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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: problem with my tool lenght sensor

« on: March 12, 2017, 05:09:10 PM »

Hi all
Is somebody here who can tell me how the probing  should working?
Thank you for your help.
Kind regards
Beat

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: problem with my tool lenght sensor

« on: March 06, 2017, 03:24:56 PM »

Hi Daz the Gaz

I've version 186
Do you know, is this version ok?
And could you tell me how i can measure my tool length?
Maybe i make something wrong 
Thank you for your help

Beat

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: problem with my tool lenght sensor

« on: March 05, 2017, 02:31:39 PM »

Oh really?
Ok, i check this tomorrow evening.
Thank you for your answer.

Beat

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Mach4 General Discussion / problem with my tool lenght sensor

« on: March 05, 2017, 11:39:56 AM »

hi all
i need your help  
i try to use a tool length sensor with mach 4 but i don`t unterstand how i can use the measurement.
what i`ve done:
i use a Ethernet smoot stepper plugin.
and i`ve already configured my input as a probe.
if i press the button on my tool length probe, the probe light in the machine diagnostic is going on.
so i think the configuration is ok.
if i press a button (for example) z position "measure z" something like a macro is executing but few seconds later nothing happen and the enable switch is flashing green. my cnc machine is doing nothing.
is somebody here who can help me with the settings, should i configure something more? not just the input from the tool length sensor?

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Is somebody here who has expiriance with a mach4 handwheel

« on: December 03, 2016, 04:15:22 PM »

Ok, thank you for the information, this vista wheel seems not bad. First i will read on this page to choose the best wheel.
For what can i use d display on the wheel, are you recommend a display?

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Enable my interface with a Wachdog Signal? Possible?

« on: December 03, 2016, 01:40:02 PM »

Hi guys
Thank you for your help.
Now i have my smoot stepper and everything is working fine. Very nice is, the smooth stepper has 3 parallel ports now i'm searching for a handwheel which is working with mach 4. I have opened a new tread for this topic. Maybe sombody can halp me again  
Kind regards
And thank you for all
Beat

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Mach4 General Discussion / Is somebody here who has expiriance with a mach4 handwheel

« on: December 03, 2016, 01:29:48 PM »

Good evening

I've a question
Have somebody a handwheel togheter with mach 4 connectet?
Is this possible and which hand wheel is it?
I have a smooth stepper with 3 parallel ports.
all handwheels i found  was just for mach 3.
Thank you for our help.
Kind regards
Bear

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Enable my interface with a Wachdog Signal? Possible?

« on: November 03, 2016, 06:00:47 PM »

Good Evening

Today i received my new Computer.
the Computer is a Windows 7 64bit machine.
First i`ve started my installation from Mach4, everything was fine and Mach4 was running without a problem.
then  i want to install my parallel port plugin and ou no, it was not possible because of a visual c++ runtime problem.
i found out, the legacy parallel port is running only with windows 32bit.
ist this true or can i download everywhere a plugin for windows 7 64bit?

if not, which plugin i need for the above described Smooth Stepper Ethernet?

thank you all for your help, i`m confident that the machine works soon.

kind regards

beat

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Enable my interface with a Wachdog Signal? Possible?

« on: October 31, 2016, 06:14:03 PM »

good evening Stuart

thank you for your inputs, i know exactly what you mean.
i think i buy the ESS the next Days, but bevor i will have one last try with my new computer.
my last beginner cnc machin was a tron + it was a self made machine where i`ve learned a lot.
the controller was also conectet to my parallel port and the machine was working more or less well.
but i like the thoughts to control the machine over the Ethernet port. i think it`s definitly more serious
just a question from the money.

i wish you a good day

kind regards

beat

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Enable my interface with a Wachdog Signal? Possible?

« on: October 31, 2016, 10:03:33 AM »

Hi Steve

if i have a parallel port on my computer then i can connect my interface directly to the computer. i bought the parallel plugin for mach 4 so i think it should working... or i`m wrong?
you use the ess just for the connection to Ethernet or?

Have a good day.

beat