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Mach4 General Discussion / Remove USB button

« on: December 09, 2019, 09:22:41 AM »

Hi guys,

Is it possible to setup a physical button to safely remove a USB stick?
Would be neat to have one next to the USB port, instead of going through task bar on windows.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Popup - "Configure a correct IP adress"

« on: August 18, 2019, 03:08:10 PM »

Alright, then the show continues!
We don't have that advanced scripts, only a couple of buttons besides the ones that came with the mach install. So That would be ruled out.
We have a Pokeys57E, used for some buttons.. Perhaps that's the culprit.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Popup - "Configure a correct IP adress"

« on: August 17, 2019, 05:53:45 AM »

Hi,
Yes, we are aware that we're using our own IP-adress, it's because we don't have direct connection between Mach and ESS.
We have a ethernet switch in between for some reasons. But it shouldn't be a problem, and as I said the machine do work. We're just getting this pop-up that we would like to get rid of.

It started to popup after we upgraded both Mach and ESS pluging. Earlier, using the same IP-setup we didn't encounter this.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Popup - "Configure a correct IP adress"

« on: August 16, 2019, 04:09:05 PM »

Hi,

We are getting this pop-up telling us "Check the device configuration - configure a correct IP adress"
However, the IP is correct for our setup. Mach and ESS can communicate and the machine works. It's just quite annoying getting this at every startup.

I think we are using 4.2.0.3882 + ESS plugin V245.

According to W9TD, this isn't an ESS popup, leaving me with no other options than it is Mach that throws them.

Suggestions or is it possible to tweak the code for next release?

Regards

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Mach4 General Discussion / Dynamic milling, slipping axis/missing steps?

« on: March 12, 2019, 04:42:19 PM »

Hello,

We're using Mach 4+ESS (latest stable, official release, 3804 i beleive) with ESS plugin 220.
The machine is a 1986 years DynaMyte 4400 with stepper motors that are rated 2000 Velocity, however we don't have official values for acceleration from Dyna.

We have tested with 2000vel/500acc, and machine starts to loose steps, so we've reduced to 1500/150 and this what we currently are running on.

The machine is configurated with backlash compensation, the backlash is within 0,01mm during tests. The compensation is set to 0,0135

We have milled a moped crankcase using dynamic milling, which is a quite aggressive form of milling. Now that the crankcase is finnished we notised that tha halfs are offsetted by 0,4mm from eachother, which is quite alot. During milling we never noticed axis slippage, but apparently something have went pretty wrong. It's only the Y-axis that's affected, the roundness of bearing seat is within 0,01mm, but the offset between pieces are 0,4mm

Our first thought is that BC might be the culprit? Noticed that some fixes have been made in recent ESS release, but don't know what the issue was?
Our other thought, is that dynamic milling is too much for either the machine or ESS during some tight turnarounds at the end of each cut?

Any one else experienced such problems? shouldn't 1500/500 be safe when 2000/500 was the point when we notices axis slippage during calibration and Dyna states 2000 to be possible.

This is one of the Dynamic mills we ran.[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EoO38Bt-wcg[/video]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EoO38Bt-wcg

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Signal scripts while disabled.

« on: February 27, 2019, 03:54:24 PM »

Hi,
Thats one way of solving it! As for us we added a check of state in the script to determ weither machine was enabled or not which is working aswell.
The topics main purpose is to understand why mach allow an output to enable but discards mcSignalWait while disabled.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Signal scripts while disabled.

« on: February 27, 2019, 03:34:45 PM »

Hi,
Yes, as they are Signals scripts they are in the SigLib{} of the load screen script.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Signal scripts while disabled.

« on: February 27, 2019, 03:30:59 PM »

Physical, connected to a ESS board

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Signal scripts while disabled.

« on: February 26, 2019, 10:04:57 AM »

Any comments?

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Mach4 General Discussion / Signal scripts while disabled.

« on: February 24, 2019, 10:32:33 AM »

Hi guys,

Yesterday we implemented the drawbar to Mach and I noticed something I can't really understand.
The drawbar have 2 limit switches and 2 buttons.

When mach is enabled, the drawbar works perfect, buttons enable outputs and the limit switches disables them.
However, when mach is disabled, the signal script do enable the output and the drawbar starts to clamp/unclamp and here's where the strange stuff comes in. The signal script don't listen for the limit switches, making the draw bar trying to move further than the end positions.

We ended up starting the signal script with a check of mach state, and only let it continue the script if mach is enabled, which ofcourse is good, since we don't want anything to be able to move while disabled.

But I'm curious why the signal script let an output to enable, but discards the mcSignalWait while mach is disabled?
IMHO Either all should work or nothing should work, not parts of signal scripts.