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General Mach Discussion / X Axis hesitation

« on: October 02, 2017, 11:44:19 AM »

I have been working with several customers that are using the Bend-Tech Dragon tube plasma cutter and running Mach3 to control the machine. We are discovering an issue where on the last cut of square tubing, the x-axis (length of tubing) is having a delay in movement when changing directions. This is causing the end cut of the tubing to not line up with itself anymore. This issue can be corrected occasionally by changing the Lead-in/Lead-out location for that cut. We have compared the g-code files for the two cuts, and the values are all identical. Are there any known bugs within Mach3 when working with 4 axis or using Inverse Time Feedrate that would cause a delay in any of the given axis commands?

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General Mach Discussion / Unexpected ESS error

« on: March 10, 2017, 05:28:13 PM »

I have a customer that has been using his machine for some time now and recently started getting an error message. The error reads "Incorrect data read in ATR from CM: 5 times. The plugin will not function." I have never seen this error before and have tried my extend of knowledge to diagnose and troubleshoot for this customer. We have had them try reinstalling Mach 3 ver3.043.066, reinstalling the ESS plugin (latest version). Disabling Windows defender and uninstalling anti-virus. If anyone has any other ideas to try, please let me know. I can try to get the xml and other files if requested.

Thanks,
KK

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Mach4 General Discussion / Mach4 going into non-responsive state.

« on: September 30, 2015, 01:14:01 PM »

Hello all. I have a new issue that has arisen. I am running a very minimal component setup (ESS, BOB, Motors, 1 button, 1 LED). I have been running DazTheGas's logging script. I have attached a screen shot of the log file, my task manager and Mach4 in the background during the non-responsive state. The issue occurs after running a part continuously/repeatedly. Sometimes 5 hours of running, sometimes 15 minutes. Its almost as if the program gets stuck in a processing loop/stack overflow state, However there is no exception being thrown. Just not responding. The PC is Windows 10 64-bit, Intel Pentium G2030 @ 3.00GHz, 8GB RAM.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Homing

« on: August 25, 2015, 02:40:09 PM »

I've been digging through these forums and the Warp9 forums and nothing is appearing to be working for me. I have 4 axis on my machine, but only 3 of them require homing. The Y axis is a rotational axis and set to Home in Place. I can not use the A axis as the rotational because then I wouldn't be able to use G2 and G3 to create arcs. The issue I am having is the X and Z axis home wonderfully and back off the switches after they make contact. The A axis however does not. It moves to the switch like its supposed to, then just stops when it makes contact. All three switches are wired in series. It isn't a crappy switch issue either. When the A axis is moving, I have manually activated the X Home Switch (same circuit) and it still just stops. even if I hold the switch in. I have included my machine settings file. If anyone has any insight, it would be much appreciated.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Motor tuning

« on: June 11, 2015, 03:03:18 PM »

I am trying to set up my machine so that there is very little to no user interaction within MACH4. The machine is a plasma tube cutter and I am treating the rotation about the tube as the Y axis and the length of the tube as the X axis. If a different type or size of material is loaded into the machine, I need to change the velocity and acceleration of the Y axis to match the proper material. I have a document that is being read in by MACH that contains the tube diameter and material type along with the proper motor tuning settings, but I need to be able to change the motor tuning programmatically (with lua or such). I dont want the user to have to go into the configuration or any additional settings. It all needs to be stupid simple. If there is a way to do it now, any help would be appreciated. If an SDK is required, please have any of the MACH 4 dev team pm me. My company really would like this feature with in our machine or something of similar nature.

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Mach4 General Discussion / MACH4 with Pendant

« on: April 24, 2015, 05:46:36 PM »

I am looking at building a machine that has a handheld pendant (wireless or not) and I would like to use Mach4 as Mach3 will be going out of style in the near-ish future. Has anyone had any success with a pendant of any kind using Mach4? If yes, what brand/kind works and what doesn't work? I know it's all dependent on if the manufacture has developed the plugin or not, but I'm having one hell of a time trying to find any pendant that will work with Mach4.

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Mach4 General Discussion / Display html page using LUA

« on: March 20, 2015, 11:51:54 AM »

I am having a beach of a time trying to find this in any of the lua documentation online, perhaps someone on here knows the solution to my problem.

In Mach3 I could easily call an HTML page within the vb button script editor and have it display properly when the button was clicked. In Mach4, I would like to use the same HTML page. Is there a way to call that page up in a new window without having to rewrite the page in lua? I know I'm looking for the easy way out here, but why do I need to re-invent the wheel/fix what's not broken? (if possible)