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General Mach Discussion / Is there any way to tell which axis are slaved in VB or in a plugin?

« on: July 28, 2010, 10:43:52 AM »

Hi,

I am trying to find a way to see if an axis is currently slaved.  Is there any VB or C++ command that I use this to read this?  I already have a custom plugin so it would not be a problem to add this in.

Thanks,
Andrew

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General Mach Discussion / Has anyone successfully threaded with version Mach3 R3.042.036?

« on: February 02, 2010, 12:42:37 PM »

Hi Everyone,

Has anyone successfully threaded with version Mach3 R3.042.036?  I have not gotten it to thread correctly.  I have version R3.042.020 threading well but the current feed rate DRO is not even close to reading the right values.

Thanks,
Andrew

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General Mach Discussion / Problem with G76 taper!

« on: June 08, 2009, 11:32:56 AM »

Hi All,
I am having trouble getting G76 to work right!  I am trying to cut a thread with a 5 degree taper, but mach is only cutting a 2.5 degree taper.  I am working in diameter mode but I don't see how that would make it only cut half the angle because it is cutting the correct diameter.  I did try changing the “T” value to 10 and then it cut a 5 degree taper.

Any help would be great! 

Andrew with MachMotion

This is the gcode file I am running!
(***** OD Threading Cycle# 01.13 *****)
G18 G40 G49 G90 G80
T505 M6 H5
G20 (Inch)
G95 (Feed Per Minute Mode)
G97 S1200
M03 (Spindle Forward)
M08 (Flood)
G00 Z0.1
G00 X0.6
G76 X0.5318 Z-1.6 Q3 P0.055555556 J0.008 L0 H0.01 I29.5 C0.1 B0.003 T5
(* End Cycle# 01.13 OD Threading*)
M5 M9
M30

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General Mach Discussion / Need some help setting up a spindle gear shifter!!!

« on: October 01, 2008, 06:59:13 PM »

Hi All,

I am looking for some info on how to set up a spindle gear shifter.  If someone has a macro to do most of it, I could possibly edit it and make it work for me. 

The logic would be:
Enter a spindle speed, and then it will look up to see which gear to use based on the spindle speed in the pulleys.
If it needs to change gears stop the spindle.
Pause the motion.
Turn on out-put 1 for gear 1 and turn off out-puts 2 and 3.
      
The mill only has three gears:
Output 1 = gear 1 speed range 9-140 RPM
Output 2 = gear 2 speed range 180-450 RPM
Output 3 = gear 3 speed range 560-1400 RPM

I tried one shot at it and couldn’t get past the little error message that says “Too Fast for Pulley..Using Max.”  What I did would work if I could find a way to make it so when I entered a spindle speed faster or slower than the current pulley speed, it would change pulleys.

The reason I am having to use the pulley is for the scaling of the 0-10v to my VFD.

Any help would be great.

Andrew
 

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Modbus / Where can I download the plugin for the ModIO

« on: November 26, 2007, 03:48:12 PM »

Hi All,

Where can I download the plugin that is shown in the videos at http://www.machsupport.com/artsoft/videos.htm. There are three videos listed:

ModIO Modbus Video #1
ModIO Modbus Video #2
ModIO Modbus Video #2

Any help would be great!!

Or if there is a better plugin than the one shown in the videos, please please give me a link to it.

Andrew

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Mach3 and G-Rex / I need help configuring the I/O in Mach3 for the G101 or G100

« on: June 27, 2007, 05:27:16 PM »

Well I am a newbie here. But I have been looking every where for info on how to configure the ports and pins for the g-rex/g101 board in mach3. I have the manuals from gecko but they only tell the hardware side of the board not the software.