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General Mach Discussion / Help Please

« on: August 16, 2015, 03:38:39 PM »

   Today I went in and opened my Mach software as I was going to run a board. For some reason I can't get the spindle to start. I hit the spindle button and yellow flashes behind it. I have blown out the spindle. I am very new at this so excuse me if I don't know the terms. Does anyone have an idea for me? Susan

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Mach 3 Freezes in middle on program. How to diagnose?

« on: February 26, 2015, 05:00:41 PM »

Nope. We've got the full paid version.

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General Mach Discussion / Mach 3 Freezes in middle on program. How to diagnose?

« on: February 26, 2015, 12:26:22 PM »

Hi All,

I am having some issues where my program/mach3 is freezing sometimes in the middle of a program. Mach 3 becomes unresponsive and I have to close Mach 3 and Reopen the software. I write down the coordinates and the line number before quitting and then I input the coordinates and start the machine at the line it stopped and move on, but it's worrisome that this is happening. Any ideas?

I'm running the latest version of Mach 3 and it's on a clean computer. I'm also running Mach 3 on WIn7 with Windows XP compatibility mode.

Thanks,
SBdesigns

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Start Up and Shut Down Procedure of Machine with regards to Homing

« on: February 13, 2015, 11:06:21 AM »

Sounds like it's exactly what I need... but is there any detailed tutorial on this?

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General Mach Discussion / Start Up and Shut Down Procedure of Machine with regards to Homing

« on: February 05, 2015, 04:53:55 PM »

Hi everyone,

I've scoured the forums and google but couldn't really find a concise answer...

I'm looking for a solution or routine to start up my machine each time that makes homing simple and repetitive. My machine is an Industrial CNC Router which has hard limit switches(they are not enabled as suggested by their setup manual because they say they wear out..(what's the point?!)) ...Anyway, so I use soft limits after settings machine 0,0,0.

Anyway, every time I start up my machine, I must manually move and set 0,0,0 for the machine coordinates.
 
1. Is there a way to automatically home the machine to hit the limits and set machine 0,0,0? like the machine will bump the hard limits and back off and set the correct parameters in Mach3?

2. Is there a button on the interface/screens to make the machine move to Machine 0,0,0 before I shut it down so when I boot it back up I just set my machine 0 before moving anything?(this is probably an easier solution)

Thanks!
SBDesigns