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Newfangled Solutions Mach3 Wizards / Threading macro wont work from front tool post

« on: April 10, 2024, 02:15:41 PM »

Been using mach3 for years and had to modify a line in the macro to make threading work . I had to alter true to false and it worked fine. Now i have had to reinstall everything and for the life in me i canot find where to do this simple thing . Please help

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Ess Smoothsteper speed problem

« on: October 15, 2016, 04:30:36 PM »

Forgot to mention Bob brand . Don't know really they are all over ebay and are the ones supplied by Warp9. 

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Ess Smoothsteper speed problem

« on: October 15, 2016, 04:27:04 PM »

Thanks a lot . Still no joy top speed ? I have set all the pins ports and pmw just as suggested and still get 10 volts . Its not really a big problem as I have lots of gears and I have speed control with buttons on the vfd, its just annoying . What I have had success with is screwing with the wizard . The threads were all the wrong way except for the first cut. I found a simple solution in some old threads . I changed Test = False to True and a presto it all gets written in G32 and its perfect . It may be that constant speed helps , wot you think  

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General Mach Discussion / Ess Smoothsteper speed problem

« on: October 04, 2016, 03:56:49 PM »

I have tried for ages to get the 0 to  10 volt speed control from the bob to work . No mater how I configure the spindle control I always get 10 volts from the bob. I have used 2 bobs with the smoothstepper to control spindle direction ( 1 relay on each bob) this works fine . This leaves lots of pins to control limits and movements all of which work fine  . I can use a battery or battery's wired  to the vfd to control speed so the vfd works . Any advice on mach setting's or smoothstepper settings to make the bob give 0 to 10 volts and not 10 volts all the time thanks. 

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General Mach Discussion / Re: G76 screwcutting wizard

« on: July 16, 2016, 05:15:23 PM »

thanks I will reply in about 2 weeks when I get back home from my holidays

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General Mach Discussion / G76 screwcutting wizard

« on: July 16, 2016, 11:20:46 AM »

Hello I have recently finished my Harrison m300 CNC long bed conversion to mach3  . I have used a Warp 9 ess Smoothsteper with new servo motors and new drives. And it all works very well and is very accurate. All the turning wizards work and I get good results. but the g76 threading wizard does not work well . if I put all the info in and load code it looks ok. but on execution the first cut is as expected it comes out ok and rapids back to start the second cut cuts the thread at rapid feed and returns at the programed pitch al subsequent cuts are the same. Its as if everything is in reverse. If I use G32 it cuts fine if I wright a simple program to repeat a g32 thread it cuts the same thread consistently. any ideas any body thanks