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General Mach Discussion / M3 not working

« on: October 16, 2014, 08:02:27 AM »

I need to copy an configuration xml file to a new name for example 540b.xml to Buzz4x8.xml.  Only when i do this everything seems to work but the M3 function (I suspect more but this is all I see for now).  I copied the macro\540b to macro\buzz4x8 but it does not seem to get it working either.  Any idea what I need to do to get the new xml working?

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G-Code, CAD, and CAM discussions / M3 not working

« on: October 15, 2014, 03:37:58 PM »

Ported an existing install of Mach 3 from one machine to another... EVERYThing works fantastically except M3

I can use the spindle and mist button on the diagnostics page to start the spindle with either Mist toggle and Spindle toggle which are both set to use the port, #1 pin 17.
I can use M7 and M9 which use the exact same port configuration and M3... but nothing happens when I use M3.  Very strange, actually rather confused...

Its almost like something is mapping M3 to do something different than the setup of it under  Spindle Setup  Where I have M3, M4 and M7 setup at Output #1, and then under output signals I have Output 1 setup a port 1, ping 17.  Again m7 works but m3 does not.

If I change it up so m3 uses port 2 and setup port 2 as pin 17 same problem.

So how can something take away access to M3 and maybe M5?