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General Mach Discussion / Is there a way to set a shortcut key or Hotkey for Jog Increments? (MACH3)

« on: December 05, 2019, 12:04:01 AM »

So I'm making a pendant for my CNC that just sends basic key strokes to the computer. What I'm looking for is a way to set the jog increment based on a single button I click but I can't find any information on how to set the jog increment up using a hot key. (I'm not talking about alt+J, I'm not looking to cycle it, I want to click a specific increment)

So what I want to do is as follows
Press Switch 1 → Switch 1 sends a [hot key command] to computer → Jog increment set to 1.000
Press Switch 2 → Switch 2 sends a [hot key command] to computer → Jog increment set to 0.100
Press Switch 3 → Switch 3 sends a [hot key command] to computer → Jog increment set to 0.010
Press Switch 4 → Switch 4 sends a [hot key command] to computer → Jog increment set to 0.001
Press Switch 5 → Switch 5 sends a [hot key command] to computer → Jog increment set to 0.100

Now as far as hot key commands go, I'm trying to keep it simple like
Ctrl+Alt+Shift+I
Ctrl+Alt+Shift+O
Ctrl+Alt+Shift+P
Ctrl+Alt+Shift+[

and I'd like to not have to refer to some VB script or something even more extravagant than that.

For each increment. So if I hit Ctrl+Alt+Shift+I, the increment is set to 1.000, and if I hit Ctrl+Alt+Shift+P, the increment is set to 0.010 and if I hit Ctrl+Alt+Shift+O, it's 0.100 and so on.

And lastly, in case anyone is confused. I want to make these buttons essentially : https://i.imgur.com/pQkZUcm.png

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General Mach Discussion / Didn't read a warning message and now I can't jog

« on: June 27, 2018, 12:54:57 PM »

I'm new here so forgive me. I couldn't find anything searching

My setup:
I have 2 cncs running off one ESS, a mill and router. The router is on port 1 and the mill is on Port 2

(I'll have to get you the exact versions and stuff later, I thought I had them on my work computer but I don't)
Computer - Win8, either 4 or 6 GB of Ram, i5 processor Surface Pro1
Mach3 - the version suggested by Warp9
ESS - ~Approximately the Lastest as of Aug ~ 2016
Port 1:
TB6560

Port 2:
k4030L drivers into a C10 board into ESS

Problem: I can run gcode just fine, I just can't jog. I click the jog button, it lights for a fraction of a second then goes away. I hit Tab to get the MPG. I can hit shuttle, that blinks on/off in yellow. I cannot toggle jog, jog/cycle/step, I cannot jog with the triangles

What I think the message said:

Something something something "Ess Smooth stepper made a change, if you did not mean to make this change please contact support" Something something something.

I have no idea what that message said or meant or anything and everything went to s*** after it popped up

Here's what I was doing:
I was attempting to get a touch probe to work, the type where you ground one end to the endmill and the other to a plate. The mill then moves to touch the plate, then zero's the dro etc..

My 'problem' was that the TB6560 doesn't have a port for a probe. I figured, no worries, I'll just use the one off the other. So first I was checking to see if one of the extra ports on the TB6560 could sub as a pin for a probe, I started checking limit switch pins on Port1 going from 1,2,3 to 23,24,25 (IOW I set xhome, yhome, zhome and probe to pins 1,2,3,4 respectively. I then touched the ground clip to the plate and checked the 'LEDs' on the diagnostics page for action. Nothing lite up so I incremented them to 5,6,7,8 and so on to 25.)

After that, I had this "brilliant" thought to just use the probe pin on the C10 board, pin 12 or 13 (I forget which I had setup at the moment but we'll just assume it's 12 for this). So I went back into the Ports & Pins screen and changed the probe from Pin 25 Port 2, to Port 1 Pin 12.

When I closed the Ports & Pins screen, I got the pop up. usually that pop up is the ESS lost connection or something. This time it was something different but muscle memory took over and I closed it before reading it. I then attempted to jog the machine over to the plate and do the probe. I couldn't jog it. "Hmm... weird", I then noticed the Jog button on screen 1 was no longer lit. I clicked it on, and it went green then black again. Then I tried every other screen to see if I could jog it and nothing worked and that's when I might have cried or got something in my eye, I'm not sure...

Here's what I tried to fix it.

1) Tried every possible method to toggle jog on, MPG, TAB, Ctrl+ arrows, Shift + Arrows etc.
2) Turn everything off and on again.
3) Verified I could run GCode, I can so it's not a motor coms issue
4) Went back to settings I had backed up when the machine was first installed - Nothing...
5) I thought it was because ESS was seeing 6 Drivers, so I figured, eh, maybe it won't allow jogging because it doesn't know what I want to jog. So I uplugged port 1. No change..

((Frustration set in))

6) Uninstalled Mach and reinstalled it - Jog still doesn't work

To Do:

Tonight I am going to remove everything Mach and ESS related and start from 0, if that doesn't work... well lets not think about that just yet.