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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Nooby in need of help!

« on: January 13, 2021, 09:50:25 AM »

Thank you for the response. That explains why I was unable to get my Proma 150 THC to work correctly. I just purchased shielded cable to rewire my CNC steppers and limit switches. Hopefully that will eliminate any interference issues. I assume the controller you are referring to is the Warp9 smooth stepper? I will look into changing out the UC100 controller. I really do appreciate the help. It is difficult getting this sorted out when you have a DIY machine. I will no doubt be back with additional questions. Thanks again.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Nooby in need of help!

« on: January 12, 2021, 09:48:48 AM »

Help needed with Mach4 Setup
I am a nooby to cnc plasma. I built my own CNC. I am transitioning from Mach3 demo to Mach4. I Attempted to get help from New Fangled Solutions without any success. Hopefully someone with more experience than me can help me get this set up. I installed home and limit switches along with Mach4, but have since disconnected the switches out of pure frustration. My guess is that I had something wrong in the I/O settings. NFS was no help at all and refused to even look at the spreadsheet they provide to transition from M3 to M4 and advise on settings. So much for support.

So I now have the CNC Plasma running G code snippets, but when I attempt to run one of the included G code examples, it runs about three lines of code and I get the error message “Z axis commanded over soft min”. I had this CNC running code and cutting using Mach3, but I did not have any limits, soft or hard, setup at the time. I have tried different settings in Homing and Limits configuration, but still get the same message. I have the z axis soft limits set to the following: neg dir; home offset 0.5; speed 20%; Home in Place enabled; soft enable checked; soft min -1.0; soft max 3.0.

I am running Win7, 32 bit, using a UC100 controller, running the most current ver of mach4 (licensed) with three axes. JK02 BOB, TB1-H drivers.
I/O settings as follows:
Inputs
X axis Limit:    port 1 pin 10 Input1
Y axis Limit:    port 1 pin 11 Input2
Z axis Limit:    port 1 pin 12 Input3
E-Stop:   Port 1 pin 15 Input5

Outputs
Pin1 enable signal
Pin2 X axis step
Pin3 Y axis dir
Pin4 B axis step
Pin5 A axis dir
Pin6 A axis step
Pin7 Z axis step
Pin8 Z axis dir
Pin9 Spindle motor
Pin14 x axis dir
Pin16 Y axis step
Pin17 B axis dir

Hope I supplied the needed info. Thanks for any help!