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General Mach Discussion / simple macro not working,

« on: February 19, 2019, 01:05:55 PM »

I have made a simple macro for mach3 to move my z down by .0001 but this script does not seem to be working
I have named it M100.m1s I made it in text editor and vb script editor. but it does not seem to run, what am I doing wrong?
it does work when I run it in vb script editor but not when i run it from mdi

thnaks
jerry

code "g91"
code "g0 z-.0001"
'While IsMoving()
code "g90" 
'Wend

   
   

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Mach4 General Discussion / probing with Mach4??????

« on: January 15, 2016, 02:37:00 PM »

I have mach4 up and running with a hicon board, I have my probe working,( LED lights up when activated, ) I have motin, ( I can run gcode) but when I go to the probing page, and click measure Z
I get a ERROR: invalid gcode. I have searched and researched but I can not figure out how to get this to work. I can do a g31 z-5 f10 and that works as well. it seems to be something wrong with the measure z??  mach 4 ver 4.2.0.2803
I coiuld use some help or a place to start looking

thanks

jerry

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HiCON Motion Controller / hicon NOT following the gcode losing position

« on: December 24, 2015, 03:30:30 PM »

I am trying to do a large v carve project. I have my flat depth set at  -.0800”     so the z axis should never go below that. (-.0800”)
The program starts to run and as it does the z keeps getting deeper and deeper. this gets worst as the program runs.     I stopped the gcode and the last z command says -.0800 but the DRO is reading -.0982 WTF???
Mach3 ver. R3.043.066   Hicon plug in ver 1.36.7    Firmware 2.42

N295640G1X74.6586Y20.9157Z-0.0800
N295650G1X74.6696Y20.9204
N295660G1X74.6836Y20.9283
N295670G1X74.6960Y20.9370
N295680G1X74.7042Y20.9444
N295690G1X74.7112Y20.9521
N295700G1X74.7168Y20.9599


 Look at the gcode below you can see the code showing a depth of  -.0800 but the DRO
Is showing -.0982 WTF??? I have attached the gcode as well

Mach3 ver. R3.043.066   Hicon plug in ver 1.36.7    Firmware 2.42

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HiCON Motion Controller / Active low probe / touch plate

« on: November 01, 2015, 11:54:13 AM »

I am converting this system from a c11 board to a hicon, on the c11 I had the port when it saw ground it would activate, (active low)
but the hicon seem to only activate when it sees voltage (active high)... how do I get  a port to activate when it sees ground?

jerry

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HiCON Motion Controller / hicon session id mismatch

« on: October 31, 2015, 04:27:53 PM »

I have my hicon hooked up to power 24vdc and 5vdc and hooked up to the ethernet and can see the hicon at ip 1921.168.0.35.
but when I start mach3 I get and error:

Sat - 15:09:06 ---HiCON: Plugin: 1.36.7, Board: 7766, FW 3.12, Serial 8BD8FC, FPGA: 7E7B, IP 192.168.0.35
Sat - 15:09:07 ---ERROR: Connection to HiCON lost. Session ID Mismatch
I have tested my cable and it checks out fine
CPU led double flashes red
+24v led is green
ARM  led off
+5v  led green


What am I missing??

Jerry