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General Mach Discussion / DRO shows movement, but machine does not move.
« on: July 21, 2013, 11:09:56 AM »
Hello.
I am currently refurbishing my cheap Chinese laser. I am using a demo copy of Mach3(I do intend to purchase the full licence if I can get the laser to work). I had the machine working and tuned the motores, and ran a short test program, and everything seemed to be working as expected. I do allot of engraving for promotional items, and would really like to be able to use raster engraving to do the lettering.
Yesterday I downloaded the Laser raster plugin, and attempted to get that working. I received the #9991 error, so I tried to use the Special driver to see if it would work. I didn't have much luck, and now the machine will not move at all.
I uninstalled Mach3, and re installed to see if that would correct things, but had no success.
The DRO's change when I press the arrow keys, but there is no movement of the axis. One thing I did notice, is that when the Laser was working properly(before I messed it up) the axis would lock when power was turned on. Now I can move them with my fingers.
I've rechecked the setting in both the output, and input configurations, and I can't see any problems.
If anyone has had this problem before, can you kindly suggest a way to fix it?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
John
I am currently refurbishing my cheap Chinese laser. I am using a demo copy of Mach3(I do intend to purchase the full licence if I can get the laser to work). I had the machine working and tuned the motores, and ran a short test program, and everything seemed to be working as expected. I do allot of engraving for promotional items, and would really like to be able to use raster engraving to do the lettering.
Yesterday I downloaded the Laser raster plugin, and attempted to get that working. I received the #9991 error, so I tried to use the Special driver to see if it would work. I didn't have much luck, and now the machine will not move at all.
I uninstalled Mach3, and re installed to see if that would correct things, but had no success.
The DRO's change when I press the arrow keys, but there is no movement of the axis. One thing I did notice, is that when the Laser was working properly(before I messed it up) the axis would lock when power was turned on. Now I can move them with my fingers.
I've rechecked the setting in both the output, and input configurations, and I can't see any problems.
If anyone has had this problem before, can you kindly suggest a way to fix it?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
John