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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: GO TO WORK ZERO - ERROR

« on: September 18, 2017, 07:44:03 PM »

All good.  Worked as per your excellent post Craig.  THANKS for your patience.

Cheers

Daryl

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: GO TO WORK ZERO - ERROR

« on: September 18, 2017, 04:00:47 PM »

Craig, THANKS for the comprehensive post.  I will tackle it today and let you know the outcome.

Cheers
Daryl

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: GO TO WORK ZERO - ERROR

« on: September 18, 2017, 03:20:06 AM »

Good question,

I updated because I got an Email from PMDX (the supplier of my BOB) stating there was an issue with their plugin and Mach4 and I needed to update both.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: GO TO WORK ZERO - ERROR

« on: September 18, 2017, 03:09:46 AM »

Hi Craig,

THANKS.....I am actually a scratch builder of  a very capable CNC machine. (Number 2) and I do take your point.

However, my philosophy on this is - I spend my dollars and purchase a piece of software.  I understand I have to set up I/O's, motor tuning etc and don't have an issue doing this.  I want to be able to come out to my workshop turn everything on and produce work.  Something that was happening for me without issue until I updated to the latest version.  Why should I then have to alter a script which I have never touched but now find is giving me an issue?



Cheers

Daryl

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: GO TO WORK ZERO - ERROR

« on: September 18, 2017, 01:40:53 AM »

Hi Guys,

I'm not  a programmer nor do I have any inclination to be one.  However. looks like I'm going to have to start learning to sort out the issue.  I have a general grasp of Gcode so I just have to see how and what file you are editing.  I only want to set X & Y to go back to work zero without any change in Z.

Sorry we're a bit slow in Australia......something to do with being upside down.  :-)

Cheers

Daryl

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: GO TO WORK ZERO - ERROR

« on: September 17, 2017, 05:25:45 PM »

Hi Craig,

Not really sure.  I built my first CNC and used this combination to great affect. It was cheap and bullet proof. Maybe a power limitation of the shield boards.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: GO TO WORK ZERO - ERROR

« on: September 17, 2017, 05:15:00 PM »

Or.....go the opposite way.  Arduino/GRBL with a simple sender program.  Works really well.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: GO TO WORK ZERO - ERROR

« on: September 17, 2017, 01:38:48 PM »

Hi Craig,

THANKS for your response.  I find MACH4 works great but the issue for me is I'm not interested in "playing" with any application to tune it or alter it other than setting up the motors.  My frustration is that it worked fine before the upgrade. 

Which module is the "Go to Work Zero" reference that I'm looking for and I will edit out the offending reference to A0?

CHEERS

Daryl

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Mach4 General Discussion / GO TO WORK ZERO - ERROR

« on: September 16, 2017, 06:10:14 PM »

Hi All,

I recently updated to MACH4 V 4.2.0.3481  and PMDX Plugin V.0.2.254.

Now when I hit the Go to Work Zero button in MACH4 I get the following message - "AXIS 3 COMMANDED WHILE DISABLED"   

The machine does not move to work zero.  Prior o updating to the above versions I had no issues running this command.
My Gcode files still run as expected.

Any suggestions to rectify this issue???

THANKS

Daryl

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: OPERATOR PASSWORD REQUIRED

« on: August 02, 2017, 12:22:38 PM »

THANKS Andrew - That's it.