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FAQs / 5th axis display

« on: August 05, 2016, 06:24:22 AM »

I'm trying to set up steppers on the A and B axes under Mach3. The 4th axis DRO on the display  only shows the A axis and I can't seem to find out how to switch it to display B or C. I'm sure there must be a way to do this otherwise they would have just labelled it A rather than 4. I know I am going to feel really stupid when one of you tells me how to do this. Many thanks.

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General Mach Discussion / A problem writing macros

« on: October 20, 2011, 11:09:38 AM »

I am trying to convert my mill with Mach3 and I've run into a bit of a problem. I want to toggle an output bit to control a solenoid to lock my Z axis. I wrote two macros ( M64 and M65) as follows:
M64
ActivateSignal(output4)
and M65
DeactivateSignal(output4)
I set up the output to connect to the right pin and put these in my profile macro folder as M64.mls and M65.mls. I can't see that there is anything else to do but when I try these under MSI nothing happens. What am I doing wrong? I would be very grateful for some help.