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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: extra small font on Mach 4 screen Help please

« on: November 03, 2019, 01:15:52 PM »

Hi,

What is the screen resolution you're using? It looks like it could be 4k. If so, in Window's display settings try changing it to something like 1920x1080 at 100% scaling and see how that looks.

-Jacob

. Thanks Jacob

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: extra small font on Mach 4 screen Help please

« on: November 03, 2019, 01:15:26 PM »

Thanks,  yes that fixed it.

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Mach4 General Discussion / extra small font on Mach 4 screen Help please

« on: November 01, 2019, 03:59:58 PM »

I just uploaded Mach 4, and the screen has all the text at extremely small fonts.   See attached image.  Can anyone offer up a fix for this
please.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: New people welcome !! Come in here and introduce your self!

« on: October 31, 2019, 07:15:06 PM »

OK

I am new here and could sure use some help.    I have been using Mach 3 for 5 years on a CNCRPTs 48 96 pro machine.   great results.   as a point of reference, I am an artist, not and computer wizard... so setting this all up 5 years ago almost killed me.

Two weeks ago my laptop died.    resulted in complete loss of all loaded Mach 3 lic. info.  I did save all my 3D CNC folders but could not restart Mach 3.

Yesterday I paid for a new Mach 4 license from AVID so it was formatted for my machine.    got Mach 4 uploaded and configured, than entered into the licensing step.       Made a sad error there.   when they asked for my machines ID, I loaded in my laptops ID .  they sent me the license file to turn on the MACH 4 Hobby.    Sadly I found out at that moment that I should have found the PC ID for the Mach 4 apparently.    ( found this about 5 screens further on in the instructions)


So now I have a license file that is no good.    Can I simple open up that text file and add in the correct PC ID from Mach 4.   Or am I am I stuck waiting for Mach to answer my groveling emails to allow me to restart this long, painful process.


THe other question I have has to do with the screen view.    When I do open up mach 4 the headers are about a size .005 font.   I can not see them even with x 4 glasses on.       will this be corrected when the license is loaded in?      ARGGGHHH.   

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Restarting mid way in a run

« on: April 08, 2015, 10:01:30 AM »

Thanks Hood.  I am going to set up a small foam core carve Saturday and play with this.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Restarting mid way in a run

« on: April 07, 2015, 11:53:02 PM »

Hood, in my other machine, a Shark HD I set the Safe Z during the Tool path creation in Aspire.

So is that the same for Mach3?   if a set a Safe Z in Aspire, will Mach3 pick that up, or is there a place in the Mach 3 controls to program in a Safe Z?

I have sensors on the X and Y so have early stops set on those before the  unit runs in to a hard stop, but there are not sensors on the Z assemble to set up limits.... That would of course be different than setting the Safe Z .

thanks.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Restarting mid way in a run

« on: April 07, 2015, 12:17:30 PM »

thanks.. I will play with it this weekend.

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General Mach Discussion / Restarting mid way in a run

« on: April 06, 2015, 11:19:37 PM »

I had a 65245 line tool path to run on Saturday.   at 12341 lines the bit came loose.

So I reinstalled the tool, and reset Zero  is there a way in Mach to ask the controller to start from a specific line? in this case I wanted the machine to start carving at line 12000.

this is only my 3 rd  carving with Mach, seems  like a great system,  just not sure how to get trained on it.  Is there manuals or generic operating videos that could help??

thanks

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General Mach Discussion / Re: New people welcome !! Come in here and introduce your self!

« on: April 04, 2015, 04:36:53 PM »

Scott here.   30 months into the world of CNC.   Bought a small shark to use in my Gallery / wood carving shop to start.  Just added at CNCrouterparts 4896 pro series with Mach 3 controls...    This is a real step up , as the Shark controls are not generic... Easy to use but don't have the features the Mach does.    Doubt I will ever use all the features of Mach3.     Here is a quick newbie question for you Mach Wizaeds.     I'm current running a rough out tool path with 34589 lines,  35 minutes in at. Line 12322, the router bit comes loose.     In stopped it, refund Zero Z and started all over from path 1.    Is there a way to tell Mach to start from say Tool path 12000?    Thanks scott art