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Mach4 Plugins / Keyboard Inputs plugin issues

« on: April 20, 2021, 06:15:46 AM »

Hi guys,
I upgraded my mill a few days ago from Mach 3 with parallel interface to the control system to Mach 4 and ESS.

The control system is the old one from "www.einfach-cnc" and i use the old handwheel from this company too.
The handweel has a USB connection to the computer and electric connection to the control and therefore ESS. Via the electric interface just the MPG and a reset button for the control system are connected and both work well.

All other buttons (Start/Pause/Stop Gcode, selection for Axis, Step increments,...) are connected via USB to the computer and therefore should work via the keyboard Input plugin. More or less as they did on Mach 3. I watched the "Keyboard Mapping" video and got a basic understanding for the LUA programming. I tried to mapp the buttons via the keyboards input plugin and it worked for some buttons without any problems (e.g. pressing on "Start G Code" at my handwheel shows "F7" or so in the plugin). Fine - i created a LUA code and it works already. I can start and pause the Gcode.

Now to the issue: The plugin recognizes many buttons just as "Left ALT (164)". Therefore they cant be "separated" by the plugin and therefore i cant use them. I am sure that the USB Handwheel in fact sends different signals for each button or it would have never worked in Mach 3. So it must have to do with the Keyboard Inputs plugin or some other setting e.g. on the computer. How can i fix this problem? Thanks!
Wolfgang

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Feature Requests / Time estimation until next Tool Change

« on: June 28, 2010, 02:54:07 AM »

Hi all,

think it would be a good idea to see the estimated time until the next Tool Change in Mach 3 V4.
I have often long programs >5h with a few TC inside. My machine has no automatic Toolchanger
so it would be very helpful to see the estimated time to the next TC in advance (best would be as DRO
selection then everybody can include it into their screens). At the moment thats even with macros not
possible.

See also thread: http://www.machsupport.com/forum/index.php/topic,14816.0.html

Thanks in advance!

Wolfgang

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VB and the development of wizards / Time estimation until tool change

« on: May 01, 2010, 05:28:45 PM »

Dear all,

due to the fact that i run quite long tap files and dont have a automatic tool changer on my mill i would like to know how long the estimated time
until the next tool change is. I didnt find much in the forum about that topic. Could somebody give me a hint how such a macro could look like?
Great would be of course to have a DRO which shows the time until next tool change and which is updated every minute or so. Possible?

Thanks in advance for your ideas and support!

Wolfgang