 2014, 09:29:25 AM »

Hi! My installation/Mach3-folder just got this folders:

GCode
LCamSamples
Shapes

So I made a "Brains" folder, but non of the brains files in that folder show up in the "Brain Control". And I have restarted my computer several times. The only Brain file that I can see in the Brain Control is "ModIOMPG.brn", but that one is not on my computer harddrive.

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Brains Development / Re: Manually add a Brains folder?

« on: December 26, 2014, 05:50:23 PM »

I tried that but Mach3 don't load brains that's in that folder.

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Brains Development / Manually add a Brains folder?

« on: December 26, 2014, 03:39:41 PM »

Seems that I got no Brains folder in my Mach3 folder. Is it possible to add that later, or do I have to reinstall the program?

Regards / Jimmy

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Brains Development / Re: Brain that activate laser when spindle goes negative Z?

« on: December 26, 2014, 02:35:15 PM »

Hi! I have done a search at the forum but can't find what I'm looking for. Right now I do it manually in the post precessing, but my question was about if this could be done with a brain.

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Brains Development / Re: Brain that activate laser when spindle goes negative Z?

« on: December 26, 2014, 11:19:43 AM »

Hi! I want to turn the laser on and off, depending on the position off the spindle. A positive value turn the laser off (M09) and a negative value turn the laser on (M08). The relay I use to control the laser is connected to the breakout card (P14 and +5V).

Regards / Jimmy

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Brains Development / Brain that activate laser when spindle goes negative Z?

« on: December 25, 2014, 05:55:38 PM »

Hi! I have mounted a relay that goes on and off using code M08 for ON and M09 for OFF (coolent on/off). When I want to start the laser I put M08 in my g-code. But that solution gives a lot of manual editing. It have to be another way to control the relay? I have seen some solutions on Youtube that use the negative Z for switching the relay on (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bmx0OxR8EMg). Is that possible using brain, and is there some example code to learn from?

Regards / Jimmy

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General Mach Discussion / Mach3 support in Inventor HSM Pro?

« on: October 29, 2014, 05:49:25 PM »

Hi! I try to export g-code from Autodesk Inventor HSM Pro but the only profile I can find is for Mach2, and I have big problems getting that to work. Is it possible to export something useful from Inventor HSM Pro to Mach3?

Best Regards / Jimmy