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General Mach Discussion / Pulsing to fast, ACPI to standard pc

« on: May 15, 2020, 05:55:24 PM »

Steppers are stopping, and missing steps. tried changing Vref on stepper controller, changing speed and velocity in motor tune with no luck. tried changing the ACPI to standard, but I dont see a standard driver when I look for it. I can only get 40IPM out of the steppers and need at least twice that.
Running probotix pbx-rf breakout, sidestepper controllers at 1.5A, 280oz in steppers, 1/4 20 screws. 

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General Mach Discussion / Port and Pin number for output

« on: August 12, 2019, 09:52:01 PM »

I have a laser on my machine and have it hooked to output 1 on my Break out board. I have output 1 checked in ports and pins, but dont know what port and pin to enter to make it work.
I know it will work, used to have it set before computer crash, but didnt write it down.

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General Mach Discussion / Paralell Port address

« on: August 12, 2019, 04:34:25 PM »

Trying to figure this out. computer crashed and reloaded Win7, and all the drivers, on the LPT1 it shows I/O CFE8-CFEF, I/O CFE0-CFE7, on LPT2 it shows i/o DEFC-DEFF. What do I use to enter into Mach3 port? Or is there a way to change it?

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General Mach Discussion / Mach Driver and Port Address

« on: April 15, 2019, 06:13:03 PM »

So finally got a paralell port card to work in Win 10, It shows up in ports on device manager, but cant find the port address that goes in Mach, also when I run driver test it says "No Driver Sensed" . Where can I get the driver? I tried rerunning the install, but it doesnt show what it is installing.

Thx for any help

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Video P*r*o*b*i*n*g / Paralell Port Setting

« on: February 02, 2019, 01:15:42 PM »

Where in Win7 do I find the 0x? to input in the Ports and Pins settings. I have a pci add on card, it shows it in Device Manager, but dont see any number that looks like that.

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General Mach Discussion / PCI Parallel port with 64 bit Win 7

« on: March 07, 2016, 03:14:04 PM »

Got a new computer with MSI motherboard No onboard DB25 port.Installed PCIe card. I cant change the setting for the card in properties, checked the BIOS to see if there was any setting for activating a port. Did I just spend a bunch of money for nothing?

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Newfangled Solutions Mach3 Wizards / Got license, Won't do over 20k lines of code.

« on: January 04, 2016, 08:47:53 PM »

I bought the license last year, now today it won't let me write over 20k lines in the digitize wizard. Are licenses timed? Do I have to purchase yearly?

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Mach3 and G-Rex / Mach 3 not running digitize app correctly

« on: June 25, 2015, 08:00:06 PM »

When I try and run it is not asking me to save to file, and has an all red surface in the view box. Usually I see a yellow lines build in as each pass is done. Set up on it is x=4", y=2.75", z height .875. step over .025. feed 20. I also tried .03 step over with same result. I have full version(licensed) on a win7 machine. Any clues as to why this is happening?

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General Mach Discussion / Saving a 3d digitize

« on: January 15, 2015, 08:14:18 PM »

OK got my machine running. Now cant figure out how to safe a file I can open in bobcad that will see the point cloud. I attached a file using the dig wizard. I think it was just the NC code it generated to scan the surface.

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General Mach Discussion / Probe set up in Mach 3

« on: January 10, 2015, 06:22:10 PM »

Im using the Probotix parallel controller board. I have the probe hooked to the neg, and Z for the limit switch. I have set up the probe in ports and pins, with port 1 pin 6. When I go to setting tab, and trip the probe by hand the pin 6 light activates. But when I try to run the digitizing wizard the probe is not working. Am I missing something? Or wrong setting somewhere?