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VB and the development of wizards / Turn on/off the Tool Change LED

« on: December 02, 2009, 04:40:53 PM »

Ok,  I'm just getting into this stuff, and I have an obviously easy/stupid question.  I want to do a very simple manual tool change. In M6Start.m1s, it just raises the Z up and does a M00 to stop so the tool can be changed.  But I want to enable the tool change LED to warn me it's time to change tools.  Is that even possible?  I've been searching for the past hour or 2, but haven't found anything that references that LED.

Thanks!

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VB and the development of wizards / Crazy VB G0 Problem

« on: June 17, 2009, 12:53:45 AM »

Ok, I don't claim to be the smartest guy when it comes to VB, but I must not even be close.  I'm trying to do something as simple as:

Code "G0 x20.0 y10.0"

While IsMoving()
WEnd

Running that script in the Mach VB editor causes both the X and Y axis to become jerky, lose major steps, and finally stop not even close to 20,10.

If I just move in one axis direction at a time (Code "G0 x20.0"), it "usually" works, but it still has issues sometimes.  Both at the same time cause major issues.  I can put the exact G0 line in the MDI  screen and it works flawlessly.  What am I missing?  There must be some setting in Mach 3 that I don't have set right.  I've been searching for hours but haven't found another post like this.  Sorry if it's been covered before and I couldn't find it.  I'm sure it's something stupid that I'm just not getting.  What I'm trying to do is move the table to a certain position to manually change a tool.  I thought it would be an easy task, but I guess not.  Thanks for ANY help!!!

Clueless