Messages

1

Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Problem. How to make a generic MPG work with Mach 4 Guide,

« on: October 21, 2018, 05:10:25 AM »

I’ve put the Mpg together and plugged it in, it works fine, the only thing I didn’t think of is to not use a enable button on the input voltage on the pulse generator wheel, it triggers A-B input every time the button is pressed, it’s a quick fix.

other than that it does what i want it to do? I’ve uploaded a video on YouTube that demonstrates the problem with the flashing buttons and no ref all home button,

https://youtu.be/ynx5scc5eAQ

2

Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Problem. How to make a generic MPG work with Mach 4 Guide,

« on: October 14, 2018, 03:56:48 AM »

That’s strange? Do you run a non-modified Mach 4 setup? Nothing is changed more than the ports&pins and so on? I doubt that reload would cut it for me due to custom macros and profiles “old files”  and so on. I still need to install and port all the pins for my mpg, then I’ll have a look at the things mentioned above “Coroutines” it may be that’s who’s causing the trouble,

3

Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Problem. How to make a generic MPG work with Mach 4 Guide,

« on: September 29, 2018, 05:45:37 PM »

My Mach 4 won’t lock up the gui when code is added.. so I’m not sure if it’s a coroutine?

4

Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Problem. How to make a generic MPG work with Mach 4 Guide,

« on: September 29, 2018, 11:29:36 AM »

I haven’t tried a pendant, just the code, but it seems like we have the exact same problem.

5

Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Problem. How to make a generic MPG work with Mach 4 Guide,

« on: September 22, 2018, 01:48:35 AM »

I understand why now, and this it might be the problem. but I don’t understand wich functions to edit?
when the code is added Mach won’t allow any jogging at all.

Why does it change the machine state? Or why would it block gui when the function is not called by axis select?  Maybe it’s enabled by default but before the code is added everything works great?

6

Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Problem. How to make a generic MPG work with Mach 4 Guide,

« on: September 21, 2018, 03:10:24 PM »

The problem is that I want the on screen jog functions to be enabled when no axis is selected on the MPG/Pendant? “Mpg disabled/inactive”

Ref all home won’t work when the code is added to the screen load script at all? With or without axis selected/keyboard jog on? Is it supposed to do that?

If I choose to use a pendant, Does it permanently disable “ref all home”  fuction? No matter what? I like to reference my machine at every startup of mach,

And don’t want to do it manually every time?

Hard to explain, but you understand the dilemma?

7

Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Problem. How to make a generic MPG work with Mach 4 Guide,

« on: September 21, 2018, 08:49:35 AM »

Ohh, I understand. So it could be the keyboard jog plugin?

8

Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Problem. How to make a generic MPG work with Mach 4 Guide,

« on: September 21, 2018, 12:21:49 AM »

Hello Craig! I remember you from last time thinkering with the vfd programming, “machtric S800e”


Gcode interpreter? Did we charge Anything in script? Or Marcos to make Gcode interpreter to behave wrong?
When it comes to mach/programming.. i dont understand the code/function I’ve tried to learn many many times but it’s hopeless

9

Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Problem. How to make a generic MPG work with Mach 4 Guide,

« on: September 20, 2018, 05:07:13 PM »

Ohh, Then I’m the only one who’s experiencing this problem at the moment, I can’t remember what is changed with my button scripts or screen load script, it has been a while since anything was changed? There is a whole thread about VFD fix “machtric S800E” that will explain most of the modifications, a few clever guys helped me to sort out the code for it to work, I know that I have custom macros M3 M4 M5 for spindle funciton, and code  for E-stop and so on, I think that something that’s added in to the script interferes with the MPG code?

But what?
As explained in the first post? Everything gets grayed out and not clickable, maybe it’s the copy of “keyboard jog on” button but even when keyboard jog is active it still works to jog with on screen buttons

Sorry about my English, not the best.. understand 89% but type/talk is hard...

10

Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Problem. How to make a generic MPG work with Mach 4 Guide,

« on: September 20, 2018, 02:46:23 PM »

No one who has any knowledge or info in the area?