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Newfangled Solutions Mach3 Wizards / Mach3, Mill Wizard not seeing license

« on: January 06, 2014, 08:46:03 AM »

Hi,
I'm running Mach3 on my Win7 laptop and just installed NFS Mill Wizard. I seem to be having  a couple of problems.
One, Mach3 keeps telling me that Mill Wizard is unlic., which it's not. If I bring up the Mill wizard it shows my license as good. I tried to put a copy of the lic. in my Mach3 folder as "MillWizardlic.dat" but M-3 still doesn't recognize it.

The other problem I'm having is in Mill Wizard itself. If I start a new job, say a drill pattern, it doesn't show up on the blue screen in Wizard. I tried reloading the program but no good.

Latest version of Mill Wizard as of 1/5/14.

Thanks for your help,
Rob

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General Mach Discussion / Mill Wizard, Mach3 doesn't see license

« on: January 05, 2014, 06:32:41 PM »

Hi,
I'm running Mach3 on my Win7 laptop and just installed NFS Mill Wizard. I seem to be having  a couple of problems.
One, Mach3 keeps telling me that Mill Wizard is unlic., which it's not. If I bring up the Mill wizard it shows my license as good. I tried to put a copy of the lic. in my Mach3 folder as "MillWizardlic.dat" but M-3 still doesn't recognize it.

The other problem I'm having is in Mill Wizard itself. If I start a new job, say a drill pattern, it doesn't show up on the blue screen in Wizard. I tried reloading the program but no good.

Latest version of Mill Wizard as of 1/5/14.

Thanks for your help,
Rob

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General Mach Discussion / Spindle indexing/timing setup

« on: February 15, 2009, 04:43:32 PM »

Hi All,
I’m setting up my small mill and I want to monitor the rpms of my spindle drive motor. It’s easy to use the “index” option in the “input pins” for a once per revolution reading but there seems to be no way to scale the result.

Here’s what I did to test it out. I sent a 100 Hz. Pulse, 3msec. width, 5 Vpk to pk, from an Agilent ARB.waveform generator to an LPT port (I used pin 11) to see what Mach 3 would show. It showed 6000 rpms. That translates to 1/100 = 10 msec for each pulse or as expected 100 pulses per second at 60 sec = 6,000.

That’s all well and good but I want to set up a disk with 6 or 8 divisions for better accuracy.

Art’s information says you can use the “timing” in the “input pins” config. but he gives no information on how to do this that I can find.

If I set the timing pin to a port, say the same port I used for the index I get no rpm reading in Mach 3 for spindle rpms.  I can set both the index and the timing pin to pin 15 but this just gives me my 6,000 rpms. If I go to the “Calibrate Spindle” screen the “pulses per revolution” can not be changed, so there must be something I’m missing.

I did go into the pulley section but this is not applicable to this.

Any help is appreciated.

I wish Art would straighten this out or give us a method to resolve it. I’ve searched extensively and no one seems to have an answer for this.

Thanks,
Rob

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General Mach Discussion / A couple of questions

« on: January 27, 2009, 02:10:39 PM »

Hi Gang!
I'm really enjoying this CNC stuff!
A couple of things.
MY EDA program puts out a g54 code for my PCB drills. Trouble is that it is mills (.001 inches) and I can't convert it to inches when I load the code. Is there a simple way to convert the mills in Mach3?

I can run it in D2NC and it works but it's a little bit of a pain to build the files for each tool change.

Also is there a way to stop the program for tool changes? I know about the g-code but my machine just runs past it. I'm going to set up an optical sensor for my spindle, when i stop the spindle will the program wait till it restarts before advancing?

I'm running a Sherline 2000 mill.

Thanks for the help,
Rob