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General Mach Discussion / Touch Plate Problem

« on: July 13, 2019, 10:53:29 AM »

I finally got all Homing and Limit switches wired and they work beautifully but now the problem is I can't get my touch off plate to work anymore. It seems that all my "Pins" are used on my breakout board. Is there a way to work around this problem?
By the way I'd like to thank all you guys that help us with our problems. You put a lot of time and effort into helping  and sometimes with
out even getting a thank you (I'm guilty of that). I see on most of the problems that is presented on this forum, hundreds of people read the
problems and your answers to them. Believe me when I say "You guys are Greatly Appreciated" There are a lot of newbies like me that are
getting into CNC's with out having a Background in CNC'n or any type of knowledge about  them and it is daunting and confusing.
You guys that help are Bright Stars in the Night.
Thank You

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General Mach Discussion / Bad Circles

« on: March 31, 2019, 12:25:06 PM »

Y-axis stalls when cutting circles but not when cutting squares. I'm using Vectric Aspire software. Vectric Aspire kind of blames Mach3 for the problem. Anything to that?

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General Mach Discussion / Motors won't turn

« on: August 14, 2011, 02:59:32 PM »

Sirs; after building my BlackToe 2 x 4 and installing Mach3 Release 2.63; I used the videos
on Mach3 Website to configure my setting and everything was working fine. Today I downloaded the new Mach3 R3.043.022 version and now I can't get the motors to turn/run.
They won't move using the key board or by running a gcode program. I configured the newer version with the same setting as the older version. (I made copies of the setting to follow.
Can anyone help me? Let me tell you this first! I am a total newbie, when I purchased the unit I had no experience at all with a cnc router. I am now studying Autodesk Inventor Pro and AutoCAD, reading everything about Mach3 that I can find and using a study Book named "The CNC Workshop by Frank Nanfara. Folks my brain is about fried, so please be gentle and please help. I tested all the port pins and the other hardware and they all specked
out. I loaded the Road Runner gcode and it ran fine on the screen but the motors still aren't turning. I'd appreciate any help.
Thanks
Larry