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General Mach Discussion / Re: Moving settings to another computer

« on: September 22, 2017, 03:04:51 AM »

After all that, I discovered the Minimal screen and that's good enough with the stock display settings!  Thanks and appreciate the patience, Craig!

EDIT: Disregard, I found where to uninstall. 
Now, I'd like to uninstall and reinstall to start clean.  It's odd, but I see Mach3 in the uninstall programs but don't see a Mach4?  Strange.  Is it "safe" to just delete the Mach4Hobby off the hard drive and reinstall, or will this cause problems?

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Moving settings to another computer

« on: September 22, 2017, 02:38:36 AM »

Maybe I didn't understand the process?  I'm going to Operator-Edit Screen, then click on wx4, change Design Height, hit enter, then Screen-Save Screen, then back to Operator-Edit Screen (off).  

I do understand what you are saying about the changes needing to be small for this to work.  I've been changing the height in small increments and somewhere around 760 is where it needs to be to see the entire screen.  Any lower and the History, Profile, and Screen line is cut off.  I'll post a pic.  Take a look at the buttons.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Moving settings to another computer

« on: September 22, 2017, 02:07:24 AM »

Hi Craig,
I am seeing the effects of the changes in screen size. If I go higher than (going from memory...bad memory) say 600 and even up to 800+ I can see almost the bottom of the screen but some panels are covered like in the pic. If I go lower, say around 500, about half the screen isn't showing. I'll post some pics in a few.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Moving settings to another computer

« on: September 21, 2017, 10:24:09 PM »

Thanks for the added info, Craig.  I've tried 800 and also 500, 1000, etc. and nothing really fixes it.  I've discovered that you can resize the individual panels and such, but it's like a complete redesign of the screen would be necessary to fix this.  If I resize a panel, then the individual buttons or titles for the panel are messed up.  This doesn't seem to be the way to go.

I don't quite get it.  Mach3 had a super easy one click fix.  Do you think there's some other function hidden somewhere that will just fix it without modifying everything?  I will have enough on my plate just to figure out how to use Mach4 without first having to learn to design my own screen. 

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Moving settings to another computer

« on: September 21, 2017, 08:54:47 PM »

I found the View->Load Screen selection and I can see more of the screen but some panels are overlapping. Strange.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Moving settings to another computer

« on: September 21, 2017, 08:32:02 PM »

Thanks, Craig.  I tried to follow along and the screen editor page seemed to change so that I could see the bottom portion.  I'm using 1024x600 as that's what my display is set to.  I went to Screen->Save Screen and restarted Mach4, it took a little while to start up, and the main screen hasn't been fixed.  Confused...

I need to familiarize myself with Profiles and such as I understand what you're saying, but only in theory.  

The netbook I'm trying to use has an Atom 1.66GHz processor, 1 GB RAM, running 32-bit Windows 7...not sure what kind of video card.  This is less than recommended on the Artsoft website.  Anything I will be doing will be simple parts.  Is this computer going to be enough or is it marginal?

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Moving settings to another computer

« on: September 21, 2017, 02:21:59 PM »

Sorry, also wanted to ask about the ESS. I followed the instructions on the Warp9 site and got it up and running on Mach3. Can you have the ESS running on the same computer and run the lathe on Mach3 and the mill on Mach4, just by swapping the ESS between both machines and without changing anything on the ESS?  Hope that makes sense?  I was planning to buy a new motion controller but just sank my budget so that will have to wait a bit.

Also, does anyone have a Mouser part number for the ESS's power plug?

Thanks!

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Moving settings to another computer

« on: September 21, 2017, 02:18:02 PM »

Thanks for the replies, guys. I am somewhat challenged with a lot of things and have some, very limited, experiencing using Mach3. So, sticking with Mach3 would be easier but I think it would just be wiser to suffer a little more and go with Mach4.

Does anyone know how to adjust the screen in Mach4?  It doesn't look right and I can't see the bottom of the screen. Tweakie told me how to fix it in Mach3 but haven't been able to sort it for Mach4.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Moving settings to another computer

« on: September 19, 2017, 03:36:19 AM »

Awesome, Tweakie, that worked!  Thank you!  I can't seem to find the equivalent function in Mach4 though.

Also, would you happen to know how I can transfer my Mach3 setup from computer to the next?  Can you do this in demo mode?  And is the process the same for Mach3 and 4?

Btw, my decision for Mach3 vs Mach4 is for both lathe and mill. I started using the Mach3 demo on the lathe only because I built the lathe first (still buying parts for the mill at the moment). The mill (I think) will be used more often so I'd consider it the primary machine.

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Moving settings to another computer

« on: September 19, 2017, 02:04:55 AM »

Hi Tweakie,

I'm using an ESS and just the demo versions of the software. I'm trying to decide which version to go with...not sure what I should do.