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General Mach Discussion / Odd spacebar behavior?

« on: May 22, 2007, 10:59:18 PM »

Has anyone experienced any issues with their space bar not working as feedhold but instead bringing focus to the Gcode window?  I am using Mach 2.0.065 with XP Pro.  This almost has to be a windows issue or perhaps a keyboard driver.  I copied my xml and screen set files to another pc running mach and the problem is not there.  I have aslo reinstalled mach from scratch.  If I check the scan code the space bar is 32 and it does work in other applications.  I have tried several keybaords and get the same results. When the spacebar is depressed the Gcode window gets highlighted and no feedhold.

Any Ideas?

Thanx CB

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G-Code, CAD, and CAM discussions / Proper M code Macro?

« on: February 23, 2007, 08:26:47 PM »

I have a Vacuum pump activated from Output 4 
I created a Macro M88.m1s which contains;  DeActivateSignal(output4)
I wanted to put an M1 and then an M88 at the end of my gcode to turn of the vacuum when the part was finished provided optional stop is not active.  That works fine.

However, If the Vacuum is running and I open a Gcode file into Mach, Mach somehow acts upon the M88 shutting down the vacuum, without running the Gcode.  It seems as if the quick run through mach does to generate the toolpath view calls the M88.  This is not the case with M5 for instance though.

Any Ideas as to how I can prevent this?

I am running Mach 3Version R2.0.040 now but I first noticed it with version 1.83.041
the end of my Gcode files looks like this:
N99 G0X0.0000Y0.0000Z3.0000
N100 M9
N101 M5
N102 G0Z3.0000
N103 G53 Z-1.000
N104 M1
N105 M88
N106 M30

Thanks!