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General Mach Discussion / Mach3 Ref All Homing gets hung up

« on: February 19, 2021, 06:37:23 PM »

When homing I have an occasional problem with homing the Y Axis (my machine uses individual steppers, Hall Effect sensors for limits, Mach3 & SmoothStepper USB).

Most of the time I get M1/2/3 and M5 Home working and the machine backs off the sensor deactivates.

Occasionally one side or the other doesn't clear the sensor causing a limit switch error. If I power down the steppers and push that side off and retry it usually works. But, today it didn't. It kept tripping and then it also switched sides in the Y.

Really frustrated and would appreciate some help.

Thank you

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Mach SDK plugin questions and answers. / Re: XBox360 Controller Plugin New User Info

« on: December 18, 2020, 07:02:58 PM »

Working! But I don't know why. I reinstalled Xbox Controller and the Xbox 360_64Eng and the errors stopped showing up on startup. Then I could edit the Xbox plugging. Closed and reopened and the controller worked.

Novec thank you for your help. Hopefully someone else learns from our experiences.

Thank you,
Dan

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Mach SDK plugin questions and answers. / Re: XBox360 Controller Plugin New User Info

« on: December 18, 2020, 04:25:18 PM »

So that didn't work. I used your link and was asked where it should go - odd, right? I found something on MS website that said to put it anywhere in the computer so I did. But, it didn't help.

I'm running version .062 because it's what SmoothStepper recommended. Should I go further into the post to use the Xbox controller?

Another interesting thing. I tried the Xbox Shilling and it fails too.

Thank you,
Dan

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Mach SDK plugin questions and answers. / Re: XBox360 Controller Plugin New User Info

« on: December 18, 2020, 03:30:43 PM »

There was nothing to it, really. Just remember that it's a two step process - the downloaded executable just unzips everything to a folder you specify, then you open that folder and run the install file. I didn't realize that before I'd downloaded three or four different versions... Which also means I'm not entirely sure which version I ended up installing.

hahaha, good stuff.

So you just downloaded an old version and Win10 let you install it instead of 12? Cool.

Thank you,
Dan

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Mach SDK plugin questions and answers. / Re: XBox360 Controller Plugin New User Info

« on: December 18, 2020, 02:32:45 PM »

You still have to install DirectX 9, as it has some components that are changed or not included in later versions. I think I installed this one when I set up a new Win10 machine last week: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=8109

Thank you, I'd like to give that a try but all my searches from Microsoft say you can't. Obviously that's not true but I don't know which website instructions to trust. Can you tell me how you did it?

Thank you,
Dan

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Mach SDK plugin questions and answers. / Re: XBox360 Controller Plugin New User Info

« on: December 18, 2020, 12:44:20 PM »

Hello,
I'm getting an error "XBox360Controller.dll Defective Plugin Found - Ignoring"

I spoke to someone at Mach Support who suggested the Plugin may not work with Win10. It worked last week but I had to completely wipe my hard drive and reinstall.

I'm using Mach version .062 because it was recommended by the SmoothStepper folks and a wireless Microsoft Xbox controller.

Any advice?

Thanks in advance,
Dan

Any thoughts?
I am running DirectX 12 which was probably from the complete reinstall of Win10.
Xbox driver is 10.0.19041.1 WinBuild 160101.0800
As I said I have a genuine Xbox wireless controller.

I really, really miss the Xbox controller. Any help would be appreciated.

Thank you,
Dan

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Mach SDK plugin questions and answers. / Re: XBox360 Controller Plugin New User Info

« on: December 16, 2020, 05:26:47 PM »

Hello,
I'm getting an error "XBox360Controller.dll Defective Plugin Found - Ignoring"

I spoke to someone at Mach Support who suggested the Plugin may not work with Win10. It worked last week but I had to completely wipe my hard drive and reinstall.

I'm using Mach version .062 because it was recommended by the SmoothStepper folks and a wireless Microsoft Xbox controller.

Any advice?

Thanks in advance,
Dan

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Plugin DLL Defective - Mach3

« on: December 13, 2020, 05:25:48 AM »

Hi,
Mach3 and a SmoothStepper.

Last night I lost all the other plugins. So I reinstalled Mach3 after uninstalling it through Win10.

I created profiles during the install as recommended. But, all the plugins failed anyway.

I redid Win10 because I got malware. I've run malwarebytes and Windows scans multiple times and they say it's gone. I'm a bit worried it's not gone.

But, maybe another fresh Mach3 install will do it?

Thank you,
Dan

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General Mach Discussion / Re: Plugin DLL Defective - Mach3

« on: December 12, 2020, 08:59:40 PM »

Anyone have any ideas? I'd really appreciate some help.

Thank you,
Dan

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General Mach Discussion / Plugin DLL Defective - Mach3

« on: December 11, 2020, 06:03:53 PM »

Hi,
I'm getting a weird error and hoping someone can help.  I just re-did my Win10 install and now I can't see motor tuning and get Plugin DLL Defective and my X-Box controller wont work.  I re-downloaded the X-Box controller and deleted the old one but it did not help.

Thanks in advance,
Dan