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Mach Screens / Mach Turn Hot key HELP
« on: December 28, 2015, 10:08:26 PM »
Hi Guys,

I'm new to the Mach support site although I can't tell you how much information I read on this site. I seem to have a problem that I'm sure that is my fault so here goes.

I'm using Mach 3 turn on my lathe and have made a dedicated control out of various parts.

For the joysticks and the buttons I'm using a 2 person arcade controller that I purchased on e bay.

So here is my problem.

I got the joystick and most of the buttons to work by using the Keygrabber program that was in the mach 3 download

example


button 1 (cycle start)  translated to 65 A
button 2 (Stop)  translated to 32 space
button 3 (single block) translated to 2131 <ALT>S
and so on.

So far I have the following buttons working correctly

Cycle start
Stop
Single block
Rewind
Coolant
Jog Inc.
Jog Cycle

I found the hotkeys on the Wiki page.

I can't figure out how to do the following

Zero the X DRO with a button
Zero the Z DRO with a button
Reset with a button
Feed up with a button
Feed down with a button

I tried using the screen 4 program and was able to zero the X and Z by assigning the Part Zero buttons a keyboard command and then assigning the same command to the respective buttons in keygrabber only to find out that after I messed with the load screen the wizards were all for the Mill instead of the lathe. Of course I didn't make a backup and ended up having to delete/uninstall everything and start over.

I apologize in advance if this is a NUB question but I have searched everywhere and can't come up with anything.

Thanks in advance

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