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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: complex probe moves not working

« on: December 23, 2020, 03:22:40 AM »

When I ran into this problem I started with the UC400 module. At a certain point I realized that the the UC400 driver is my problem in so many issues that I had to say the UC400 is not usable with Mach4 at all. So this as a warning to all.
I swapped the Ethernet board to the ESS and almost all problems disappear beside your problem mentioned above. From what I've learned so far Mach4 is making the preparation moves as probing moves in case it hits something. But in default configuration the ESS driver expects to hit something before the move is over. This does not happen with the preparation moves.
This behavior can be set up in the ESS config at the probing page. Here set the option not to generate an error if probing fails. Then it works.

Mike

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Probing

« on: December 02, 2020, 03:05:35 PM »

Did you switch off the "halt Mach on probing errors" on the probing page in ESS configuration?

Mike

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: complex probe moves not working

« on: October 21, 2020, 05:44:38 PM »

I am also starting to think it's an motion controller issue in connection with the build in Mach4 scripts.
Is there any source for self made LUA probing scripts for Mach4?

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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: complex probe moves not working

« on: October 21, 2020, 03:33:43 AM »

I am using an UC400 controller over Ethernet together with my Stepcraft M.500 machine. 3D touch probe is from Poland, Slavtec.
The thing is some probe moves do work and some more complex do not. I have no idea why.

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Mach4 General Discussion / complex probe moves not working

« on: October 20, 2020, 03:44:44 PM »

Hello, I try to get my new 3D touch probe working in Mach4, but I am puzzled with certain not working behavior. While simple probing like edge finding or z-finding works OK more complex moves like finding center of opposite edges do not work. Here the probe should move from the middle past the first edge, dive down and do its probe move.
In my Mach4 it only does the first x/y move behind the first edge and stops. Nothing more until Reset is pressed. Normally it should move down the z-axis to dive in, but it stops in middle of the probing script.
Anybody with an idea what's might going wrong?
I tried different z-settings and even the most recent developer version of Mach 4.2 without any success.

Mike

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Mach4 Plugins / Re: mcX360 Plugin for Lua

« on: August 03, 2020, 11:09:14 AM »

As a new Mach4 user I manged to get the x360 up and running. But there one little odd thing. My x360 controller is rumbeling (the force feedback motor) every second for a blink of an eye. Over and over again. This starts when the Mach4 is starting and the plugins are loading. I happens even without any LUA script installed. What can be wrong here?

Mike