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General Mach Discussion / Japanese version computer, errors in write wizard
« on: March 18, 2010, 01:29:46 AM »
Hi all,
I have had my little mill up and running for about a year now, and have been having a lot of fun.
I have one persistent problem though: the write wizard that came with mach3 does not work. I have read several posts about people having teething problems with getting it to work. I really hope someone can point out some little detail I am missing and it will all be simple... but i don`t think it is a problem to do with basic input, as I have tried several times to make sure I am inputting in all fields.
With all relevant fields filled in, I can not get any Gcode output at all. As soon as I start typing the letters in, I instantly get an error.
I am no computer expert, but I suspect that this problem is to do with my computer. I live in Japan, and my computer is a Japanese version, meaning it has a Japanese keyboard. I have heard that this means that the character data/ byte size is different, even for roman numerals, so it would seem this might be causing some kind of problem that makes the software go cross-eyed and generate my errors.
today I tried re-installing to the latest lockdown version of mach3, in case this might help, but no luck.
I really would appreciate any input here, as having a cncdriven mill but not being able to do text is rather like a cake without icing!
...Apologies in advance for for any newbie-ness
Stefan
I have had my little mill up and running for about a year now, and have been having a lot of fun.
I have one persistent problem though: the write wizard that came with mach3 does not work. I have read several posts about people having teething problems with getting it to work. I really hope someone can point out some little detail I am missing and it will all be simple... but i don`t think it is a problem to do with basic input, as I have tried several times to make sure I am inputting in all fields.
With all relevant fields filled in, I can not get any Gcode output at all. As soon as I start typing the letters in, I instantly get an error.
I am no computer expert, but I suspect that this problem is to do with my computer. I live in Japan, and my computer is a Japanese version, meaning it has a Japanese keyboard. I have heard that this means that the character data/ byte size is different, even for roman numerals, so it would seem this might be causing some kind of problem that makes the software go cross-eyed and generate my errors.
today I tried re-installing to the latest lockdown version of mach3, in case this might help, but no luck.
I really would appreciate any input here, as having a cncdriven mill but not being able to do text is rather like a cake without icing!
...Apologies in advance for for any newbie-ness
Stefan